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Caistor Near Yarmouth in Norfolk County England History and GeographyCAISTOR near YARMOUTH, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of FLEGG, county of NORFOLK, 19½ miles (E.) from Norwich, containing 772 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with the rectory of St. Edmund, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated together in the king's books at £10. John Steward, Esq. was patron in 1822. The church is dedicated to St. Edmund. The name is evidently a corrupted Saxonism of Castrum, it being clear, from the visible remains of fortifications and the discovery of numerous coins, that the Romans had a camp here, opposite to, and connected with, Garianonum. The manor was anciently in the possession of the family of Fastolf; and Sir John Fastolf, a celebrated warrior and estimable man, whose character some consider Shakspeare to have pervertedly drawn in his Sir John Falstaff, was born here. He was the founder of the castle, which at his death, in the 38th of Henry VI., he requested should be kept as a college for priests and an hospital for poor men; but it was besieged some time afterwards by the Duke of Norfolk, at the head of three thousand men, under the pretence of having purchased it, to whom the defenders were compelled to surrender it: it was supposed to be one of the oldest brick mansions in the kingdom, but is now in ruins. Caistor was formerly divided into two parishes, Castor Trinity, and Castor St. Edmund's, which were consolidated September 22nd, 1608; the church belonging to the former has been suffered to fall into ruins. A line of sand-hills, called the Meals, or Marum Hills, commences here, and extends, with occasional interruptions, to Hapsbury point, where two light-houses have been erected, and thence to Cromer bay. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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