HETHERSETT, a village and a parish in Henstead district, Norfolk. The village stands near the Norwich and Brandon railway, 5½ miles SW by W of Norwich; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Wymondham..The parish comprises 2, 674 acres. Real property, £7, 498. Pop., 1, 169. Houses, 268. Thickthorn House and Hethersett Hall are the chief residences. Canteloff or Cantelose manor here was formerly a parish; still ranks ecclesiastically as a rectory; and had a church, the site of which is still called the old churchyard. Kett and his rebel band held their councils in the parish, in 1549, under a large tree called the Old Oak. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Canteloff, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £651.* Patron, Caius College, Cambridge. The church was built about 1350, and has a lofty embattled tower, with small spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a slightly endowed national school, and charities £53.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))