Kirstead or Kirstead with Langhale, Norfolk
Historical Description
Kirstead or Kirstead-with-Langhale, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 6 miles N from Ditchingham station, and 6 SE from Trowse station on the G.E.R., and 4¼ W of Loddon. Post town, Norwich; money order office, Brooke; telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage, 1034; population, 215. The manor belongs to the Garrod family. Kirstead Hall, a mansion dated 1614 is, now used as. a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory KIRTLING of Langhale, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £220 with residence. Patrons, Cains College, Cambridge. The church is Early English, was much altered, improved, and enlarged in 1864, and acquired then an apsidal chancel and a tower. A church was formerly at Langhale, but was a ruin in the time of James I.
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 | Kirstead St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Loddon | |
Poor Law union | Loddon and Clavering | |
Registration district | Mid Glamorgan | 1970 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
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Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Kirstead with Langhale:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1663-1901 | 1663-1901 | 1663-1901 | 1648-1897 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Kirstead or Kirstead with Langhale from 1970 to 1974 you should search for the Mid Glamorgan Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kirstead or Kirstead with Langhale from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kirstead (St. Margaret))
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.