Bawdeswell is a small rural village and

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, England. At the time of the 2011 census it had a population of 828 and an area of 487 hectares. The village is situated almost in the centre of

about northwest of

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. For the purposes of local government it falls within the Upper Wensum Ward of

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and the Elmham and Mattishall Division of

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. It is on a Roman road that ran east–west between Durobrivae near modern

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and Smallburgh, crossing the

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. The village is recorded 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 ...

as ''Balderwella''. It was the home of

Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for '' The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...

's Reeve in The Reeve's Prologue and Tale in the ''

Canterbury Tales ''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''magnum opus ...

''. Its

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, All Saints', was rebuilt after its Victorian church was destroyed in

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when hit by a crashing de Havilland Mosquito bomber.

Toponymy

The village name appears to be unique, with no other example being found by internet searches, and has been spelt as ''Baldereswella'', ''Baldeswell'', ''Badswell'', ''Bawsewella'' and ''Baldeswelle'' – in 1807 it was officially Baldeswell. The exact meaning of the name of the village is uncertain. However, ''wella'' is a well, 'stream' or 'spring', and it is clear that there has always been water here with quite a number of wells still surviving, the water table being or less. ''Baldhere'' is an Anglo-Saxon man's name, composed of Old English elements meaning 'bold, strong' and 'army', and may date back before the 7th century. In Norse it was a mythological son of the God Odin and in Swedish meant 'The God of Light'. The name of the village may thus stem from the Old English given name ''Baldhere'' and refers to a source of water belonging to or possibly discovered by him. Therefore, an original spelling may have been ''Baldhereswella''. In his ''An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 8'', historian, social and landscape geographer

Francis Blomefield Rev. Francis Blomefield (23 July 170516 January 1752), FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: ''An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk''. It include ...

considers the meaning of ''balder'' could be quick running water and ascribes the same meaning to

Boldre Boldre is a village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. It is in the south of the New Forest National Park, above the broadening (estuary) of the Lymington River, two miles (3 km) north of Lymington. In the 2 ...

, Hampshire and Baldersdale, North Yorkshire.

Geography

Bawdeswell Village is situated almost in the centre of

on the northeastern boundary of Breckland District. It is about northwest of

, southeast of

Fakenham Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Wensum, about north west of Norwich. The town is the junction of several local roads, including the A148 from King's Lynn to Cromer, the A1067 to Norw ...

, northeast of the

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of East Dereham (more commonly known just as Dereham) and west of the small Market town of Reepham which is in

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District. The main area of the village is situated immediately to the north of the

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but there are also a few dwellings to the south of the A1067 on Dereham Road, Billingford Road and Elsing Lane. There is also a small amount of development on Reepham Road to the North of the village. The main area of the village varies between 140 and above sea level. Bawdeswell is close to the village of Foxley and to Foxley Wood which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and the largest remaining area of

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in Norfolk, England. Bawdeswell Parish is adjacent to the Parishes of Foxley to the North, Bylaugh and

Sparham Sparham is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of and had a population of 291 in 109 households at the 2001 census,Billingford to the west and Reepham to the east. Six roads meet at the settlement. From the northwest the road from Fakenham and from the southeast the road from Norwich (A1067). From the west the road from King's Lynn via Litcham and North Elmham and from the east the road from Mundesley on the coast via Aylsham and Reepham (B1145). From the southwest the road from Dereham via Swanton Morely. Lastly the road south to Elsing that starts as Elsing Lane and after reaching Elsing meanders through various lanes to places south such as North Tuddenham and Mattishall.

History

Bawdeswell is sited on a Roman road that ran from Durobrivae near modern

, across the

to Denver, followed Fincham Drove and crossed

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between Castle Acre and Swaffham, thence towards North Elmham and Billingford, to Bawdeswell and Jordans Green, and on to Smallburgh. It was a major east–west route and possibly continued via the large Roman settlement at Brampton to Caister or an important port since eroded by the sea. The village lies just over east of Billingford that was a Roman settlement and river (Wensum) crossing (wooden Roman Bridge) point. Some

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and Anglo Saxon artefacts found in Bawdeswell are listed by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service. An excavation at The Gables in 1998 revealed a variety of items from prehistoric to post medieval including Roman pot sherds and evidence of Roman field boundary ditches. The village is mentioned in the

of 1086 as ''Balderwella'' and again in the 'Norwich Domesday Book' of 1291. Alfheah and Godric held Bawdeswell ffom Count Alan, with thirteen freemen, three and a half ploughs, meadow, woodland and ten pigs recorded. Evidence has been found of a church here since about 1100. Bawdeswell was the home of

