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Ketteringham, Norfolk

Historical Description

Ketteringham, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 1¼ mile SSW of Hethersett station on the G.E.R., and 6 miles SW of Norwich, and has a post office under Wymondham; money order and telegraph office, Hethersett. The parish comprises 1609 acres; population, 208. The manor belonged at the Conquest to Robert de Vaux, passed to the Greys, the Hevinghams, and the Atkynses, and belongs now to the Boileau family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value,, £144. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style. It contains several interesting ancient tombs and monuments. Ketteringham Hall, the property of the Boileau family, is a fine castellated mansion standing in a well-timbered park of 500 acres.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishKetteringham St. Peter 
HundredHumbleyard 
Poor Law unionHenstead 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.

Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Ketteringham:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1558-19051558-19051560-18371558-1812


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ketteringham from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Ketteringham are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictSouth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR18
Post TownWymondham

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