Place:Kirstead, Norfolk, England

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Kirstead is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

The main settlement is Kirstead Green. The parish covers an area of 4.19 km2 (1.62 sq mi) and had a population of 247 in 89 households at the 2001 UK census, the population increasing to 279 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of South Norfolk.

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

"KIRSTEAD, a village and a parish in Loddon [registration] district, Norfolk. The village stands 4¼ miles W of Loddon, and 5½ ESE of Swainsthorpe [railway] station; and has a postoffice under Norwich.

"The parish includes the quondam parish of Langhale, and is sometimes called Kirstead-with-Langhale. Acres: 1,011. Real property: £1,794. Population: 245. Houses: 52. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to G. S. Kett, Esq. Langhale House is the seat of Kerrison, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Langhale, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £326.* Patron: Caius 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."

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Kirstead.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Kirstead. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Loddon Hundred may be useful.
• 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.