Testerton, Norfolk

Historical Description

Testerton, a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles from Ryburgh station on the G.E.R. Post town, Fakenham; money order and telegraph office, Great Ryburgh. Acreage, 622; population, 24. Testerton House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. The church is in ruins. The inhabitants attend Colkirk Church.

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	Testerton St. Remigius
Hundred	Gallow
Poor Law union	Walsingham

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 Testerton from the following:

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

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.