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Cranwich

Village in Norfolk, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
os_grid_reference	TL781947
official_name	Cranwich
area_total_km2	7.38
static_image_name	Cranwich-g1.jpg
static_image_caption	St. Mary's Church
shire_district	Breckland
shire_county	Norfolk
region	East of England
civil_parish	Cranwich
constituency_westminster	South West Norfolk
postcode_district	IP26
postcode_area	IP
post_town	THETFORD
dial_code	01842

Cranwich is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

Cranwich is located 8.6 mi north-west of Thetford and 29 mi west of Norwich.

History

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

In the Domesday Book, Cranwich is listed as a settlement of 36 households in the hundred of Grimshoe. In 1086, the village formed part of the estates of William de Warenne.

In 1935, a labour camp was established in Cranwich by the Ministry of Labour for unemployed men. The camp gave manual work in forestry and quarrying and was closed at the onset of the Second World War, where it was used by the British Army.

Geography

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.

Cranwich is located close to Watermill Broad and the course of the River Wissey. The A134, between King's Lynn and Colchester, runs through the village.

St. Mary's Church

Cranwich's parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and is one of Norfolk's 124 round-tower churches, dating from the 11th century. St. Mary's is located just off Cranwich Road and has been Grade I listed since 1960.

St. Mary's tower is one of the oldest in Norfolk, but the rest of the building is later. The church was restored in a simple fashion in the Victorian era.

In popular culture

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

Governance

Cranwich is part of the electoral ward of Bedingfield for local elections and is part of the district of Breckland.

Cranwich is located in the constituency of South West Norfolk, which has been represented by Terry Jermy of the Labour Party since 2024.

War memorial

Cranwich's war memorial is located in Mundford and is a stone memorial topped with a metal cross, which also lists the fallen for Mundford, Lynford and West Tofts. The memorial lists the following from the First World War:

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of death	Burial
Pte.	Herbert Nickolls	1st Bn., Norfolk Regiment	13 May 1917	Mont-Huon Military Cemetery
Pte.	Reginald T. Boldry	1/4th Bn., Norfolk Regt.	17 Aug. 1916	Cairo War Cemetery
Pte.	Henry P. Long	1/4th Bn., Norfolk Regt.	19 Apr. 1917	Jerusalem Memorial
Pte.	John V. Crook	9th Bn., Norfolk Regt.	30 Sep. 1916	St. Sever Cemetery

References

"Key to English Place-names".
"Cranwich {{!}} Domesday Book".
"MNF25240 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer".
Office for National Statistics. (2011). Retrieved 20 December 2022. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E04006132
"CHURCH OF ST MARY, Cranwich - 1305340 {{!}} Historic England".
"Cranwich".
"Roll of Honour - Norfolk - Mundford".
"Geograph:: Caister to Croxton :: War Memorials in Norfolk".

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