O S T E S S E Y

THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED
TO :

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Saint Walstan,
Patron Saint of Farm Workers
*
and to the Agricultural Labourers of the Nineteenth century,
.... a large proportion of the People of England, who were absent- and have largely remained absent- from the picture.
They were the hinds, the yokels, the swede- bashers, the whop-straws, the chaw-bacons, the clod-hoppers, the country bumpkins, and their wives and children. On their labours - the wealth of the nation was ultimately founded ; they were the main stay of the Army .... the men who defeated Bonaparte .....
...AND LIKE IT OR NOT THEY WERE ALSO, AT NO VERY GREAT DISTANCE IN TIME, THE PROGENITORS OF SO MANY OF US TODAY,
WHO ARE OF ENGLISH DESCENT.
Acknowledgements to Harry Hopkins, author of "The Long Affray'- PAPERMAC, London 1986

* discover much more about Saint Walstan by reading :-
'' IN SEARCH OF ST. WALSTAN '' by Carol Twinch,
publ. Media Associates ,Norwich, Norfolk, 1995.

INTERESTING LINKS

A Link to the English Parliament Website

A LINK TO THE "SHOT AT DAWN CAMPAIGN"

Norfolk Mills

COSTESSEY is a member of The British and Irish Villages Webring
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T he background music is a hymn often sung
in th e Sunday Schools in Costessey in my childhood :

For the beautyof the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Gracious God, to thee we raiseThis our sacrifice of praise.

INDEX

1. Description of Costessey in 1841.

2. People and events through the centuries-Part 1 to 1555

3. People and events through the centuries - Part 2 from 1555
                       3.1        John Culley -Miller & Farmer
                       3.2         Richard Bacon - Newspaper Proprietor
                       3.3         Rev. F C Husenbeth - Parish Priest & Author

4. The JERNINGHAM / STAFFORD Family & the Catholic Faith

4.1 Costessey Old Hall

5. NORFOLK LINKS

6. A Link to the history of Costessey Mill (courtesy Jonathon Neville)

7 .Birds in Costessey in 1941-1946

8. Walstan - Costessey's Special Christian name

9. Saint Walstan of Bawburgh, Taverham & Costessey

10. How Costessey People Dispersed

                                      The Curse of the Pheasant

11. Costessey Poachers in 19th century

12. Costessey Poachers in the 20th century

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<>The Hall in the mid 19th Century
From 1826-36 J.C. Buckler produced a Gothic fantasy for Lord Stafford which dwarfed the orginal the Elizabethan hall; it was a superb folly with gables turrets, pinnacles and chimneys all dominated by a massive keep........this extravaganza has perished.
----"The Norfolk Landscape" by David Dymond 1984

Costessey Park is now owned by
LJ Technical Systems
who are planning to restore the 15th Century Dower house and outbuildings of Home Farm and reroof the belfry, the only remaining part of the Hall.
They have planted a large number of trees in the Park
(LJ Technical Systems is one of the worlds leading suppliers of turn-key education solutions.)

Costessey Park Golf Course Web Site
and
LJ Technical Systems at Costessey
and
More on Costessey Hall
These are LJ Systems sites

The Church of St. Edmund, King and Martyr

"The Bush Inn " Costessey
by Alfred Munnings , 1910.

1 887-1959 Sir Alfred Munnings K.C.V.O
Artist, Past President of the Royal Academy

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<>SEE MAP OF COSTESSEY
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<>has been lost to the people in Costessey
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On visits to my native village on 3 June 1995 and 11th March 1999
we went to walk the footpath from Cossey Mill to the footbridge over to Drayton and found it marked :
and
How did this Common Land from Time immemorial get taken away from the People of the Village ?
There are, I estimate, about 15 miles of river bank in Costessey on one bank of the Wensum and both banks of the Tud.. How much of this is dedicated to footpaths for the villagers to enjoy ?
Perhaps someone could answer this question for me.

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now living in Western Australia who was born in Costessey and whose ancestors lived there for many generations.

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