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Frettenham

Village in Norfolk, England

Summary

Village in Norfolk, England

FieldValue
countryEngland
coordinates
os_grid_referenceTG246174
official_nameFrettenham
population844
population_ref(2021 census)
static_imageFrettenham Village Sign.jpg
static_image_width240px
static_image_captionFrettenham village sign, incorporating a millstone from Frettenham Mill
shire_districtBroadland
shire_countyNorfolk
regionEast of England
civil_parishFrettenham
constituency_westminsterBroadland and Fakenham
postcode_districtNR12
postcode_areaNR
post_townNorwich
dial_code01603
london_distance103 mi
area_total_sq_mi2.44

Frettenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

Frettenham is located 3.2 mi west of Wroxham, and 5.7 mi north of Norwich.

History

Frettenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Fraeta's homestead or village.

In the Domesday Book, Frettenham is listed as a settlement of 34 households hundred of Taverham. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of Roger the Poitevin.

Frettenham Windmill dates from the late-Nineteenth Century and is currently a private residence with its sails and fantail removed. The windmill is a Grade II listed building.

During the First World War, a Royal Flying Corps airfield was built in the parish though it soon returned to agricultural use.

Geography

According to the 2021 census, Frettenham has a population of 844 people which shows an increase from the 740 people recorded in the 2011 census.

Hillside Animal Sanctuary is located within the parish.

St. Swithin's Church

Frettenham's parish church is dedicated to Saint Swithin and dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. Swithin's is located outside of the village on Church Lane and has been Grade II listed since 1961. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the church has not been open for Sunday worship.

St. Swithin's was restored in the Victorian era by Richard Phipson and holds a monumental brass memorial to Alice Thorndon (d.1420) with further stone memorials to Rev. Richard Woodes (d.1620) and Thomas Drake (d.1810) who was a treasurer aboard HMS Centaur and later a prisoner of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan.

Governance

Frettenham is part of the electoral ward of Buxton for local elections and is part of the district of Broadland.

The village's national constituency is Broadland and Fakenham which has been represented by the Conservative Party's Jerome Mayhew MP since 2019.

War memorial

Frettenham's war memorial takes the form of a stone obelisk above a trapezoid plinth and is located in St. Swithun's Cemetery. The memorial was unveiled in January 1921 by John Cator, High Sheriff of Norfolk and John Willink, Dean of Norwich and lists the following names for the First World War:

RankNameUnitDate of deathBurial/Commemoration
Sgt.Thomas C. Buck DCM2nd Bn., Coldstream Guards9 May 1915Rue-des-Berceaux Cem.
LCpl.Louis P. Money1/7th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers25 Mar. 1918Arras Memorial
LCpl.Albert Rivett MM9th Bn., Norfolk Regiment15 Apr. 1918Tyne Cot
Dvr.Walter J. Forster27th Bde., Royal Field Artillery29 Sep. 1918Lebucquière Cemetery
Gnr.Frederick J. Stoladay46th Bde., R.F.A.11 Dec. 1918Niederzwehren Cemetery
Pte.Charles A. Buck1st Bn., Essex Regiment17 Apr. 1917Duisans Cemetery
Pte.Cecil F. Muskett1st Bn., Norfolk Regiment9 Oct. 1917Hooge Crater Cemetery
Pte.Frederick H. Bloom7th Bn., Norfolk Regt.17 Jul. 1915Pont-de-Nieppe Cemetery
Pte.William F. Norgate1/5th Bn., Northumberland Fusiliers26 Oct. 1917Tyne Cot
Rfn.Robert C. Garrett9th (Victoria's Rf) Bn., London Regt.22 Nov. 1917Cambrai Memorial

The following names were added after the Second World War:

RankNameUnitDate of deathBurial/Commemoration
Pte.Sydney G. Wymer1/4th Bn., Essex Regiment5 Oct. 1944Coriano Ridge Cemetery
Pte.Cecil G. Cannell6th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regiment29 Nov. 1943Chungkai War Cemetery

References

References

  1. "Key to English Place-names".
  2. "Frettenham {{!}} Domesday Book".
  3. "Norfolk Mills - Frettenham tower windmill".
  4. "MNF13617 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer".
  5. "Frettenham (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location".
  6. "CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, Frettenham - 1372955 {{!}} Historic England".
  7. "Frettenham: St Swithin".
  8. "Norfolk Churches".
  9. "Frettenham War Memorial, Frettenham - 1443388 {{!}} Historic England".
  10. "Geograph:: Fakenham to Fundenhall :: War Memorials in Norfolk".
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