Norfolk: Costessey

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Costessey is about 4 miles W.N.W. of Norwich.
The name is pronounced, and may also be spelled, Cossey.

Cemeteries

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Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Hingham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church in Old Costessey is dedicated to St Edmund.
The parish church in New Costessey is dedicated to St Helen.
There is also a Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to St Walstan.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Edmund, Old Costessey: Minister, services, location, etc.
Maurice, David Powys: The Parish and Church of St Edmund, Costessey.
[Church Publishers, 1960s]
Church of St Helen, New Costessey: Minister, services, location, etc.
Jerningham, Stafford H.: Costessey: A few brief notes on the doings of Catholics at Costessey down to 1809.
Centenary celebration of St Augustine's Chapel, Costessey Park, 1909.
[Privately published, 1909]
Jolly, W.T.F: An Account of St Walstan's Costessey.
[King's Lynn, G.P. and M. Broughton, 1974]
Costessey Baptist Church: Description, meetings, pictures, etc.
Costessey Methodist Church: Minister, services, location, picture, etc.

Church Records

Archdeacon's Transcripts or Bishop's Transcripts: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Smith, John Peter: The Catholic Registers of Costessey or Cossey Hall, Norfolk: the seat of the Jerningham family, baronets: 1785-1821.
[Catholic Record Society Miscellanea XII, 1921]

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

Costesssey. This is a link to an archived copy.: Description, history, events, people, map, etc.
Costesssey: Parish plan, etc.
Costessey Post Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Costessey Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Gazetteers and Directories

Costessey is in Forehoe hundred.

History

Gage, Ernest G.: Costessey: A Look into the Past.
[ISBN 0954211308, Norwich, 2002]
Norgate, Thomas Bladwell: The History of Costessey.
[ISBN 0950102628, 1972]

Land and Property

Author unknown: Old Costessey: a study of village settlement on the fringe of Norwich.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, University of London Thesis, 1965]
Gunton, Henry E.: Old Properties in Costessey.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 1960s]
Costessey Hall: Description and pictures.
Gage, Ernest G.: Costessey Hall: a retrospect of the Jernegans, Jerninghams and Stafford Jerninghams of Costessey Hall.
[ISBN 0951749404, Norwich; Colin L. House, 1991]
Gunton, Henry E.: Costessey Brickworks.
[London, Newcomen Society Vol XLI, 1969]
Lucas, Robin: Neo-Gothic, Neo-Tudor, Neo-Renaissance: the Costessey Brickyard. (Including Costessey Hall)
[Victorian Society journal, 1997]
Great Britain: Statute: Annual Inclosure Act, 1857.
An act to authorize the inclosure of certain lands (including Costessey, Holme-next-the-Sea, Hunstanton and Dersingham, for which provisional inclosure orders were made between 30 October and 4 December 1856) in pursuance of a report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales: 21st March 1857.
[London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1857]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Forehoe Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1776 Costessey became part of the Forehoe Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Wicklewood.

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