• Source: Cranworth

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


      History


      Cranworth's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for an enclosed part of land with cranes and herons.
      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 constituency of South West Norfolk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.


      St. Mary's Church


      Cranworth's parish church is of Norman origin and is dedicated to Saint Mary. The interior of the church is almost exclusively Victorian and the font 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), Royal Army Service Corps 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, Queen's Royal Regiment
      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), HMS Calcutta
      Private George Graves (1920–1940), 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
      Albert Clarke
      Robert Harris


      References




      External links


      Media related to Cranworth at Wikimedia Commons

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