Felthorpe is a village and
civil parish in the
English county of
Norfolk. The village is located east of
Dereham and north-west of
Norwich.
History
Felthorpe's name is of mixed
Anglo-Saxon
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and
Viking origin and derives from an amalgamation of the
Old Norse and
Old English
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for Faela's outlying farmstead or settlement.
In the
Domesday Book, Felthorpe is listed as a settlement of 45 households in the
hundred of
Taverham. In 1086, the village was divided between the
East Anglian estates of
King William I,
Alan of Brittany, Ralph de Beaufour,
Walter Giffard
Walter Giffard (April 1279) was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York.
Family
Giffard was a son of Hugh Giffard of Boyton in Wiltshire,Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 6: York: Archbishops' a royal justic ...
and Reginald, son of Ivo.
Felthorpe Watermill stood in the village, on a small tributary of the
River Wensum, since the later-Medieval period. In 1883, the mill was upgraded with a steam engine and subsequently demolished in 1927 though some foundations of the building and the
wheelrace remain. Felthorpe Windmill stood within the parish from the late-Eighteenth Century and closed sometime in the early-Twentieth Century. The land has reverted to agricultural use.
Felthorpe Hall was built in the Nineteenth Century as a manor house and still stands today as a
Grade II listed
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private residence. The hall was used as a
Red Cross convalescence hospital during the
First and
Second World Wars.
Geography
According to the
2011 Census, Felthorpe has a population of 745 residents living in 308 households. Furthermore, the parish has a total area of .
Felthorpe falls within the
constituency
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of
Broadland and is represented at
Parliament by
Jerome Mayhew MP of the
Conservative Party. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the
district of
Broadland.
St. Margaret's Church
Felthorpe's parish church is dedicated to
Saint Margaret of Antioch
Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr ( grc-gre, Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in the Western Rite Orthodoxy, Roman Catholic Church and Anglicanism, ...
and dates from the Seventeenth Century, with significant Nineteenth Century restoration to the exterior and interior. St. Margaret's has a good range of stained-glass installed by
Ward and Hughes with a further stone memorial plaque to Richard Inglett Fortescue Weston Conway who died in the British colony of
Demerara in 1856.
Felthorpe Air Crash
In June 1966, a
Hawker Siddeley Trident jetliner crashed in the parish after the aircraft entered into a
deep stall and the pilot failed to correct it. The aircraft was on a test flight from
Hatfield Aerodrome and all four passengers were killed in the crash.
Amenities
The village
public house has stood on its current site since the end of the Eighteenth Century and is still open today. The Mariner's Arms has been previously operated by
Bullard's of Norwich, Watney-Mann and
Brent Walker but today operates as a freehouse.
War Memorial
St. Margaret's Church holds two memorials to the
First World War, one a carved church screen detailing the men of Felthorpe who died during the conflict and a framed Roll of Honour with all the names of the men who served. The memorial lists the following men as fallen during the First World War:
* L-Cpl. George C. Stannard (1894-1918),
49th (Edmonton) Battalion
The 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War.
History
The 49th Battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 3 June 1915. It dise ...
,
Canadian Expeditionary Force
The Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) was the expeditionary field force of Canada during the First World War. It was formed following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany on 15 August 1914, with an initial strength of one infantry division ...
* Gnr. Sidney G. Palmer (1890-1918), 133rd (Heavy) Battery,
Royal Garrison Artillery
* Pvt. H. James Dack (d.1916), 8th Battalion,
Royal Norfolk Regiment
* Pvt. Brian T. Betts (1897-1917), 7th Battalion,
Suffolk Regiment
The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. It saw service for three centuries, participating in many wars and conflicts, including the First and Second World Wars, before bein ...
* Pvt. Leslie J. Arterton (d.1917), 2nd Battalion,
Queen's Royal Regiment
* Pvt. George Cullum (d.1916), 4th Battalion,
South Wales Borderers
* Pvt. Percy Barney (d.1917), 10th Battalion,
York and Lancaster Regiment
* Arthur H. Miller
* Frank Wilkinson
[ Peck, M. (2019). Retrieved December 30, 2022. https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/209894 ]
References
External links
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Broadland
Villages in Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk