Cranworth is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of the English county of Norfolk.

History

Cranworth's name is of

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origin and derives from the

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for an enclosed part of land with

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and

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s. In the Domesday Book, Cranworth is recorded as a settlement of 42 households located in the hundred of Mitford. In 1086, the village formed part of the estates of King William.

Geography

According to the 2011 Census, Cranworth has a population of 419 residents living in 175 households. Cranworth falls within the

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and is represented at Parliament by Liz Truss MP of the

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St. Mary's Church

Cranworth's parish church is of

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origin and is dedicated to

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. The interior of the church is almost exclusively

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and the

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dates from the Fourteenth Century.

Notable residents

* Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth- British lawyer and politician

War memorial

Cranworth's war memorial takes the form of a cuboid stone column topped with a stone carving of an angel of victory. The memorial is located in St. Mary's Churchyard and lists the following names for the First World War: * Lance-Corporal Robert R. Tuttle (1892-1916), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Driver William F. Lyon (1894-1919),

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att. 4th Cavalry Division * Private Victor T. Edwards (d.1916), 8th Battalion, Border Regiment * Private Ernest W. Graves (1880-1918), 6th Battalion, Royal East Kent Regiment * Private Frederick J. Green (1899-1918), 61st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps * Private John Hagan (d.1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Lionel W. Green (1897-1917), 1/5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Sidney Hipkin (d.1918), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Bartlett J. Hart (1894-1917), 1st Battalion,

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* Private Frederick C. Ward (d.1918), 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment * Johnathan Berry * Frederic S. Sidell And, the following for the Second World War: * Able-Seaman Geoffrey G. Ebbage (1923-1941), ''

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'' * Private George Graves (1920-1940), 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry * Albert Clarke * Robert HarrisWar Memorials Online. (2015). Retrieved December 20, 2022. https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/215880/

References

External links

{{authority control Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk Breckland District