Trunch is a village and

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, England, situated three miles north of North Walsham and two miles from the

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Mundesley Mundesley /ˈmʌndz.li/ is a coastal village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is north-north east of Norwich, south east of Cromer and north east of London. The village lies north-north east of the town of Nort ...

. At the Census 2011 the village had a

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of 909. The parish covers an area of . The villages name origin is uncertain perhaps, 'upland wood'. Trunch never had any rail connections in the village itself but it does have a rail map outside of its pub. Before the 1960s one could go to the next village along (Knapton) to catch a train to Cromer or North Walsham from Paston & Knapton railway station ( M&GN) to catch a train. Now the nearest stations are Gunton and North Walsham.

St Botolph's Parish Church

Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed 14th-century church of

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. The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the

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, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery. Only four such canopies still exist in England. St Botolph's also features a hammerbeam roof with carved angels, as well as medieval misericords under the seats in the chancel. Another medieval survival is the

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depicting 11 disciples and St Paul (their faces were scratched out during the Reformation). Lord Nelson's daughter is said to have been married in the church. In 1589 Robert Thexton became the rector of Trunch. While at

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, Thexton had been the room-mate of Christopher Marlowe the famous, and infamous,

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playwright.

In popular culture

The fictional village of St Just-near-Trunch is known in English folk music as the home of the former

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folk duo, The Kipper Family.

Gallery

File:Trunch Church 10 Nov 2007 (6).JPG, The parish church File:The Methodist Church in Trunch - geograph.org.uk - 1075595.jpg, The Methodist Church File:The Crown Trunch 10 Nov 2007 (1).JPG, The Crown public house, Trunch File:Trunch 10 Nov 2007.JPG, A view of the village

References

External links

Trunch Farmworkers Strike
- Account of 1906 agricultural dispute in the village, fro
EASF
Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk North Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub