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The above pages contain data, maps and many photos of the hamlet, both sometime and new.
This page contains anecdotes and memories sent in past visitors to this website
and they're well worth reading!

The Domesday book recorded Hempstead as beingness an outlier of the larger manor of Holt and Kelly's Directory of 1892 (amongst others) lists the hamlet every bit Hempstead-past-Holt . The directories, by means of inserting one incorrect comma, (the two latter are lords of the manors of Hempstead, Nether-Hall, and Lose-Hall.) list three manors within the parish when at that place were in fact only two - Hempstead_Losehall and Hempstead Netherhall.

The habit of putting up name plates for towns and villages dates from the early days of the motor machine, starting in 1907. There were several early on designs, but the most common is the well-known circular type with ''Automobile Association'' at the top, and the proper name in a blackness stripe across the middle. Over thirty,000 of these were erected, mostly in England, betwixt 1923 and 1939. The circular steel plate, was xxx'' in bore, enamelled with black lettering on a yellow background. The proper name ''Franco Signs, London W1'' usually appears at the bottom on the black edge. Distances to nearby towns and to London are given, calculated to the nearest quaker of a mile (!); the reference signal in London is said to be a marker set in the pavement on the edge of Trafalgar Square.
ln 1940 they were all taken down, along with every signpost or other guide which could help invading forces find their fashion effectually the country. Most were lost but a few were put up over again after the war.
ln front of the White_Horse_Inn (now ''Wayside'') was a small one thousand flanked to the southward by an outbuilding, since demolished, where the landlord kept his car. The sidewall of this shed ran close alongside the Street, and on this brick wall the sign was mounted.
The plate was kept for many years in Bob Mack's shed, (on Courtroom Green) and is at present handed to the village by his widow. Information technology has sustained many dents which have made the enamel scrap off, but the wording can all the same be read. Information technology has been cleaned upward carefully, and the yellows and blacks stand out, but though treated with inhibitor (''Waxoy1'') the exposed fe looks drab.
To safeguard it from vandals and collectors, information technology has at present been mounted in the village hall, where all can see it.
David Durst

HEMPSTEDE
Was a beruite to the King's manor ofHolt, with thirty acres; 5 borderers belonged to it with 1 carucate, and one-half a carucate of the tenants, &c. then valued at 5s. and 4d. and at the survey at 33southward. and 3d. and was one leuca long (approx 1½ miles) and one broad, and paid 7d. gelt.

A family, who took their proper name from this town, were early enfeoft of it. In the 29th ofHen. II.(1183) Simon de Hempstede andHamo his son quit claimed toHenry de Marisco and his heirs, the advowson of this church for 6 marks of silver, atNorthampton, beforeRalph Glaunvile, justiciary of the King,Roger, son ofReynfr. William Basset, andWilliam Mald, Camerar. Regis. ThisHamon, called besidesde Empstede, gave lands toCastleacre priory, lying nighHolt mill.

In the 24th ofHenry III. (1240) Richer, son ofHugh de Causton, andJulian his wife,Stephen de Causton, andBeatrice his wife, grant toSimon, prior ofNorwich, the advowson of this church and that ofPlumstede.

William de Ormesby andAgnes his wife, grant, in the 22d ofEdward I (1294) . toHenry, prior ofNorwich, the advowson of this church for 20l.; and in the said yr, settled by fine, onJohn their son, andCatharine his wife, this lordship, with that ofGestwyke, remainder toRobert andWilliam their sons; but some disputes arising about the right of this advowson, it was conveyed to the prior past another fine, in the 31st of that King, (1303) past the aforesaidWilliam andAgnes, later a solemn inquisition, when it was establish that the prior and his predecessors were possessed of it before the statute of mortmain.

In the said yr SirRobert de Hengham bought ofWilliam de Ormesby, andAgnes his wife, a_mill, with the pool inHemstede, with several villains, rents and services,William andAgnes, and the heirs ofAgnes, to have the liberty of first grinding therein, but not to erect any mill here.

William de Ormesby , by his human activity, dated atOuby, onThursday later the banquet of St.Paul, confirmed to SirRobert the grant of the watermill, calledWademill, with the pool inHenstede andHolt, with all the fishing, in as aplenty a manner every bitAgnes his mother and her ancestors ever had, paying 40due south. per ann. and SirJohn de Ormesby was lord in the 20th (1347) and 24th ofEdward III (1351) . and is said to hold information technology of the Earl ofAlbemarle.

