Hindolveston

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Hindolveston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish also includes the hamlets of Nethergate and Thurning.

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History

Hindolveston's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Hindwulf's settlement.[1]

In the Domesday Book, Hindolveston is listed as a settlement of 17 households in the hundred of Eynesford. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of William de Beaufeu.[2]

In 1844, a towermill was constructed in the village which closed in 1908.[3]

Hindolvestone Railway Station opened in 1882 as a stop on the Norwich Branch of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between Cromer and Norwich City. The station closed in 1959.

In December 1943, Vickers Wellington BK440 of No. 26 Operational Training Unit crashed in the parish after taking off from RAF Little Horwood. In 1985, excavations of the crash site managed to extract one of the propellers.[4][5]

Geography

According to the 2021 census, Hindolveston has a population of 599 people which shows an increase from the 598 people recorded in the 2011 census.[6]

St. George's Church

Hindolveston's parish church is dedicated to Saint George and dates from the 1930s. St. George's is located within the village on Church Lane and has been Grade II listed since 1959.[7] The church is no longer open for Sunday service.[8]

St. George's was built to replace the earlier St. George's Church which collapsed in August 1892 under the designs of Herbert John Green and executed by Jonathan Beckett.[9]

Governance

Hindolveston is part of the electoral ward of Stibbard for local elections and is part of the district of North Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is Broadland and Fakenham which has been represented by the Conservative Party's Jerome Mayhew MP since 2019.

War Memorial

Hindolveston War Memorial is a celtic-cross atop a square shaft located at the junction of 'The Street' and Melton Road. The memorial was built by T. H. Blythe of Foulsham, opened by Lord Hastings and lists the following names for the First World War:[10][11][12]

Rank Name Unit Date of Death Burial/Commemoration
Cpl. Edward J. English 9th Bn., Norfolk Regiment 11 Oct. 1918 Vis-en-Artois Memorial
LCpl. William F. Barsted 9th Bn., Norfolk Regiment 18 Oct. 1916 Bancourt British Cemetery
LCpl. Frederick W. Eke 11th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment 21 Oct. 1916 Thiepval Memorial
Dvr. Ernest E. Holsey Royal Field Artillery att. 48th Division 3 Nov. 1918 Montecchio Precalcino Cem.
Pte. Richard J. White 4th Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment 23 Jul. 1916 Unknown
Pte. Ernest W. Holsey 1st Bn., Cambridgeshire Regiment 27 Aug. 1917 Tyne Cot
Pte. Charles A. White 26th Bn., Royal Fusiliers 2 Apr. 1918 Arras Memorial
Pte. Elijah Margetson 124th Coy., Labour Corps 2 Sep. 1917 Potijze Château Cemetery
Pte. George Mears 2/5th Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment 26 Sep. 1917 Tyne Cot
Pte. Charles Codling 1st Bn., Norfolk Regiment 21 Apr. 1915 Menin Gate
Pte. William Craske 1st Bn., Norfolk Regt. 25 Oct. 1914 Le Touret Memorial
Pte. Harry Codling 4th Bn., Norfolk Regt. 20 Aug. 1915 Helles Memorial
Pte. Cecil A. Reeve 5th Bn., Norfolk Regt. 19 Apr. 1917 Jerusalem Memorial
Pte. Alfred D. Eke 1st Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment 27 Oct. 1917 Tyne Cot
Pte. John W. Strike 9th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment 29 Sep. 1917 Hargicourt Cemetery

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