Baconsthorpe
| Baconsthorpe | |
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 Saint Mary parish church, Baconsthorpe, Norfolk | |
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| Area | 5.53 km2 (2.14 sq mi) |
| Population | 215 (parish, 2011 census) |
| • Density | 39/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TG120370 |
| • London | 130 miles (210 km) |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HOLT |
| Postcode district | NR25 |
| Dialling code | 01263 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
Baconsthorpe is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district of the English county of Norfolk. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Holt, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Sheringham and 20 miles (32 km) north of Norwich.[1]
Population and governance
[edit | edit source]The civil parish has an area of 5.53 square kilometres (2.14 sq mi). In the 2001 census it had a population of 232 in 105 households. This fell to 215 at the Census 2011,[2] and was estimated at 216 in 2019.[3] For local government, the parish is in the district of North Norfolk.[4]
Heritage
[edit | edit source]The village's name derives from "Bacon's outlying farm/settlement", Bacon being the surname of the local landowner in Norman times.
The ruins of the 15th-century Baconsthorpe Castle lie about one mile (1.6 km) to the north of the village.
The medieval Anglican Church of St Mary was restored in 1868 and 1958. It contains monuments from the 15th–18th centuries and some 16th-century glass saved from the castle.[5]
Notable residents
[edit | edit source]- John Baconthorpe [sic] or Bacon (c. 1290–1347), Carmelite friar and scholastic philosopher, born at Baconsthorpe
- John Heydon or Baxter (died 1479) rose from the yeomanry to become prominent as a lawyer.
- Sir Henry Heydon (died 1504), lawyer, courtier and landowner, died at Baconsthorpe.
- Sir Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), soldier, astrologer, and a county member of Parliament for Norfolk, ran his Norfolk estates from Baconsthorpe Castle.
- Robert Brightiffe (c. 1666–1749), a barrister and a member of Parliament for Norwich and recorder there, was born at his father's house in Baconsthorpe.[6]
References
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- ^ City Population. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
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- ^ John Venn, "Brightiffe, Robert", in Alumni Cantabrigienses (Part I, from earliest times to 1751, vol. i Abbas–Cutts; Cambridge University Press, 1922)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Baconsthorpe
- Baconsthorpe in the Domesday Book
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