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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.

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 parishKirstead St. Margaret 
HundredLoddon 
Poor Law unionLoddon and Clavering 
Registration districtMid Glamorgan1970 - 1974

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 Kirstead with Langhale:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1663-19011663-19011663-19011648-1897


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:


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.

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