Description
Cawston, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on a pleasant spot, near an affluent of the river Wensum, 4 miles WSW of Aylsham, and has a station of the same name on the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Norwich, and a telegraph office at Cawston railway station. It has fairs on 1 February and the last Wednesday in April and August. The parish comprises 4361 acres; population, 1068. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £700 with residence. Patron, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. The church is Decorated Perpendicular, and has one of the finest hammer-beam roofs in the eastern counties. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
