East Carleton is a village and
civil parish
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in the
English
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county of
Norfolk
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. The village is located east of nearby
Wymondham
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and south-west of
Norwich
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.
History
East Carleton's name is of
Anglo-Saxon
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and
Viking
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
origin and derives from an amalgamation of the
Old English
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and
Old Norse
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for the settlement or farmstead of the freemen.
In the
Domesday Book
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, East Carleton is listed as a settlement of 58 households in the
hundred
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In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
of Humbleyard. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of
Roger Bigod, Ralph de Beaufour and Ranulf de Peverel.
The village has good examples of surviving Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century residential architecture.
Geography
According to the
2011 Census, East Carleton has a population of 343 residents living in 128 households.
East Carleton falls within the
constituency
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of
South Norfolk
South Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in Long Stratton. The population of the Local Authority District was 124,012 as taken at the 2011 Census.
History
The district was formed on 1 April 19 ...
and is represented at
Parliament
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by
Richard Bacon MP of the
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the
district
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of
South Norfolk
South Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in Long Stratton. The population of the Local Authority District was 124,012 as taken at the 2011 Census.
History
The district was formed on 1 April 19 ...
.
St. Mary's Church
East Carleton's parish church is dedicated to
Saint Mary and is a Nineteenth Century rebuilding of a Medieval church on the same site. St. Mary's features examples of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century stained glass including an Angel of Charity installed by
James Powell and Sons
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and a depiction of
Saint Mary and
Christ
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, names and titles), was ...
by
Heaton, Butler and Bayne
Heaton, Butler and Bayne were an English firm who produced stained-glass windows from 1862 to 1953.
History
Clement Heaton (1824–82) Fleming, John & Hugh Honour. (1977) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. '' London: Allen Lane, p. 371 ...
.
[ Knott, S. (2021). Retrieved December 26, 2022. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastcarleton/eastcarleton.htm ]
Refrences
External links
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Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk