Rogers' Directory of Norwich and Neighbourhood

by Edmund Dawson Rogers

Smith, Timothy, farmer

Sturgess, Elizabeth, school-mistress

Sturgess, William, school-master

Tann, Samuel, wheelwright

Tyler, John, shopkeeper

BEESTON ST. ANDREW, in Taverham hundred. 3 miles north of Norwich, contains three farms and a few cottages. The Old Hall was built in 1610, and is still standing. The chief part of the land belongs to the Rev. J. N. Micklethwait and O. Barnes, Esq. Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., is lord of the manor. There is no church, but a sinecure rectory, in the patronage of the Rev. Henry Banfather, who is also the incumbent. The population, in 1851, was 41.

Barnes, Orlando, farmer

Bowen, Thomas, farmer

Howlett, Harcourt, farmer

Gowen, Abraham, gardener