Garveston or Garston, Norfolk
Historical Description
Garveston or Garston, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village (locally pronounced Gare-son) stands three-fourths of a mile W of Thuxton station on the G.E.R., and 5 miles SSE of East Dereham, and has a post office of the name of Garveston under Attleborough; money order office, Thuxton; telegraph office, Yaxham. The parish comprises. 823 acres; population, 322. The right of lord of the manor was decided in the time of King Edward by the tenants in single combat. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, under £190 with residence. The-church is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style, has an embattled tower and an old font, and is good. The-tower is a beautiful object for miles round. There is a. j Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Garvestone St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Mitford | |
Poor Law union | Mitford and Launditch |
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 Garveston with Thuxton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1875 | 1538-1875 | 1539-1837 | 1561-1903 |
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 Garveston or Garston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Garvestone (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Garveston or Garston are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.