Keswick, Norfolk
Historical Description
Keswick, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Tare, 3 miles SSW from Norwich, and 2 from Hethersett station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Eaton. Acreage, 741; population of the civil parish, 187; of the ecclesiastical, with Intwood, 249. The manor, with Keswick Hall, belongs to the Gurney family, and the Old Hall, an ancient mansion, has been their property for nearly a century and a half. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Intwood, in the diocese of Norwich. A round tower and part of walls at chancel end, picturesquely grouped with lofty trees on an elevated spot, are the only extant portions of the church. In 1894 a mortuary chapel was erected in the ruin at the expense of J. H. Gurney, Esq., the old churchyard being reopened for burial.
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 | Keswick St. Mary | |
Hundred | Humbleyard | |
Poor Law union | Henstead |
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.
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 Keswick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Keswick (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Keswick 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.