Guestwick
| Guestwick | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St Peter's Church, Guestwick | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG061269 |
| Location: | 52°48’4"N, 1°3’26"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 210 (2021) |
| Post town: | Dereham |
| Postcode: | NR20 |
| Dialling code: | 01362 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broadland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broadland and Fakenham |
Guestwick is a village in Norfolk, ten miles west of Aylsham and 19 miles north-west of Norwich.
The wider civil parish also includes the hamlet of Guestwick Green. The 2021 census recorded Guestwick's population of 210.
History
Guestwick's name is of Viking origin and derives from the Old Norse for Guist's clearing.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Guestwick is listed as a settlement of 20 households Eynsford Hundred. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of William, Bishop of Thetford and Hagni the Reeve.[2]
In 1652, a Congregationalist Chapel was built in the parish which was re-built in 1840 and converted into a private dwelling in the 1990s.[3] The chapel was one of the oldest in England and the minister was once John Godwin, the father of William Godwin and grandfather of Mary Shelley.[4]
Railway embankments and infrastructure are still visible from the old North Norfolk Railway.[5]
Parish church
Guestwick's parish church, St Peter, on Church Lane, dates from the 12th century. It is a Grade I listed building.[6] The church is part of the Heart of Norfolk Churches Benefice.[7]
St. Peter's was restored in the Victorian era but still retains its fifteenth century font. The church holds a good collection of fifteenth Century stained-glass and some stained-glass wildlife installed by Adam O'Grady in 2000.[8]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Guestwick) |
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ Guestwick in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "mnf13124 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf13124.
- ↑ Mee, Arthur (1972). Norfolk. Internet Archive. London, Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-15061-0. https://archive.org/details/norfolk0000meea/mode/2up.
- ↑ "mnf13584 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf13584.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1050963: Church of St Peter, Guestwick (Grade I listing)
- ↑ "Guestwick: St Peter" (in en). https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/10055/service-and-events/events-all/.
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/guestwick/guestwick.htm.