's Reeve in The Reeve's Prologue and Tale in the

from which the village magazine 'The Reeve's Tale' gets its name. He was "Osewald the Reeve", "''Of Northfolk was this reeve of which I telle, Byside a toun men callen Baldeswelle". There were four coaching inns and a

toll gate Toll Gate or Tollgate may refer to: * Toll gate, a barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid Entertainment * "Tollgate" (Hale single) * ''The Toll-Gate'', a 1954 novel by Georgette Heyer * ''The Toll Gate'', ...

on a

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. It was a busy stopping off point for the changing of horses and coaches, including the

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, for travellers including Walsingham

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s. As with many villages, all the original pubs closed, mostly in the 1920s, but the Bell Inn stayed until 1970 when it was closed and converted into flats. The buildings of the tollhouse and of the four original public houses are now residential dwellings within the conservation area of the village. The tollhouse was built in about 1823 and by the 21st century was semi-derelict but in 2002 work commenced to restore and extend it as a residential dwelling now known as Tollgate Cottage. Chaucer House is reputedly the oldest building in the village dating to the 14th or 15th century and up until 1920 was The Crown Inn (previously Bear Inn) after which it was Crown Farm (farmhouse) before being given its current name. The Ram Inn closed in 1929 and is now a private house 'The Willows'.

Conservation area

The centre of the village has been preserved by the creation of a conservation area in 1975. Breckland District has some 50 Conservation areas in 45 of its 112 parishes.

All Saints' Church

There has been a

on this site since circa 1100, but there are no records before 1313 when the current list of some 58 rectors begins. All Saints is believed to be the only Norfolk village church destroyed in

, having been hit by an

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Mosquito bomber from 608 Squadron at

RAF Downham Market RAF Downham Market was a Royal Air Force station in the west of the county of Norfolk, England which operated during the second half of the Second World War. History RAF Downham Market opened as a satellite station for RAF Marham in the Summe ...

that crashed in the village in November 1944. Sadly, both the crew perished, and there is a memorial plaque in the church made from aircraft parts by John Ames (PCC Secretary 1972–1980 and Churchwarden 1980–1994). The Church was replaced with one of Neo-Georgian design by architect J Fletcher Watson. Bawdeswell is one of 13 parishes in the Heart of Norfolk benefice. which includes Billingford, Bintree,

Foulsham Foulsham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located north-east of Dereham and north-west of Norwich. Foulsham is renowned in the local area for its unspoilt nature and the number of Sixteenth and Sev ...

, Foxley,

Guestwick Guestwick is a villageOS Explorer Map 238 Dereham & Aylsham. and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is south-west of Cromer, north-west of Norwich and north-east of London. The village lies west of the nearby town o ...

, Guist,

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, Stibbard, Themelthorpe, Twyford, Wood Norton and

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. The parish finances are ably supported by 'The Friends of Bawdeswell Church', who with various fund raising events and appeals, contribute towards the maintenance of the church fabric and the cost of heating and insuring it.

Mosquito Crash of 1944

At 20:45 on 6 November 1944, Mosquito KB-364 of

No. 608 Squadron RAF No. 608 (North Riding) Squadron was an Auxiliary Air Force squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. It flew during its existence as a bomber, fighter and reconnaissance unit and was the only RAF squadron to be equipped with t ...

crashed in the village tearing down electricity cables on Reepham Road and setting All Saints' Church alight and inflicting significant damage on Barwick House and Chaucer House opposite. Firefighters from the Dereham Fire Brigade and the American contingent at

RAF Attlebridge Royal Air Force Attlebridge or more simply RAF Attlebridge is a former Royal Air Force station located near Attlebridge and northwest of Norwich, Norfolk, England. History Attlebridge airfield had runways of 1,220, 1,120 and 1,080 yards len ...

eventually brought the blaze under control after four hours. It is believed that the Mosquito 'iced up' on the return from a diversionary air-raid on Gelsenkirchen whilst attempting to return to

. Both crew members were killed in the crash and are commemorated by a plaque in the new Bawdeswell Church. The two pilots are listed as: * Pilot Officer James McLean (1918-1944) * Sergeant Mervyn L. Tansley (1923-1944)

Places of Interest

Bawdeswell Hall is a

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d building dating from 1683. Originally built by a Henry Eglinton it is now owned by the Gurney family.

