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Forncett

Civil parish in Norfolk, England

Forncett
Summary

Civil parish in Norfolk, England

FieldValue
countryEngland
coordinates
os_grid_referenceTM165928
official_nameForncett
population1,126
population_ref(2011)
area_total_km210.76
shire_districtSouth Norfolk
shire_countyNorfolk
regionEast of England
civil_parishForncett
constituency_westminsterWaveney Valley
postcode_districtNR16
postcode_areaNR
post_townNORWICH
dial_code01508
static_imageSt Mary's Church, Forncett St Mary, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 843366.jpg
static_image_captionSt Mary's Church, Forncett St Mary

Forncett is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 10.76 km2 and had a population of 1,000 in 381 households at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,126 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.

It includes the villages of Forncett St Peter's, Forncett St Mary and Forncett End and the location of Bustard's Green.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall with a total population at the 2011 Census of 2,701.

Forncett Industrial Steam Museum

The [[Tower Bridge]] engine

The Forncett Industrial Steam Museum houses a collection of large stationary steam engines which are occasionally demonstrated to the public.

Included in the collection is a 150 hp Vickers Armstrong cross-compound pumping engine originally used to open Tower Bridge in London. It was the 'third' steam engine, installed as a wartime precaution against air-raid damage, and was removed to Forncett in 1974. The two original engines remain on display at Tower Bridge.

Other exhibits include a Gimson and Company beam engine, and examples of Corliss engines, vertical engines and Woolf compound engines.

Norfolk Tank Museum

Situated in Station Road, the museum houses an exhibition of tanks, armoured vehicles, and weaponry.

Notable people

  • Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003), composer, died there.
  • Frances Ellen Colenso, a historian of the Zulu Wars, was born here in 1849.
  • Robert Kett (), leader of Kett's rebellion, was the son of Forncett native Thomas Kett.

References

References

  1. (1 November 2006). "Forncett parish information". South Norfolk Council.
  2. "Civil Parish population 2011".
  3. "Ward population 2011".
  4. "The Tower Bridge engine". Forncett Industrial Steam Museum.
  5. "Norfolk Tank Museum".
  6. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doreen-carwithen-124778.html
  7. B. M. Nicholls, ‘Colenso, Harriette Emily (1847–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46549, accessed 2 Jan 2017]
  8. "Kett, Robert (c.1492–1549), rebel".
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