Crostwick

Human settlement in England

Crostwick

District

Broadland

Norfolk

Region

East

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List of places: UK; England; Norfolk

52°41′50″N 1°20′24″E / 52.69724°N 1.34011°E / 52.69724; 1.34011

Crostwick is a village in the English county of Norfolk. The village is part of the civil parish of Horstead with Stanninghall. Crostwick is located 2.6 miles from Wroxham and 5.2 miles from Norwich.

History

Crostwick's name is of Viking origin and derives from the Old Norse for a clearing around a cross.^[1]

In the Domesday Book, Crostwick is listed as a settlement of 14 households in the hundred of Taverham. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Ralph de Beaufour and Roger de Poitou.^[2]

Geography

Crostwick falls within the constituency of Broadland and is represented at Parliament by Jerome Mayhew MP of the Conservative Party.

St. Peter's Church

Crostwick's parish church is of Norman origin and dedicated to Saint Peter. The church was significantly remodelled in the Nineteenth Century and has a carved font from the same period depicting several saints. The church also features examples of stained glass by William Wailes in 1853 and later restored in the Twentieth Century by King & Sons.^[3]

War memorial

Crostwick's and Beeston's war memorial is located close to the North Walsham Road and takes the form of a rough-hewn stone Celtic cross. The memorial lists the following names as fallen from both villages during the First World War:

Second-Lieutenant John D. Patteson (1889–1914), 5th Dragoon Guards
Corporal Walter J. Sandy (1896–1918), 5th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Corporal Robert J. Parfitt (d.1917), 8th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Private Frederick A. Thaxton (1890–1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Henry J. Holmes (1884–1917), 1/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
James Coffin

And, the following for the Second World War:

Petty-Officer Claude R. Goymer (1903–1940), HMS Patroclus
Walter E. Dix

Notes

^ University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved December 22, 2022. e
^ Domesday Book. (1086). Retrieved December 22, 2022. https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2515/crostwick/
^ Knott, S. (2019). Retrieved December 22, 2022. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/crostwick/crostwick.htm