Gurney's Bank Gurney's bank was a family-run bank founded by members of the Gurney family in 1770 and headquartered in Norwich, England. It merged into Barclays Bank in 1896. History The bank was founded in 1770 by John and Henry Gurney, sons of John Gurney ...

was based in Norwich and connected through marriage to

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of London with which it merged along with

Backhouse's Bank Backhouse's Bank of Darlington (James & Jonathan Backhouse and Co., from 1798 Jonathan Backhouse and Co.) was founded in 1774 by James Backhouse (1720-1798), a wealthy Quaker flax dresser and linen manufacturer, and his sons Jonathan (1747-1826) a ...

of Darlington and several other Provincial banks in 1896 to form what is now Barclays Bank.

Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the tr ...

, the famous prison reformer, was born a Gurney, and the portrait from which the image previously on the reverse of the £5 note was taken hangs on the main staircase in the hall. Chaucer House is reputed to be the oldest surviving building in the village. It was quite badly damaged in the plane crash which destroyed the Church in 1944. Bawdeswell Workhouse was erected in about 1781 as a

workhouse In Britain, a workhouse () was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. (In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses.) The earliest known use of the term ''workhouse' ...

for the Bawdeswell Gilbert Union, serving the parishes of Bawdeswell, Billingford, Bintree, Bylaugh, Foxley, Lyng, and Sparham. The building was no longer required when the new

Gressenhall Gressenhall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The villages name origin is uncertain possibly 'Grassy nook of land' or 'gravelly nook of land'. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,008 in 443 households ...

workhouse was built in 1835 to serve all the parishes in the new Mitford and Launditch Union. The building was then used as a school. It later became a bakery and shop with a blacksmiths shop in outbuildings and an early petrol pump outside, a pub and a private dwelling. Bawdeswell Village Hall was moved from the centre of the village on the site of what is now five houses at Old Woods Green to the recreation ground north of the village in the early 1990s. A modern steel and timber structure was designed but was only one third completed with available funding and the actual hall was not built. It had a high pitched roof and the original plan was for there to be a badminton court in the main hall. Despite these adversities, the hall had reasonable facilities and was well used, but its size restricted it to one activity at a time. A new larger hall was initially planned through Project Bawdeswell but this was taken over by the Village Hall Committee. A new community hall with a larger hall and two further activity rooms, improved toilet, kitchen and storage facilities and an outside patio area, has been built with help from the

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. Bawdeswell Recreation Grounds includes a football pitch, a basketball/short tennis court and a play area which was rebuilt in 2010. Bawdeswell Heath is all that remains of a huge area of

common land Common land is land owned by a person or collectively by a number of persons, over which other persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel. A person who has a ...

following the

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acts in the late 18th and early to mid 19th centuries. There are in total that can be accessed from Dereham Road with parking available about 1/2-mile Southwest of the A1067 or by foot from 'The Layby' in Billingford Road about 1/3-mile West of the A1067. The Heath is administered by a board of trustees except for administered by the Parish Council as trustees. Adam's Pit is a small pond/wildlife sanctuary situated at the junction of Dereham Road and Paradise Lane immediately to the north of the A1067 road. It is held in trust by the Parish Council and has recently been transformed from a muddy overgrown pond to a well-managed wildlife conservation area. Financial assistance has been received from Norfolk County Council who have also given advice. The origin of its name is unknown.

Schools

Crest on 'Bell Tower', Bawdeswell School - geograph

A free school for twelve boys from Bawdeswell and eight from Foxley was endowed by John Leeds esq. in 1728. From about 1828 there was a school in The Old Workhouse building with up to seventy pupils. The current village primary school was built in 1875 for Bawdeswell, Bylaugh and Foxley at the sole expense of the Rev Henry Lombe of Bylaugh Hall, who was the Lord of the Manor. His family crest is on the front with the motto "PROPOSITI TENAX" (Firm of Purpose). The school had a roll of 100 as of May 2016. Arrangements are now in hand for the school to join the 'Synergy Multi Academy Trust' headed by Reepham School by spring 2017. Most secondary school children attend

Reepham High School Reepham High School and College is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Reepham, a small market town in the English county of Norfolk. It is a specialist Science, Applied Learning and Mathematics & Computing centre ...

