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.
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 | Ketteringham St. Peter | |
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.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Ketteringham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1905 | 1558-1905 | 1560-1837 | 1558-1812 |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ketteringham (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Ketteringham 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.