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Cranwich

Coordinates: 52°31′18″N 0°37′28″E / 52.5217°N 0.6244°E / 52.5217; 0.6244
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Cranwich
St Mary's church
Cranwich is located in Norfolk
Cranwich
Cranwich
Location within Norfolk
Area7.38 km2 (2.85 sq mi)
OS grid referenceTL781947
Civil parish
  • Cranwich
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTHETFORD
Postcode districtIP26
Dialling code01842
PoliceNorfolk
FireNorfolk
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Norfolk
52°31′18″N 0°37′28″E / 52.5217°N 0.6244°E / 52.5217; 0.6244

Cranwich is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Mundford. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland.

History

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Cranwich's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for "a marsh with cranes or herons".[1]

In the Domesday Book, Cranwich is listed as a settlement of 36 households in the hundred of Grimshoe. The village formed part of the estates of William de Warenne.[2]

Geography

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In the 2011 Census, Cranwich's population is measured as a civil parish and therefore in the same survey as Ickburgh. The combined population of Ickburgh and Cranwich in 2011 was recorded as 309 residents living in 161 households.[3]

Cranwich is located within the constituency of South West Norfolk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Church

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Cranwich's parish church is one of Norfolk's 124 remaining Anglo-Saxon round-tower churches and is dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus. St. Mary's was in danger of falling into disrepair in the early 2000s until a grant from English Heritage allowed parishioners to carry out repairs to the building and churchyard.[4]

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Cranwich is the setting for the 2009 horror-comedy film Lesbian Vampire Killers, with the village renamed Cragwich in the film.

War memorial

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The war memorial for Mundford, Lynford, West Tofts and Cranwich is located in Mundford, close to the junction between the A134 and the A1065. The memorial takes the form of a stone column topped with a metal crucifix and lists the following names for Cranwich's war dead during the First World War:

  • Private Herbert Nickolls (1893–1917), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private Reginald T. Boldry (1891–1916), 1/4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Private John V. Crook (1888–1916), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Henry Long

Notes

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  1. ^ University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved December 20, 2022. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Cranwich
  2. ^ Domesday Book. (1086). Retrieved December 20, 2022. https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7894/cranwich/
  3. ^ Office for National Statistics. (2011). Retrieved December 20, 2022. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E04006132
  4. ^ Knott, S. (2004/2009). Retrieved December 20, 2022. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranwich/cranwich.htm

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