Great Plumstead
| Great Plumstead | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
| File:Great Plumstead St. Mary's church - geograph.org.uk - 2199429.jpg St Mary's Church, Great Plumstead | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG301101 |
| Location: | 52°38’25"N, 1°23’58"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broadland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broadland and Fakenham |
Great Plumstead is a village in Norfolk, to the north-east of Norwich. To the north stands Little Plumstead.
The village is four and a half miles south of Wroxham and five miles east of Norwich.
History
Plumstead's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for 'plum-tree place'.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Great and Little Plumstead are listed together as a settlement in the Blofield Hundred.[2]
In the mid-twentieth century, a hospital was set up in the grounds of Little Plumstead Hall treating patients with mental health issues. The building was eventually closed after an arson attack.[3]
During the Second World War, a starfish decoy site was built in Plumstead to draw Luftwaffe bombers away from Norwich.[4]
St. Mary's Church
Great Plumstead's church, St Mary on Church Road, dates from the eighteenth century. It is a Grade II listed building.[5]
Many of the mediæval features of the church were destroyed in a fire in 1891, with the church tower being subsequently rebuilt.[6]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Great Plumstead) |
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ and Little Plumstead Great Plumstead in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "The Abandoned Little Plumstead Hospital in Norwich" (in en-GB). 2023-12-13. https://www.abandonedyorkshire.com/home/Little%20Plumstead%20Hospital.
- ↑ "mnf11783 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf11783.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1152889: Church of St Mary The Virgin (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Great Plumstead". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/greatplumstead/index.html.