GUESTWICK, a parish in Aylsham district, Norfolk; adjacent to the river Bure, 2½ miles NE of Foulsham, and 6½ NE of Elmham r. station. Post town, Foulsham, under Thetford. Acres, , 646. Real property, £2, 544. Pop., 203. Houses, 42. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £88.* Patron, W. E. L. Bulwer, Esq. The church is a neat edifice, with a pinnacled tower. There are an Independent chapel and a national school. Godwin, the novelist, was a native.

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