Beeston St Andrew, Norfolk

Historical Description

Beeston-St-Andrew, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 2½ miles from Salhouse station on the G.E.R., and 3½ NE from Norwich, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Old Catton. Acreage, 635; population, 56. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £90. The church is in ruins, only the foundations being left.

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 County	Norfolk
Ecclesiastical parish	Beeston St. Andrew
Hundred	Taverham
Poor Law union	St. Faiths

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 Beeston next Mileham:

Baptisms	Banns	Marriages	Burials
1538-1848	1538-1848	1538-1901	1538-1883

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Beeston St Andrew from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beeston (St. Andrew))

Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

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