Beeston, Norfolk

Beeston

Beeston Primary School
Beeston
Beeston shown within Norfolk
Population 566 
Civil parish
  • Beeston with Bittering
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town KING'S LYNN
Postcode district PE32
EU Parliament East of England

Beeston is a village in the county of Norfolk, England, in the civil parish of Beeston with Bittering , west of East Dereham and south of Fakenham. It may also be known as Beeston All Saints or Beeston-next-Mileham to distinguish it from the three other villages in Norfolk named Beeston.

Sir William Calthorpe made presentations to the rectory of Beeston in 1460, 1481, and 1492.[1]

Keith Skipper, the Eastern Daily Press journalist and champion of the Norfolk dialect, was born in the village.

Beeston won EDP's Village of the Year.

References

  1. The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1963/4, by William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, edited by Charles A. Northcliffe, M.A., of Langton, London, 1881, p. 295
  • Francis White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk (1845, reprinted 1969) p. 327.

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