Quarles is a
hamlet
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and former
civil parish
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, now in the civil parish of
Holkham, in the
North Norfolk
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History
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a ...
district, in the county of
Norfolk
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, England. The hamlet is south-west of
Wells-next-the-Sea, north-west of
Norwich
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and north-north-east of
London
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. The nearest railway station is
Sheringham
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for the
Bittern Line
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which runs between
Sheringham
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,
Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is
Norwich International Airport
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Norwich Airport has a CAA Public Use Aero ...
. The hamlet is just south of the Holkham Estate and consists of six houses and one farm. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 38.
History
Quarles has an entry in the
Domesday Book
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of 1085. In the great book Quarles is recorded by the names ''Gueruelei'', and ''Huerueles'', the genitive form of a personal name, i.e. "
he place
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of Gueruel/Hueruel". The manor was Kings Land and the main landholder was
Roger Bigot
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; his main tenant was Thurston Fitzguy.
The village is attested from the 1175 Norfolk ''Feet of Fines'' manuscript as "Warfles".
Quarles was formerly an
extra-parochial tract, from 1858 Quarles was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with
Great Walsingham,
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References
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Hamlets in Norfolk
Former civil parishes in Norfolk
North Norfolk