Kettlestone
| Kettlestone | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4580421.jpg) Kettlestone Village Sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF968317 |
| Location: | 52°50’50"N, 0°55’20"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 193 (2021) |
| Post town: | Fakenham |
| Postcode: | NR21 |
| Dialling code: | 01328 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broadland and Fakenham |
Kettlestone is a village in Norfolk, five miles east of Fakenham and 22 miles north-west of Norwich.
The wider civil parish also includes the hamlet of Pensthorpe and at the 2021 census had a recorded a population of 193.
History
Kelling's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for 'Ketil's settlement'.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Kettlestone is listed as a settlement of four households and part of the estates of William de Warenne.[2]
The body of a man by the name of William Anthony was gibbeted at Gibbet Piece (TF96012919) on Kettlestone Common from around March 1792.[3][4] His bones remained in the gibbet for decades, being the subject of a painting in 1822. In 1830 the bones were buried, the gibbet was dismantled, and its wood was made into gates for the porch of the nearby church which themselves no longer survive.
In 1958, an observation post for the Royal Observer Corps was built in the parish which closed ten years later.[5]
All Saints' Church
Kettlestone's parish church, All Saints, on The Street, has a late-13th or early-14th century octagonal tower, one of only six of this shape in Norfolk.[6] All Saints holds numerous memorials from the 18th century.[7] Its south porch and chancel dates from the 19th century and was built by Frederick Preedy. It is a Grade II listed building.[8] The church is no longer open for Sunday service and is part of the Way-Maker Benefice.[9]
About the village
Pensthorpe Natural Park is located in the parish, along the River Wensum.
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ Kettlestone in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Tarlow, Sarah (2017). "Appendix 1: All Cases of Hanging in Chains" (in en). The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 119–133. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-60089-9. ISBN 978-1-137-60088-2. http://link.springer.com/10.1057/978-1-137-60089-9.
- ↑ "Site of a post mediæval gibbet". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF12692.
- ↑ "mnf25992 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details.
- ↑ Mortlock, D. P.; Roberts, C. V. (2017). The Guide to Norfolk Churches: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition. Havertown: The Lutterworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7188-9511-2.
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/kettlestone/kettlestone.htm.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1049261: Kettlestone
- ↑ "Kettlestone Church" (in en). 2025-06-11. https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/10291/service-and-events/events-all/.