Arminghall
| Arminghall | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St Mary's Church, Arminghall | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 52°35’23"N, 1°19’27"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR14 |
| Dialling code: | 01508 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Norfolk |
Arminghall is a village in Norfolk, three miles south-east of Norwich. Most of the houses in the village are located close to the church, which lies just west of the B1332 road from Norwich to Poringland.
Syfer Technology, an electronic components manufacturer, is based at Old Stoke Road, close to the River Tas. In 1931 the parish had a population of 108.[1]
History
The name 'Arminghall' means 'Nook of land of Ambre's/Eanmaer's people'. The exact form of the personal name is uncertain.[2] Arminghall was recorded in the Domesday Book as Hameringahala.[3] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Bixley.[4] In 2019 Bixley parish was abolished to form "Caistor St Edmund and Bixley".
Arminghall Henge
In 1929 a prehistoric timber circle and henge monument site was discovered a mile and a half north-west of Arminghall village by Gilbert Insall who had been taking aerial photographs of the area in search of new archaeological sites. Whilst flying at around 2,000 feet he noticed cropmarks of a circular enclosure made of two concentric rings with a horseshoe of eight pit-like markings within it. The entire site was around 80 yards in diameter.
The site was visited a week later by O.G.S. Crawford, who pronounced it to be the Norwich Woodhenge but it was not until 1935 that it was first excavated, by Grahame Clark. His work established that two circular rings were ditches, the outer one five feet deep and the inner one 9 feet deep, with indications of a bank that once stood between them. The pits in the middle were postholes for timbers that would have been almost 1 m in diameter. The site dates to the Neolithic, with a radiocarbon date of 3650-2650 Cal BC (4440±150) from charcoal from a post-pit. The henge is orientated on the mid-winter sunset, which, when viewed from the henge, sets down the slope of nearby high ground, Chapel Hill.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Arminghall) |
- Arminghall Church: Norfolk Churches
- Information on Arminghall from GENUKI
- Arminghall Henge on The Modern Antiquarian
- Megalithic Portal: Arminghall Henge
- Arminghall Henge in Virtual Reality
- Arminghall Man - poem by Cameron Self
- Arminghall in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ "Population statistics Arminghall CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10096844/cube/TOT_POP. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Arminghall.
- ↑ "Norfolk A-C". The Domesday Book Online. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/norfolk1.html#arminghall. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ↑ "Relationships and changes Arminghall CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10096844. Retrieved 20 September 2022.