Place:Crostwick, Norfolk, England

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Crostwick is a village and civil parish in the District of Broadland in Norfolk, England. At the time of 2011 census the population was less than 100 and was included with that of the neighbouring civil parish of Horstead with Stanninghall.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Crostwick from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"CROSTWICK, a parish in St. Faith [registration] district, Norfolk; on an affluent of the river Bure, near the line of the projected railway from Norwich to Cromer, 4½ miles NNE of Norwich. It has a post office under Norwich. Acres: 690. Real property: £1, 467. Population: 144. Houses: 29. The property is divided among a few. Most of the houses stand round a fine common of 30 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £192. Patron: the Bishop of Norwich. The church is later. English; consists of nave and chancel, with a tower; and was recently restored. There is a national school."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Crostwick. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Taverham Hundred. Parishes labelled with letters should be identifiable from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1900.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.