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East Rudham is a village and
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in the
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county of
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. The village is located north-east of King's Lynn and north-west of
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.


History

East Rudham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the
Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...
for 'Rudda's' homestead or village. Several
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and
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artefacts have been found close to East Rudham, and there is further evidence to suggest a small Roman settlement was based on the modern village. In the
Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...
, East and West Rudham are recorded together as a settlement of 67 households in the
hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. 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 des ...
of Brothercross. In 1086, the village was divided between the East Anglian estates of Alan of Brittany, William de Warenne and Peter de Valognes. During the
Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
, a starfish site was created on nearby Coxford Heath designed to draw
Luftwaffe The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...
bombers away from King's Lynn. In 2016, several test pits were dug by the
University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
around the parish.


Geography

According to the 2011 Census, East Rudham, including Broomsthorpe, has a population of 541 residents living in 281 households. The parish covered an area of . East Rudham falls within the constituency of
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and is represented at
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by James Wild MP of the Conservative Party. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the
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of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.


St. Mary's Church

East Rudham's church is dedicated to Saint Mary and was rebuilt in the mid-Nineteenth Century in the
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after the tower collapsed into the
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. St. Mary's font pre-dates the church and is dated 1852.


Transport

East Rudham railway station opened in 1880 as a stop on the
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire, the Isle of Ely and north Norfolk. It developed from several local independent concerns and was incorporated ...
between South Lynn and
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. The station closed in 1959. The A148, between King's Lynn and
Cromer Cromer ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Norwich, north-northeast of London and east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline. The local government authorities are Nor ...
, bisects the village.


War Memorial

East and West Rudham's war memorial takes the form of an obelisk topped with a wheel cross, located beside the A148. It lists the following names from East Rudham for the
First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
: * Corporal H. Walter Wake (1888-1915), 5th Battalion,
Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...
* Lance-Corporal Bertie R. Huggins (1895-1917), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Driver Claude Whitby (1898-1918), 20th (Ammunition Column) Brigade,
Royal Horse Artillery The Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) was formed in 1793 as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery (commonly termed Royal Artillery) to provide horse artillery support to the cavalry units of the British Army. (Although the cavalry link r ...
* Gunner Alfred Vertigen (1898-1918), 331st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery * Gunner William E. Hammond (1888-1917), 64th (Siege) Battery,
Royal Garrison Artillery The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) ...
* Gunner Frank Green (1885-1918), 290th (Siege) Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery * Private Herbert Gregory (1889-1917), 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers * Private Robert W. Nicholls (1890-1918), 7th Battalion,
Leicestershire Regiment The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688. The regiment saw service for three centuries, in numerous wars and conflicts such as both W ...
* Private Albert E. Overland (1886-1917), 205th Company,
Machine Gun Corps The Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in the First World War. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use tanks ...
* Private James E. Daniels (1895-1916), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Cecil E. Strangleman (1895-1917), 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Ernest A. Bobbitt (1880-1918), 1st Battalion,
Northamptonshire Regiment The Northamptonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1960. In 1960, it was amalgamated with the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment to form the 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's O ...
* Private Albert L. Dawson (1894-1917), 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment * Private Edric J. Couzens (1893-1916), 1st Battalion,
Worcestershire Regiment The Worcestershire Regiment was a line infantry regiment in the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot and the 36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot. The regiment f ...
And, the following for the
Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
: * Lieutenant Henry R. Newton (1917-1944),
Royal Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...
* Corporal Charles H. Riches (1917-1940), 1st Battalion,
Coldstream Guards The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal roles is the protection of the monarchy; due to this, it often participates in state ceremonia ...
* Lance-Corporal Gordon L. Norman (1924-1943), 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Leading-Aircraftman Norman F. Kirk (d.1942),
Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) an ...
* Gunner George W. Twite (1907-1941), 1st (Light) Anti-Aircraft Regiment,
Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...
* Private Cecil E. Strangleman (1926-1944), 2nd Battalion,
Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...
* Private D. G. Thomas Woodard (1912-1944), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Reverend Henry T. Wagg (1909-1944), Royal Army Chaplains' Department att. 11th Armoured Division Peck, M. (2018). Retrieved December 27, 2022. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/EastRudham.html


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