Great Moulton

History

Great Moulton is mentioned in Domesday Book five times and had a relatively large population for a rural Norfolk village, consisting of more than seventy households (in 2011 there were over 300) as well as a church. The lord in 1086 was Count Alan of Brittany.

In the 1870s, Great Moulton was described as:... Adjacent to the Great Eastern railway, midway between Tivetshall and Forncett stations, and seven miles NW of Harleston; and has a pub called Fox and Hound, of the name of Moulton, under Long Stratton. The parish contains also the hamlet of Little Moulton, and comprises 1,347 acres. The church has a round tower, surmounted by an octagonal lantern In 1924, Charles Chute gave the advowson of the parish to Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich, and his successors.

Chapel

A chapel originally found in Great Moulton was donated to the Museum of East Anglian Life and is a "tin tabernacle", which is common in the area. It was built in the 1890s and cost the equivalent of £20,000 in today's money. The community built a new chapel in the 1990s which is why the previous was donated.

Transport

The village is served by the 1 bus route between Diss and Norwich, which has four stops within the parish. The nearest train station is Spooner Row which is 7.42 miles away, and also has Norwich and Brundall train stations within 20 miles of the chapel.

Car ownership is relatively high, as only nineteen households in 2011 did not own one or more car or van, and there are 585 cars or vans in the area.

Statistics

Occupations

Comparatively, in 2011, of the 402 residents employed in Great Moulton only ten males were working in the agricultural sector, and 48 men were employed in construction, which had the highest number of male employees. Over 50 women were employed in administrative and secretarial occupations, and 16 women were employed as managers, directors and senior officials. Overall the most common job is work in wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motor cycles which had 65 employees.[[File:Great Moulton timeseries 1801-2011.jpg|thumb|Total population of Great Moulton Civil Parish, Norfolk, as reported by the census of population from 1801 to 2011|170x170px]]

Population

The total population of Great Moulton was at its lowest in 1961 with a total of 247, where there was then it showed an increase of 500 people in 50 years, leading to 751 people living in Great Moulton to date. When the census began in 1801, the population was at 354 residents, where it gently increased to the highest population prior to 2001, which was 1851 with a total population of over 450 people.

Age

208 residents are aged 45–59, making this the largest age range. Forty-seven people are under the age of ten, with a further 55 under the age of sixteen, and the most common age range for children is 10–14. 163 residents of Great Moulton are over 65, 113 of which are under 75.

Ethnicity

Of the 751 residents of Great Moulton, 730 are white British, four people are from multiple ethnic backgrounds, one person is Irish and a further fourteen have an other white background, which is relatively diverse for a civil parish.

Notes

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