Rogers' Directory of Norwich and Neighbourhood

by Edmund Dawson Rogers

Hearne, Matthew, farmer

Horne, W., shopkeeper, and postmaster

Lincoln, Robert, bricklayer

Lincoln, Robert, jun., bricklayer

Pearce, Joshua, The Lion

Seago, Jeremiah, farmer

Tillett, John, farmer

Webster, David, farmer

Westrup, Philip, farmer

SWARDESTON, in Humbleyard hundred and Henstead union, near the Swainsthorpe station, and 4 miles from Norwich, contains 950 acres of land, and, in 1851, a population of 381. The living is a vicarage; the Rev. John Henry Steward, M.A., of East Carleton, is patron and incumbent, and the Rev. Henry Steward, B.A., curate. There is a chapel for the Wesleyans; and a village school for boys and girls, under the superintendence of the clergy. The Rev. J. H. Steward, M.A., and Robert Palmer Kemp, Esq., of Coltishall, are the chief landowners.