In the 3d ofHenry IV (1402) . the LadyAlice Caley, relict of SirWilliam Caley, ofOby, had this lordship; and pastAgnes, one of their daughters and coheirs, information technology came to SirJh. de Harsike ofSouthacre, by marriage. SirRog. Harsike his son enjoyed information technology; and by the marriage ofJoan, 1 of his daughters and coheirs, information technology was brought toRichard Dorward, Esq. who possessed information technology in the 33d ofHen. Six (1455) .; from theDorwards it came by matrimony toJohn Wingfeld ofDunham Magna, andThomas Wingfeld andElizabeth his wife conveyed it by fine, in the 28th ofHenry VIII (1537) . toThomas Jermyn.

Mr.Newman, Gent. was lord, and his son,William Newman, Esq. ofBaconsthorp, was lord in 1720.
An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume ix
Originally published by W Miller, London, 1808

HEMPSTEAD, 2 miles South. East. of Holt, is a village and parish, in a hilly district, above the vale of the Glaven containing 286 inhabitants, and well-nigh 1500 acres, of which 100 are forest and plantations, mostly belonging to Lady Suffield, of Blickling, and H. and R. H. Gurney, Esqrs.; the ii latter are lords of the manors of Hempstead, Nether-Hall, and Lose-Hall. The CHURCH has a brick belfry, built in 1744, and is a vicarage, valued in K. B. at £ix. 6s. 8d., and augmented with £200 of Queen Anne's compensation, in 1792, laid out in state at Bodham, permit for £28 per annum. Hither is 15½A. of old glebe. The Rev. J. West. Methwold is incumbent, and the Dean and Chapter of Norwich are patrons and appropriators; just Lady Suffield is lessee of the tithes. In the vale of the Glaven is a large wild fowl decoy, belonging to Mr. Gurney.
White's 1836

Good Sometime Hempstead

I have been thinking recently about the village and the changes which accept taken identify since I was a kid in the 1930s, and decided to put pen to newspaper in instance anyone was interested. Visually, Chapel_Lane has inverse the most. 'The Knoll was a field on which at that place was a cricket pitch. Further upward on the same side was a modest wooden dwelling and then the two flint cottages. The Chapel was operative and the quango houses were also congenital. Opposite Wayside in the Street (then the pub) were allotments for the White Horse Cottage tenants. Of grade, the barns at Brownwood, Pine_Farm and Church_Farm look very different since they have been developed.

Life in the village revolved almost entirely around agronomics. Almost all of the men worked on the farms and the various seasonal activities were exciting for the local children. Harvest time was the best. All the children would gather in the fields with sticks, plus a e few adults with guns - the thought beingness to despatch the rabbits as they ran out of the corn. Rabbits were a very of import addition to the diet, and it was equally important for the farmers to take them culled. When the sheaves were being carted to a stack, a small male child would sit on of the horses pulling the wagon. When the wagon had to motion on, he would shout 'Holdyer.' This was so that the men didn't autumn off the carriage. Another bit of excitement was when the 'threshing tackle' came to thresh the corn stacks in the fields. There was the huge steam engine, the 'drum' and the elevator which was worked by a horse; all well worth watching!

The annual village fete was as well exciting. I remember a competition for the children one year. You had to pick equally many wild flowers as you lot could and display them suitably. Manifestly, the child who collected the most won! There was a Bowls order, and the playing held was the light-green in those days. I retrieve it was pretty agile in the summer months.

Hempstead never had a store, though a few essentials could be bought in the White_Horse. Rose Cottage was the Postal service Office and the letters were delivered past a lady with a cycle. She never rode the cycle, but pushed it all around the village and outlying farms every 24-hour interval. Milk was delivered from a milk float from Baconsthorpe. A van from the ironmongers in Holt came effectually weekly, delivering, amongst other things, the all-essential alkane for our oil lamps. Bread was available from Hempstead Manufacturing plant.

Those lucky enough to accept a radio had to have their accumulator to Holt once a week to be 'recharged'. 'This more often than not took identify on a Friday, which was market day in Holt and an important day, locally, therefore.

If you lived in Hempstead, you either cycled or walked to Holt. There were four cars in the village, one of which was owned by the innkeeper. He supplemented his income by rabbiting with ferrets, and he took his equipment around in a very small motorcar. He also did a bit of taxi work when required.

In that location was a flourishing branch of the Women's constitute in the village and at that place seemed to be quite a few activities in the Village_Hall, including, of grade, whist drives and occasional concerts. I am certain that there were very many villages in which life was much the same equally in Hempstead, but which have as well changed considerably.

Diana Spalton - February 2020

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Source: http://www.hempstead-norfolk.co.uk/history.html

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