Frettenham
| Frettenham | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 Frettenham village sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG246174 |
| Location: | 52°42’31"N, 1°19’26"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 844 (2021) |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR12 |
| Dialling code: | 01603 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broadland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broadland and Fakenham |
Frettenham is a village in Norfolk, three miles west of Wroxham and five and a half miles north of Norwich.
The 2021 census recorded a population of 844 souls.
History
Frettenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Fræta's homestead or village.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Frettenham is listed as a settlement of 34 households in the Taverham Hundred. 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]
St Swithin's Church
Frettenham's parish church, St Swithin's, dates from the fourteenth century. It stands outside the village on Church Lane. It is a Grade II listed building.[5] Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the church has not been open for Sunday worship.[6]
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.[7]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ Frettenham in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "Norfolk Mills - Frettenham tower windmill". https://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/frettenham-towermill.html.
- ↑ "MNF13617 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF13617.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1372955: Church of St Swithin
- ↑ "Frettenham: St Swithin" (in en). https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/6727/.
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/frettenham/frettenham.htm.