1800-1900
In the early 19th Century, Hethersett Hall was built and its attractive park and ornamental lake laid out by the Back family. The Hill House estate was laid out in the 1780s by a Mr Brown. Perhaps the greatest change of all came as a result of the enclosure award of 1799 when Lynch Green was divided up and disappeared as an open space, although the tithe map shows that there were still only a few houses along Mill Road and Great Melton Road in 1844.
In "Victorian Miniature", Owen Chadwick gives us a detailed account of life in the area in the middle of the 19th Century. The Rev William Waite Andrew, the Vicar of Ketteringham and one of the two central characters in the book, lived at Woodhall which he bought for £3,600 in 1841, and to which he added a new western extension.
In the 19th Century, village crafts and small industries employed a number of men locally; two windmills existed, one giving the name to Mill Road. Three smithies existed in the village in the 1880s and carriages were built at Harveys. There was a brickyard in Queen's Road. The railway lasted 120 years; it arrived as the Norwich and Brandon Railway in 1846, but was closed to passengers in 1966.
In 1801 Hethersett had a population of 696 (in 90 houses), by 1851 this number had nearly doubled, but it never reached this total again until 1931; since then and especially in the last 20 years or so, Hethersett's population has risen to over 5,000. It is now as large as some of Norfolk's market towns. During the past seven years the Steepletower site near the parish church has expanded rapidly; by 1995 abut 360 dwellings had been completed out of a projected figure of 520.
In 1858, the stonework of St Remigius Church was restored and the church refitted with open benches, oak pulpit, etc., at a cost of £1200, raised by subscription. Henry Back, J. H. Gurney and the rector were the largest contributors, the former also restoring the belfry, recasting one bell, and the latter, restoring the south porch and the two altar tombs.
Mr. Back gave the organ in 1874. There are several memorials inside the church, one of the most striking being that of John Luke Iselin in the form of a black slab of marble in the central aisle of the nave. He was a native of Basel in Switzerland, came to this country in the 1770s and who applied for naturalisation in 1772 after making a success as partner of a wool stapling business.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, body snatchers were active in acquiring bodies for anatomical dissection. There is a report that on the 2nd February, 1825, "A body of an old man, buried in Hethersett churchyard was stolen by resurrection men."
Hethersett Horticultural Society Founded
In "Victorian Miniature", Owen Chadwick gives us a detailed account of life in the area in the middle of the 19th Century. The Rev William Waite Andrew, the Vicar of Ketteringham and one of the two central characters in the book, lived at Woodhall which he bought for £3,600 in 1841, and to which he added a new western extension.
In the 19th Century, village crafts and small industries employed a number of men locally; two windmills existed, one giving the name to Mill Road. Three smithies existed in the village in the 1880s and carriages were built at Harveys. There was a brickyard in Queen's Road. The railway lasted 120 years; it arrived as the Norwich and Brandon Railway in 1846, but was closed to passengers in 1966.
In 1801 Hethersett had a population of 696 (in 90 houses), by 1851 this number had nearly doubled, but it never reached this total again until 1931; since then and especially in the last 20 years or so, Hethersett's population has risen to over 5,000. It is now as large as some of Norfolk's market towns. During the past seven years the Steepletower site near the parish church has expanded rapidly; by 1995 abut 360 dwellings had been completed out of a projected figure of 520.
In 1858, the stonework of St Remigius Church was restored and the church refitted with open benches, oak pulpit, etc., at a cost of £1200, raised by subscription. Henry Back, J. H. Gurney and the rector were the largest contributors, the former also restoring the belfry, recasting one bell, and the latter, restoring the south porch and the two altar tombs.
Mr. Back gave the organ in 1874. There are several memorials inside the church, one of the most striking being that of John Luke Iselin in the form of a black slab of marble in the central aisle of the nave. He was a native of Basel in Switzerland, came to this country in the 1770s and who applied for naturalisation in 1772 after making a success as partner of a wool stapling business.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, body snatchers were active in acquiring bodies for anatomical dissection. There is a report that on the 2nd February, 1825, "A body of an old man, buried in Hethersett churchyard was stolen by resurrection men."
Hethersett Horticultural Society Founded