Croxton, Norfolk

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52°26′42″N 0°45′36″E / 52.4450°N 0.7600°E / 52.4450; 0.7600

Croxton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, within the district of Breckland. Croxton is located 2.2 miles north of Thetford and 26 miles south-east of Norwich.

History

Croxton's name is of mixed Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin deriving from an amalgamation of the Old English and Old Norse for 'Krokr's' farmstead or settlement.[2]

In the Domesday Book, Croxton is recorded as a settlement of 21 households in the hundred of Grimshoe. In 1086, the village was part of the estate of King William.[3]

Geography

According to the 2011 Census, Croxton has 445 residents living in 194 households.[4]

Croxton falls within the constituency of South West Norfolk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

All Saints' Church

Croxton's parish church is one of the 124 remaining Anglo-Saxon round-tower churches in Norfolk. The church was significantly remodelled in the Nineteenth Century and features a rare example of a Continental church spire.[5]

War memorial

All Saints' Church holds an elaborate wooden carved memorial to the fallen from the First World War, listing the following names:

  • Captain Duncan C. Graham (d.1917), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
  • Corporal George Eagle (d.1918), 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
  • Lance-Corporal Percy Meadows (d.1917), 10th (Hackney) Battalion, London Regiment
  • Private Isaac W. Moule (1895–1915), 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
  • Private George Boughen (1896–1916), 3/1st Brigade, Norfolk Yeomanry
  • Private George Vincent (1886–1917), 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
  • Private Alfred Linge (1899–1918), 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
  • Private Alfred H. Gathergood (d.1917), 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
  • Douglas Bell
  • William Cant
  • Bertie Cooper
  • William Haines
  • William Matthews
  • Alfred Nichols
  • William Shinks
  • Alfred Vincent
  • Harry Williams[6]

The memorial also features an engraving and separate memorial to Second-Lieutenant R. G. T. Meade (1895-1917) of the XIV King's Hussars who was killed fighting at the Battle of Ramadi. Meade is buried in Grave V.D.4 of the Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery in Iraq.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Office for National Statistics. (2011). Retrieved December 22, 2022. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E04006106
  2. ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Croxton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Custom report - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics". www.nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Norfolk Churches". www.norfolkchurches.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  6. ^ "Lt R G T Meade and Men of Croxton WW1". www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  7. ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission. (2022). Retrieved December 22, 2022. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7531731/richard-gilbert-trevor-meade/

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