Place:Guestwick, Norfolk, England

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Guestwick is a village and a civil parish in Norfolk, England. The village is 19.6 miles (31.5 km) southwest of Cromer, 18.7 miles (30.1 km) northwest of Norwich and 131 miles (211 km) northeast of London. The village lies 10.2 miles (16.4 km) west of the nearby town of Aylsham. The village lies far from any main roads. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich.

There are two settlements that make up the parish of Guestwick. Guestwick Green in the southwest of the parish and Guestwick which is centered on the parish church of Saint Peter. In the parish there is a scattering of farms and isolated properties. Guestwick largely relies on nearby settlements of Foulsham and Reepham for its facilities.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Guestwick. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Eynesford or Eynsford 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.CategoryBroadland District, Norfolk, England