Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall is a

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in the

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, situated some 6 km south-east of

Wymondham Wymondham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England, south-west of Norwich off the A11 road to London. The River Tiffey runs through. The parish, one of Norfolk's largest, includes rural areas to ...

and 20 km south-west of

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. The parish includes the villages of Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall, which lie about 1 km apart, although rather farther by road. The civil parish has an area of 9.74 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 756 in 301 households, the population falling to 750 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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. Fundenhall was a separate parish until it was annexed by Ashwellthorpe in 1935. The combined parish was known as Ashwellthorpe until 2003, when it adopted its current name.

Railway

Ashwellthorpe had a

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on the

Forncett Forncett is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,000 in 381 households at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,126 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within ...

line; it closed in 1939.

War Memorial

Ashwellthorpe War Memorial lies in All Saint's Churchyard and holds the following names from 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 ...

: * Rifleman P. W. Bateman (d.1918), King's Royal Rifle Corps * Rifleman Leonard M. Bateman (d.1917), 12th Battalion,

Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle ...

* Private Albert G. Grimmer (1894-1917), 163rd 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 Edgar J. Goose (d.1916), 2nd 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 ...

* Private Frederick L. Tubby (1885-1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private E. E. Squires (d.1918), 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment * Private W. R. Squires (1884-1918), 16th (Sussex Yeomanry) Battalion,

Royal Sussex Regiment The Royal Sussex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment of Foot a ...

* H. G. Bateman * W. J. George * A. J. Hunt It also holds the following names from 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 ...

: * Private Eric F. Browne (1920-1943), 6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Sergeant Ernest T. Goodrum (1922-1944),

No. 37 Squadron RAF No. 37 Squadron was a Royal Air Force squadron of the First and Second World Wars. History First World War No. 37 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was formed at RFC Orfordness, Suffolk, on 15 April 1916 as an experimental squadron, but i ...

References

* Ordnance Survey (1999). ''OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich''. . * Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001).
Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
'. Retrieved 2 December 2005. * Visions of Britain.
Fundenhall CP/AP Norfolk through time
'. Retrieved 4 November 2005. * Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2004).
Bulletin of Changes to Local Authority Areas and Names in England
'. Retrieved 6 December 2005.

External links

;Ashwellthorpe * for Ashwellthorpe.
Information from Genuki Norfolk
on Ashwellthorpe. ;Fundenhall * for Fundenhall.
Information from Genuki Norfolk
on Fundenhall. ;Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall
Community website for Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall
Local information on Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall. {{Civil Parishes of South Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk