Английская Википедия:Baconsthorpe
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox UK place Baconsthorpe is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district of the English county of Norfolk. It is Шаблон:Convert south-east of Holt, Шаблон:Convert south of Sheringham and Шаблон:Convert north of Norwich.[1]
Population and governance
The civil parish has an area of 5.53 km². In the 2001 census it had a population of 232 in 105 households. This eased to 215 at the Census 2011,[2] and was estimated at 216 in 2019.[3] For local government, the parish is in the district of North Norfolk.[4]
Heritage
The village's name derives from "Bacon's outlying farm/settlement", Bacon being the surname of the local landowner in Norman times.
The ruins of the 15th-century Baconsthorpe Castle lie about Шаблон:Convert to the north of the village.
The medieval Anglican Church of St Mary was restored in 1868 and 1958. It contains monuments from the 15th–18th centuries and some 16th-century glass saved from the castle.[5]
Accommodation
There is a tourist campsite with full amenities at Pitt Farm near the west end of the village.[6] Some bed-and-breakfast accommodation and holiday lets are also available. Other facilities and services can be found in the nearby town of Holt.
Notable residents
In order of birth:
- John Baconthorpe [sic] or Bacon (c. 1290–1347), Carmelite friar and scholastic philosopher, born at Baconsthorpe
- John Heydon or Baxter (died 1479) rose from the yeomanry to become prominent as a lawyer.
- Sir Henry Heydon (died 1504), lawyer, courtier and landowner, died at Baconsthorpe.
- Sir Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), soldier, astrologer, and a county member of Parliament for Norfolk, ran his Norfolk estates from Baconsthorpe Castle.
- Robert Brightiffe (c. 1666–1749), a barrister and a member of Parliament for Norwich and recorder there, was born at his father's house in Baconsthorpe.[7]
War Memorial
Baconsthorpe's War Memorials take the form of two plaques in St. Mary's Church, they hold the following names for the First World War:
- Corporal Horace E. Dew (d.1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
- Gunner George R. Cooper (1891-1917), 'A' Depot, Royal Garrison Artillery
- Rifleman Robert Jermy (d.1918), 9th (London) Battalion, Queen Victoria's Rifles
- Private E. F. Frank Thursby (1896-1917), 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment
- Private Henry J. Smith (d.1917), 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
- Private Frederick B. Dew (1893-1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
- Private Frederick Knowles (d.1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
- Private A. W. Richard Cletheroe (1896-1917), 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
- Private William T. Jarvis (1897-1917), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
- William J. Barnes
And, the following for the Second World War:
- Corporal Leslie F. Smith (d.1944), 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
- Ordinary-Seaman Geoffrey D. Grout (1919-1940), HMS Forfar (F30)
References
External links
Шаблон:Civil Parishes of North Norfolk
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ City Population. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ Retrieved 25 December 2017.
- ↑ John Venn, "Brightiffe, Robert", in Alumni Cantabrigienses (Part I, from earliest times to 1751, vol. i Abbas–Cutts; Cambridge University Press, 1922)
