Place:Hethersett, Norfolk, England

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Hethersett is a large village and electoral ward in the county of Norfolk, England, about 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Norwich. It covers an area of 4.22 sq mi (10.9 km2) and had a population of 5,441 in 2,321 households at the 2001 UK census, increasing to 5,691 at the 2011 UK census.

The [civil] Parish of Hethersett is, by Norfolk standards, a large one, covering 2,695 acres; it was the main settlement in the ancient Hundred of Humbleyard; it lies in the Deanery of Humbleyard and in the South Norfolk District.

Hethersett stretched three miles from east to west along the line of the B1172 (the old Norwich to London road) and two miles from northwest to southeast. The road cuts it into slightly larger northern and smaller southern divisions; the Norwich to Cambridge railway follows its southern boundary but otherwise the parish has no obvious physical limits and presumably represents the land needed to feed the Saxon settlements that grew up in the area.

From the west, moving in a clockwise direction, the parishes contiguous with this are those of Wymondham, Great Melton, Little Melton, Colney, Cringleford, Intwood (now part of Keswick) and Ketteringham.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Hethersett#History. This is just the start of a long well-written history of Hethersett covering the time from Domesday (1086) forward to the 20th century.

Canteloff

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

"CANTELOFF, an ancient parish, now incorporated with Hethersett parish, in Norfolk; but still ranking as a distinct rectory, annexed to the rectory of Hethersett."

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