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Frettenham
Village in Norfolk, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frettenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
Frettenham is located 3.2 miles (5.1 km) west of Wroxham, and 5.7 miles (9.2 km) north of Norwich.
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History
Frettenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Fraeta's homestead or village.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Frettenham is listed as a settlement of 34 households hundred of Taverham. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of Roger the Poitevin.[2]
Frettenham Windmill dates from the late-Nineteenth Century and is currently a private residence with its sails and fantail removed. The windmill is a Grade II listed building.[3]
During the First World War, a Royal Flying Corps airfield was built in the parish though it soon returned to agricultural use.[4]
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Geography
According to the 2021 census, Frettenham has a population of 844 people which shows an increase from the 740 people recorded in the 2011 census.[5]
Hillside Animal Sanctuary is located within the parish.
St. Swithin's Church
Frettenham's parish church is dedicated to Saint Swithin and dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. Swithin's is located outside of the village on Church Lane and has been Grade II listed since 1961.[6] Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the church has not been open for Sunday worship.[7]
St. Swithin's was restored in the Victorian era by Richard Phipson and holds a monumental brass memorial to Alice Thorndon (d.1420) with further stone memorials to Rev. Richard Woodes (d.1620) and Thomas Drake (d.1810) who was a treasurer aboard HMS Centaur and later a prisoner of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan.[8]
Governance
Frettenham is part of the electoral ward of Buxton for local elections and is part of the district of Broadland.
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
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Frettenham's war memorial takes the form of a stone obelisk above a trapezoid plinth and is located in St. Swithun's Cemetery. The memorial was unveiled in January 1921 by John Cator, High Sheriff of Norfolk and John Willink, Dean of Norwich[9] and lists the following names for the First World War:[10]
The following names were added after the Second World War:
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