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SWARDESTON, 4 miles S.S.W. of Norwich, is a pleasant village and parish, containing 359 souls, and about 900 acres of land, in two manors, called Swardeston and Gowthorpe. Hudson Gurney, Esq., is lord of the former, and the Rev. J.H. Steward of the latter; but part of the soil belongs to R.K. Long, Esq., J.T. and R.P. Kemp, Esqrs., and several smaller owners. Swardeston Rectory, built by the Hobart family, was mostly rebuilt some years ago, by its owner and occupant, J.T. Kemp, Esq., the impropriator.
The Hall Farm, formerly a seat of the Berneys, is the tithe-free estate of the Rev. J.H. Steward, of East Carlton, the patron and incumbent of the vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6, and augmented with £800 of Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1800 and 1819, and £200 given by J. Steward, Esq., in the latter year. The CHURCH (Virgin Mary,) is a neat edifice, with an embattled tower and four bells. In its windows are some fragments of ancient stained glass. It has a beautiful screen, and contains memorials of the Marsh, Kemp, and Berney families.
Mangreen Hall, now a farm-house, belongs to R.K. Long, Esq.
DIRECTORY:-
Arundell Saml. cooper Bell Rev. Geo. curate Brown Peter vict., Dog Brown Robert bricklayer Cannell Henry gardener Cannell Isaac blacksmith Davy Barnard blacksmith Hall Jas. carpenter Hubbard John gardener Jeffreys Robert butcher Kemp John Turner, Esq. Rectory Mortimer Eleanor schoolmrs. Whitaker Wm. gardener farmers. Beverley Wm. King Robert Bond Robert Lincoln Edmund Bush George Twiss Chpr.
Copyright © Pat Newby.
August 2008