Cringleford is a civil parish and village in the

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county of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort ...

. The village sits on 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 villa ...

and forms part of the outskirts of

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History

Cringleford's name is of mixed

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and

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origin and derives from an amalgamation of the Old English and

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for a circular ford over the River Yare. 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 ...

, Cringleford is listed as a settlement of 25 households located in the

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of Humbleyard. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of

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, Alan of Brittany and Roger Bigod.

Geography

According to the 2011 Census, Cringleford has a population of 2,963 residents living in 1,275 households. Cringleford falls within the constituency of

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and is represented at

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by Richard Bacon MP of the Conservative Party.

St. Peter's Church

Cringleford's parish church is of

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origin and is dedicated to

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. The tower was significantly remodelled in the Fourteenth Century with a further aisle being added in the late Nineteenth Century. The stained glass was installed in the early Twentieth Century by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake with a further depiction of

Saint Andrew Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Pete ...

completed by Herbert Bryans.

Amenities

The majority of local children attend Cringleford Church of England Primary School which was recently extensively refurbished and extended. In 2017, Cringleford Primary was rated by Ofsted as 'Outstanding.'

Sports

Cringleford Lodge Cricket Club was founded in 2000 after the merger of Cringleford C.C. and Earlham Lodge C.C. Cringleford Junior Football Club was founded in 2005 and is open to Children between ages 5 and 17.

War Memorial

Cringleford's war memorial takes the form of a carved wooden plaque located inside St. Peter's Church. It lists the following names for the

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: * Captain Kenneth N. W. Gibson (1888-1918), 32nd Battery,

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* Lieutenant Norman Ayris (1891-1915), 98th (Field) Company, Royal Engineers * Private John Thrower (d.1916), 11th Battalion,

Durham Light Infantry The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1968. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and ...

* Private William Shorten (1880-1916), 25th (Nova Scotia Rifles) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force * Private Arthur E. Denmark (1882-1914), 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 Ernest Elsey (d.1915), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Boy-Second Class Henry P. Fickling (1901-1918), '' HMS Powerful'' * Harold Bloomfield * William Broom * Leslie Bryant * John Moore * Charles Smith And, the following for the

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: * Lieutenant-Commander Stanley L. Garrett (1905-1942), ''HMS Anking'' * Captain Maurice P. Gaymer (1916-1942), 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment * Flight-Lieutenant Cyril D. G. Garland (1904-1942), No. 80 Squadron RAF * Corporal William A. C. Bond (1919-1944), No. 614 Squadron RAF * Lance-Corporal Percy H. J. Clark (d.1941),

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, inc ...

St. Peter's Church is also home to a second wooden plaque with a Roll of Honour listing the men of Cringleford who fought and returned from the First World War. Hill, M. (2013). Retrieved December 20, 2022. https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/152775/

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