Village development

There has been significant development in the village in the last few decades. The population had declined from 410 at the 1891 census to 331 in 1971 increasing to 574 in 1981, 652 in 1991, 766 in 2001 (all census figures) and to 828 in the 2011 census. This increase was in no small way due to the development of the Hall Road and Two Fields Way area plus Paradise Road. Since 2000 the developments at Saxon Meadows, All Saint's Court and Chaucers Heath (Reeve's Close) plus other infill have added at least 24 new houses and the redevelopment of the

sheltered housing Sheltered housing is a term covering a wide range of rented housing for older and/or disabled or other vulnerable people. In the United Kingdom most commonly it refers to grouped housing such as a block or "scheme" of flats or bungalows with a ...

accommodation at Folland Court completed in August 2009 has seen eight larger family houses built. There is considerable opposition within the village to any further large scale development, especially of sixty or so houses on the site near Two Fields Way proposed by the 'Gladedale Group', expressed at the Annual Parish Meeting in May 2007, and the draft Breckland Local Development Framework (LDF) has not listed Bawdeswell for any significant development. Recently, planning permission has been granted for 2 more houses in Saxon Meadows. Parish Council Policy has been to resist attempts to make Bawdeswell an LSC (Local Service Centre) and to opt for minor development only within the existing development boundary and to accept two small sites to be included in a minor adjustment of the settlement boundary. Breckland Council's Core Strategy which does not list Bawdeswell as an LSC or for any significant development has been broadly accepted by The Planning Inspectorate in their report. and was adopted on 17 December 2009. The Breckland LDF Task & Finish Group examined ten site specific submissions for the village and rejected all of them. A development of some 40 houses on a site off Hall Road now known as Bluebell Rise was completed in early 2021. This development means that the village has virtually tripled in size since the 1961 census. Bawdeswell has now been identified as a 'Local Service Centre' in the draft Breckland District Council Local Plan. This plan shows that no further large developments will be required in the foreseeable future as the site shown for development has been completed with 40 houses compared with the required 30 up to 2036.

Transport

Bawdeswell is situated on the X29 bus route between Norwich and Fakenham with a regular daytime service.

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is distant by road. There is a service to and from London and frequent trains to Cambridge, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, Cromer and Sheringham plus a cross country service to Liverpool. Norwich International Airport is by road from Bawdeswell and can be reached in about 25 minutes by car. A community car scheme for transport to medical appointments is run by the Parish Council with financial assistance from Breckland Council.

Governance

The parish council consists of seven councillors and a parish clerk. The council has ten meetings each year. The election for the seven parish councillors due to be held on Thursday 2 May 2019, was uncontested as there were only six nominees and the Returning Officer declared that these six were elected. The remaining position has been filled by co-option. Westminster – The village is part of the Mid Norfolk Parliamentary Constituency, the Member of Parliament being

George Freeman (politician) George William Freeman (born 12 July 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation. He has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Norfolk since 2010. He served as P ...

(Conservative). The last election was held on 12 December 2019.

– Bawdeswell is in the Elmham and Mattishall Division and the councillor is Bill Borrett (Conservative). The last election was held in May 2017 and elections are held every four years.

– Bawdeswell was until May 2015 part of Eynsford ward but following the 2015 changes to electoral boundaries is now in a new 'Upper Wensum' ward with 2 councillors – Gordon Bambridge (Conservative) and Bill Borrett (Conservative) elected. The last election was held on 2 May 2019 and elections are held every four years.

War Memorial

Bawdeswell's War Memorial is a brass plaque in All Saints' 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 ...

: * Lance-Corporal Albert Tooley (1893-1917), 10th Battalion,

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* Lance-Corporal Frederick Riseborough (1895-1916), 5th Battalion,

Northumberland Fusiliers The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Raised in 1674 as one of three 'English' units in the Dutch Anglo-Scots Brigade, it accompanied William III to England in the November 1688 Glorious Revolution ...

* Bombadier Richard Johnson (d.1917), 120th Siege Battery,

Royal Garrison Artillery The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) ...

* Private Edmund Mortimer (d.1917), 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment * Private James Walker (1890-1918), 387th Company, Labour Corps * Private George H. Bugdale (1894-1917), 8th Battalion,

South Lancashire Regiment The South Lancashire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment, which recruited, as its title suggests, primarily from the South Lancashire area, was created as part of the Childers Re ...

* Private Charles Hatley (d.1916), 1st 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 Percy Wright (d.1914), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Russell W. Tooley (1896-1915), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Walter Johnson (d.1917), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Private Roydon F. T. Rix (1893-1915), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Alfred E. Baker * Frederick Clarke * James Curry * Stanley Sadler And, the following for 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 Colin E. Johnson (1919-1944),

Royal Army Ordnance Corps The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In the supply area it had responsibility for weapons, armoured vehicles and other military equip ...

* Private George H. Parke (1923-1943), Royal Army Ordnance CorpsRoll of Honour. (2004). Retrieved October 10, 2022. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Norfolk/Bawdeswell.html

Notes

External links

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