| Cranwich | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's church | |
  Cranwich Location within Norfolk | |
| Area | 7.38 km2 (2.85 sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TL781947 |
| Civil parish |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | THETFORD |
| Postcode district | IP26 |
| Dialling code | 01842 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
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[edit]
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[edit]
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 and is represented at Parliament by Liz Truss of the Conservative Party.
Church[edit]
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]
In popular culture[edit]
Cranwich is the setting for the 2009 horror-comedy film Lesbian Vampire Killers, with the village renamed Cragwich in the film.
War memorial[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved December 20, 2022. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Cranwich
- ^ Domesday Book. (1086). Retrieved December 20, 2022. https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7894/cranwich/
- ^ Office for National Statistics. (2011). Retrieved December 20, 2022. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E04006132
- ^ Knott, S. (2004/2009). Retrieved December 20, 2022. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/cranwich/cranwich.htm
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