Garvestone (or Garveston) is a village in the

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 authority ...

of Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton, located south-east of

Dereham Dereham (), also known as East Dereham, is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Breckland District of the England, English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the A47 road, about 15 miles (25 km) west of the city ...

and north-west of

Wymondham Wymondham ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England, south-west of Norwich, England, Norwich off the A11 road (England), A11 road to London. The River Tiffey runs through ...

. The village is located on the upper reaches of the

River Yare The River Yare is a river in the English county of Norfolk. In its lower reaches it is one of the principal navigable waterways of The Broads and connects with the rest of the network. The river rises south of Dereham to the west to the villag ...

History

Garveston's name is of

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and

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origin and derives from an amalgamation of the

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and

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for Geirulfr's settlement or farmstead. 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 manusc ...

, Garveston is listed as a settlement of 27 households in the

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of Mitford. In 1086, the village was part of the

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estates of

Henry de Ferrers Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England. Origins He was the eldest son of Vauquelin de Ferrers and in about 1040 inherited his father's ...

Geography

According to the 2011 Census, the parish of Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton has a population of 660 residents living in 285 households. Furthermore, the parish has a total area of . Garvestone falls within the

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and is represented at

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by George Freeman MP of the

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. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the

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of Breckland.

St. Margaret's Church

Garvestone's church tower dates from Fourteenth Century and is built in the

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. The

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dates from the Sixteenth Century and holds a stained-glass window depicting the

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which dates from the 1890s.

Notable Residents

* Edward Wright (1561-1615)- English mathematician and cartographer

War Memorial

The war memorial for Garvestone and Thuxton takes the form of a rough-hewn stone cross with a two-stepped plinth, located in St. Margaret's Churchyard. The memorial lists the following men for both villages 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 ...

: * L-Cpl. Sidney E. Jowlings (1894-1917), 7th Bn.,

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 ...

* Gnr. Algernon H. Easlea (1886-1918), 99th (Siege) Bty.,

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) ...

* Pvt. George Stocking (d.1916), 2nd Bn.,

Royal Berkshire Regiment The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959. The regiment was created in 1881, as the Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment), b ...

* Pvt. Colin L. Whitehand (1899-1918), 8th Bn., East Surrey Regiment * Percy Howard * Harry Newson * W. Read * Jesse Ward 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 opposin ...

: * Pvt. C. George Softley (1919-1943), 4th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regt. * Pvt. Robert Frost (1906-1940),

Royal Pioneer Corps The Royal Pioneer Corps was a British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks. It was formed in 1939, and amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993. Pioneer units performed a wide variety of tasks in all theatres of war, in ...

* Ernest Greenwood * James Mann * George Richardson Larkin, D. (2015). Retrieved January 14, 2023. https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/211597/

References

External links

Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk Breckland District {{Norfolk-geo-stub