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{{Short description|Village in Norfolk, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place 
 | official_name=         Trunch
 | country=               England
 | region=                East of England
 | shire_district=        [[North Norfolk]]
 | shire_county=          [[Norfolk]]
 | civil_parish=          Trunch
 | static_image_name =    Trunch Village sign 10 Nov 2007 (2).JPG
 | static_image_caption = The [[village sign]]
| population = 909
| population_ref = (parish, 2011 census)
  | area_total_km2    = 5.49
 | population_density=    Proper
 | os_grid_reference=     TG2834
 | coordinates  = {{coord|52.86|1.39|display=inline,title}}
 | post_town=             NORTH WALSHAM
 | postcode_area=         NR
 | postcode_district=     NR28
 | dial_code=             01263
 | constituency_westminster= [[North Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|North Norfolk]]
 | london_distance=     134         
}}

'''Trunch''' is a village and [[parish]] in [[Norfolk]], England,<ref>{{cite book|title=Norfolk Coast East|year=2008|publisher=Ordnance Survey|isbn=978-0319467268}}</ref> situated three miles north of [[North Walsham]] and two miles from the [[coast]] at [[Mundesley]].  At the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|Census 2011]] the village had a [[population]] of 909.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trunch (Norfolk)|url=http://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-eastofengland.php?cityid=E34002652|work=City Population|access-date=25 October 2013}}</ref> The parish covers an area of {{convert|5.5|km2}}.

Trunch has never had any rail connections in the village itself but it does have a rail map outside 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]] ([[Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway|M&GN]]) to catch a train. Now the nearest stations are Gunton and North Walsham.

==Etymology==
The name ''Trunch'' is first attested in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, as ''Trunchet'', a form found into the thirteenth century. The form ''Truch'' appears in 1203 and the form ''Trunch'' is first attested in 1254. The name has occasioned considerable uncertainty. An old suggestion that the name comes from {{ill|Abbey of Our Lady of Tronchet|lt=Tronchet|fr|Abbaye Notre-Dame du Tronchet}}, a French monastery that owned land in Norfolk, fell out of favour by the twenty-first century. The second element of the name is instead accepted to be the [[Common Brittonic]] word found in modern Welsh as {{lang|cy|coed}} ("woodland"). The origin of the first element has also occasioned debate, with a word related to Welsh {{lang|cy|trwyn}} ("nose, headland") being mooted. But in 2000, [[Andrew Breeze]] concluded that the first element was related to Welsh {{lang|cy|trum}} ("back") and that the name once meant "ridge by a wood".<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. ''Trunch''.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Coates |first=Richard |title=Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain |last2=Breeze |first2=Andrew |publisher=Tyas |year=2000 |isbn=1900289415 |location=Stamford}}.</ref>{{rp|173–75}}

==St Botolph's Parish Church==<!-- linked from redirect page -->
Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed<ref>{{NHLE |num=1306175 |accessdate=1 August 2012}}</ref> 14th-century church of [[St Botolph]].<ref>{{cite web|title=St Botolph, Trunch|url=http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trunch/trunch.htm|work=Norfolk Churches|access-date=25 October 2013}}</ref> The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the [[twelve Apostles]], a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Bill|title=Norfolk 1: Norwich and North East|year=1997|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0300096070}}</ref> Only four such canopies still exist in England. St Botolph's also features a [[hammerbeam roof]] with carved angels, as well as medieval [[misericord]]s under the seats in the chancel. Another medieval survival is the [[rood screen]] 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 [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]], Thexton had been the roommate of [[Christopher Marlowe]], the famous, and infamous, [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] playwright.<ref>{{cite book|last=Riggs|first=David|title=The World of Christopher Marlowe|year=2004|publisher=Henry Holt and Co.|isbn=9780805077551|page=[https://archive.org/details/worldofchristoph00rigg/page/67 67]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/worldofchristoph00rigg/page/67}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
The fictional village of St Just-near-Trunch is known in [[English folk music]] as the home of the former [[satire|satirical]] folk duo, [[The Kipper Family]].

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="132">
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
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Trunch}}
*[http://www.easf.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=1910:_The_Trunch_farmworkers_strike Trunch Farmworkers Strike] - Account of 1906 agricultural dispute in the village, from [http://www.easf.org.uk EASF].

{{Civil Parishes of North Norfolk}}


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[[Category:Villages in Norfolk]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Norfolk]]
[[Category:North Norfolk]]
[[Category:Norfolk places with etymologically Brittonic names]]

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