Mulbarton is a village and

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located south of

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in the English county of

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. It covers an area of . The place-name 'Mulbarton' is first attested in the

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of 1086, where it appears as ''Molkebertuna'' and ''Molkebertestuna''. The name means "outlying dairy farm", the first element being the

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'meoluc' meaning 'milk', and the second element the Old English 'beretun' meaning 'barley town or settlement', hence 'farm'. The population at the 2001 census was 2,827, increasing to 3,521 at the 2011 census. Facilities include one school (Mulbarton Primary School), an Adnams'

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, ''The World's End'', a social club, two convenience stores (Spar and Co-op), a church, a fish-and-chip shop, a Chinese takeaway, and a MOT and vehicle repair centre. There is a regular bus service to Norwich. In the centre of the village is a large common, with a pond where many ducks live.

Governance

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in the same name exists. This ward stretches north west to Ketteringham with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 5,121.

Sport

The village also has its own non league football club, Mulbarton Wanderers F.C. who currently play in the

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at the Mulberry Park ground.Thurlow Nunn League
Mulbarton Wanderers – Thurlow Nunn League
accessdate: January 26, 2020

Notable people

Maurice Norman Maurice Norman (8 May 1934 – 27 November 2022) was an English association football, footballer who played nearly 400 times in the Football League as a Defender (association football), centre half for Norwich City F.C., Norwich City and Totten ...

, the former Norwich City, Tottenham Hotspur and England footballer, was born in Mulbarton * Sir Edward Wingfield, a retired civil servant, lived at Mulbarton Hall in the early 1900s.

References

External links

Mulbarton village websiteParish council websiteMulbarton Cricket ClubMulbarton Primary SchoolNorfolk Heritage and Explorations - Mulbarton
{{authority control Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk