Guist () is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish also includes the nearby hamlet of Twyford.
Guist is located north of Dereham and north-west of Norwich.
History Guist's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Gaega's dwelling.
In the Domesday Book, Guist is listed as a settlement of 29 households in the hundred of Wayland. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of King William I, William de Warenne, Roger Bigod, Ralph Baynard and John, nephew of Waleran.
There is a disused lime kiln in Guist that was built between 1814 and 1846.
In 1929, the whole village was re-built as a model village under the instruction of Sir Thomas Cook MP, the Lord of Sennowe Park.
Geography According to the 2021 census, Guist has a population of 267 people which shows an increase from the 250 people recorded in the 2011 census.
Guist is located at the junction of the A1067, between Fakenham and Norwich, and the B1110, between Holt and Dereham. The majority of the village is part of the Sennowe Park Estate.
St. Andrew's Church Guist's parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and dates from the Sixteenth Century. St. Andrew's is located within the village on Norwich Road and has been Grade II listed since 1960. The church still holds Sunday services every week and is part of the Heart of Norfolk Benefice.
The chancel of St. Andrew's was rebuilt in the 1880s by Herbert John Green in memory of John Norris Spurgeon who served as Vicar of the parish between 1861 and 1907.
Governance Guist is part of the electoral ward of Upper Wensum for local elections and is part of the district of Breckland.
The village's national constituency is Mid Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative's George Freeman MP since 2010.
War Memorial Guist War Memorial is a stone obelisk with a plinth which lists the following names for the First World War: +RankNameUnitDate of deathBurial/CommemorationCpl.Charles Tipple1st Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment9 May 1915Le Touret MemorialLCpl.Ezra E. Eggleton23rd (County) Bn., London Regt.2 Sep. 1918Heilly Station CemeteryLCpl.James F. Pilch9th Bn., Norfolk Regiment5 Nov. 1915Steenvoorde CemeteryPte.James Nobbs8th Bn., Bedfordshire Regiment19 Apr. 1917Loos MemorialPte.Fred Smith8th Bn., Durham Light Infantry15 Mar. 1916Railway Dugouts Cemetery Pte.George D. Platten1st Bn., East Yorkshire Regiment20 Oct. 1914Ploegsteert MemorialPte.William R. Palmer2nd Bn., Middlesex Regiment27 May 1915Soissons MemorialPte.George R. Baldwin7th Bn., Norfolk Regiment30 Nov. 1917Cambrai MemorialPte.Charles T. Farrow7th Bn., Norfolk Regt.7 Nov. 1915Étaples Military CemeteryPte.Frederick Nobes11th Bn., Queen's Royal Regiment 3 May 1918SüdfriedhofPte.Percy Nobes8th Bn., Worcestershire Regiment16 Aug. 1917Tyne CotRfn.Arthur H. Palmer11th Bn., Rifle Brigade30 Nov. 1917Gouzeaucourt Cemetery The following names were added after the Second World War: +RankNameUnitDate of deathBurial/Commemoration2Lt.Norman E. Parker6th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regiment26 Jan. 1942Kranji War MemorialASn.Herbert G. StanleyHMS Keith1 Jun. 1940Chatham Naval MemorialPte.Geoffrey A. Turner1st Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment19 Apr. 1944Rangoon Memorial
References