Warham, Norfolk
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Warham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated about Script error: No such module "convert". inland from the north Norfolk coast, Script error: No such module "convert". south-east of the town of Wells-next-the-Sea and Script error: No such module "convert". north-west of the city of Norwich.[1]
The villages name means 'Weir homestead/village'.[2]
The civil parish has an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and in the 2001 census and the 2011 Census had a population of 193 in 79 households.[3] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.[4]
This small village has two large medieval churches, and used to have three. The present Church of England parish church All Saints' with its collapsed west tower, is in the village centre near the pub; St Mary Magdalene is about Script error: No such module "convert". to the west. All Saints' is Grade II* listed; St Mary's Grade I. Originally there were three ecclesiastical parishes here, but the parishes were merged after the English Reformation.[5] In the process, the church of St Mary the Virgin was demolished. It used to stand just east of All Saints, on the other side of the lane to Wighton.[6]
Just south of the village is Warham Camp, a small hill fort earthwork built by the Iceni in the 2nd century BC, known locally as 'the Danish Camp'.[7]
The village has a tiny request stop - Warham railway station - on the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway.[8]
References
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- ↑ Ordnance Survey (2002). OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central. Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
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- ↑ Batcock: Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk 1991, p55
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External links
- Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". for Warham, Norfolk
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Warham All Saints parish.
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Warham St Mary Magdalen parish.
- Information from NorfolkCoast.co.uk on Warham.