Croxton 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

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county of

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, within the

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of Breckland. Croxton is located 2.2 miles north of

Thetford Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just east of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, covering an area of , in 2015 had a population of 24, ...

and 26 miles south-east of

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History

Croxton's name is of mixed Anglo-Saxon and

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

origin deriving from an amalgamation of the

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and

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for 'Krokr's' farmstead or settlement. 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 ...

, Croxton is recorded as a settlement of 21 households in the

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of Grimshoe. In 1086, the village was part of the estate of King William.

Geography

According to the 2011 Census, Croxton has 445 residents living in 194 households. Croxton falls within the constituency of South West Norfolk and is represented at

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by Liz Truss MP of the Conservative Party.

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.

War Memorial

All Saints' Church holds an elaborate wooden carved memorial to the fallen from 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 ...

, listing the following names: * Captain Duncan C. Graham (d.1917), 7th 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 ...

* 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,

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* Private George Boughen (1896-1916), 3/1st Brigade, Norfolk Yeomanry * Private George Vincent (1886-1917), 7th Battalion,

North Staffordshire Regiment The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was in existence between 1881 and 1959. The 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot was created on 21 April 1758 from the 2nd Battalio ...

* Private Alfred Linge (1899-1918), 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment * Private Alfred H. Gathergood (d.1917), 8th Battalion,

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* Douglas Bell * William Cant * Bertie Cooper * William Haines * William Matthews * Alfred Nichols * William Shinks * Alfred Vincent * Harry Williams 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

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. 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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