Rushall is a village in the county of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 176. The church of Rushall St Mary the Virgin is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in

Toponymy

The name 'Rushall' means perhaps, 'Rif's nook of land' or the first element may be Old English 'hrif', 'belly/womb', used in some topographical sense.

History

The village used to be its own

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

until it merged with

Dickleburgh Dickleburgh is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dickleburgh and Rushall, in the South Norfolk district of the English county of Norfolk. The village is located 3.5 miles east of Diss and 17 miles south-west of Norwich. In 2 ...

in 1935, the parish is now called

Dickleburgh and Rushall Dickleburgh and Rushall is a civil parish in South Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 1356 in 565 households at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,472 at the 2011 Census. Toponymy The name 'Dickleburgh' means 'Dicel's/Dicla' ...

References

Villages in Norfolk Former civil parishes in Norfolk South Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub