Norfolk: Cawston

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Cawston is about 4 miles W.S.W. of Aylsham.
It includes the hamlets of Eastgate, Southgate, and Woodrow.

Cemeteries

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Census

1841: Surname List. This is a link to an archived copy.
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Ingworth, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to St Agnes.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Agnes: Services, description and picture.
Church of St Agnes: Description, history and pictures.
Church of St Agnes: Description, history and pictures.
Church of St Agnes: Description, history and pictures.
Church of St Agnes: Pictures of the church.
Ames, E.F.W.: Notes on the Church of St Agnes, Cawston.
[Cawston, The Church, 1962]
Kett, John: St Agnes Church, Cawston: Notes on the history of the church.
[Cawston, The Church, 1970s]
Wilkins, Felicity: St Agnes, Cawston.
[Cawston, The Church, 1982]
Church of St Agnes: Wall paintings in the church.
Bulwer, James: Notice of a mural painting discovered in the south transept of Cawston Church.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.3, 1852]
Cawston Methodist Church: Minister, services, location, description, picture, etc.
Cawston Wesleyan Reform Church: Services, address and pictures.

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms, Banns, Marriages and Burials.
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Cawston was in Aylsham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Cawston Parish: Description, history, pictures, parish council, maps, organisations, etc.
Kett, John: Yesterday's Children: Tales of Cawston's past.
[Cawston Village Hall, 1980]
Pictures of old Cawston: From the Frith Collection.
Cawston Smock Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Cawston Sygate Black Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Cawston Sygate White Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Gazetteers and Directories

Cawston is in South Erpingham hundred.

History

Amussen, Susan Dwyer: A Norfolk village: Cawston 1595-1605.
[History Today 36, April 1986]
Rye, Walter: An Account of the Church and Parish of Cawston, in the county of Norfolk.
[Norwich, Agas H. Goose, 1898]

Maps

Map of Cawston: Streets, buildings, etc.
Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Aylsham Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Cawston became part of the Aylsham Union, and the workhouses were at Buxton and Oulton. These were replaced by a new workhouse at Aylsham in 1849.

Schools

Cawston Schools: Description, history and pictures.

Societies

Cawston Historical Society: Meetings, archives, etc

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