Booton is a village and

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 authorit ...

in the

Broadland Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. The population of the local authority district taken at the 2011 Census was 124,646. Its council is based in Thorpe St Andrew. In 2013, Broadland w ...

district 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, just east of Reepham and seven miles west of

Aylsham Aylsham ( or ) is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, nearly north of Norwich. The river rises near Melton Constable, upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea, ...

. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 100, including

Brandiston Brandiston is a small village and civil parish near the centre of the county of Norfolk, England, about two miles south-east of the small market town of Reepham, five miles south-west of the larger town of Aylsham and 10 miles north-west of the ...

and increasing to 196 at the 2011 Census.

History

Booton is a name of Anglo-Saxon origin meaning 'Bota's' farmstead. 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 ...

, Booton is recorded as having a population of 7 households. The town was owned by Tihel of Hellean.

Notable natives/residents

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War Memorial

Booton's War Memorial takes the form of a marble plaque in St. Michael the Archangel Church. It holds the following names 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 Robert J. Hall (1884-1915), 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 Stanley W. Davidson (1895-1915), 1st 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 Wilfred Stackwood (d.1916), Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Albert S. Bacon (d.1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Sidney A. Davidson (d.1917), 3/4th Battalion,

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, originally as the Queen' ...

* Rifleman William Coe (d.1917), 9th Battalion,

Queen Victoria's Rifles The 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) was a Territorial Army infantry battalion of the British Army. The London Regiment was formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions ...

, London Regiment * Rifleman Sidney Page (d.1917), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * William Douglas * William Hall * John Long * William Roberts * Herbert Wells Smith, L. (2003). Retrieved November 06, 2022. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Booton.html

Landmarks

* St Michael the Archangel's Church, Booton is a redundant Victorian church designed by its

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Whitwell Elwin Whitwell Elwin (26 February 1816 – 1 January 1900) was an English clergyman, critic and editor of the '' Quarterly Review''. Life He was the son of Marsham Elwin, a country gentleman of Thurning, Norfolk, and a descendant of John Rolfe and ...

Notes

External links

Booton postmill history
Villages in Norfolk Broadland Civil parishes in Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub