Kettlestone is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the
English county of
Norfolk
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.
It covers an area of and had a population of 177 in 85 households at the
2001 census, increasing to 197 at the 2011 Census.
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the
district
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of
North Norfolk.
It is situated about to the east of the
market
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*Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand
*Market economy
*Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market
Geography
*Märket, an ...
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Fakenham
Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Wensum, about north west of Norwich. The town is the junction of several local roads, including the A148 from King's Lynn to Cromer, the A1067 to Norw ...
. The village has several farms and a small church. Also included in the parish is Pensthorpe home of the
Pensthorpe Nature Reserve.
Kettlestone Parish Council Retrieved 24 October 2008 The village is broadly aligned east to west about a single street with houses mainly to the north.
History
The villages name means 'Ketil's farm/settlement'.
The village dates back to the time of the ''Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...
''. The village church is built of the local flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and sta ...
stone and is thought to date from the 13th century. The tower which dates from the 14th century is unusual for Norfolk in that it is octagonal (Norfolk churches tend to have square towers, or occasionally round towers). The church was extensively restored in the Victorian period
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, work being completed in 1871. Inside the church is a 500-year-old Baptismal font, font with shields showing the lion and the fleur-de-lys of England and France, the keys of Saint Peter, Peter and the swords of Paul of Tarsus, Paul, the arms of the Episcopal see, see of Norwich (the church is within the Anglican Diocese of Norwich), and the emblem of the Trinity.
A memorial in the church to William Newman tells us that in thanks for the kindness shown to him when he was brought up here as a poor London boy in the 18th century he left £500 to the poor of Kettlestone forever.
The lychgate is a 20th-century memorial to James Cory, Rector (ecclesiastical), rector of Kettlestone for 68 years until his death in 1864, who is buried in the churchyard. He began as rector in 1796, and hence was preaching during the French Revolution, Battle of Trafalgar, Trafalgar and Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny.
Notes
External links
Kettlestone Parish Council website https://web.archive.org/web/20110725051753/http://www.norfolkrcc.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Kettlestone_Parish_Council
References
# Much of this material is mentioned in THE KING'S ENGLAND – NORFOLK – Green Pastures and Still Waters, edited by Arthur Mee, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1940.
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Kettlestone
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Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
North Norfolk