Attlebridge
| Attlebridge | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St Andrew's church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG128168 |
| Location: | 52°42’36"N, 1°9’-0"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 223 (2011) |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR9 |
| Dialling code: | 01603 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broadland |
Attlebridge is a village in Norfolk, about eight miles north-west of Norwich, on that city’s own river, the River Wensum, where the A1067 road crosses it.
The wider civil parish had a population of 223 in 96 households at the 2011 Census.
The mediæval parish church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
History
The village is named after an otherwise unknown Anglo-Saxon chieftain named Ætla (which is also the name by which Atilla the Hun was known in Old English literature). The nearby bridge over the Wensum provides the suffix: it is assumed that Ætla built the first bridge here.[2]
Between the 1880s and 1950s the settlement had its own Attlebridge railway station offering direct trains to Norwich and Kings Lynn. It was eventually closed as a cost-cutting measure by British Rail.
During Second World War a nearby airfield, designated RAF Attlebridge, was used as an airfield for launching Allied aircraft missions against targets in Occupied Europe.[3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Attlebridge) |
- Information on Attlebridge from GENUKI
- Information from Broadland District Council on Attlebridge.
- Attlebridge in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1372661: Attlebridge
- ↑ Information from Broadland District Council on Attlebridge. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
- ↑ Information about RAF Attlebridge airfield from ControlTowers.co.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2007.