Keswick, Norfolk

Description
Keswick, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Tare, 3 miles SSW from Norwich, and 2 from Hethersett station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Eaton. Acreage, 741; population of the civil parish, 187; of the ecclesiastical, with Intwood, 249. The manor, with Keswick Hall, belongs to the Gurney family, and the Old Hall, an ancient mansion, has been their property for nearly a century and a half. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Intwood, in the diocese of Norwich. A round tower and part of walls at chancel end, picturesquely grouped with lofty trees on an elevated spot, are the only extant portions of the church. In 1894 a mortuary chapel was erected in the ruin at the expense of J. H. Gurney, Esq., the old churchyard being reopened for burial.