Lingwood
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| Lingwood | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1497687.jpg) Lingwood Village Sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG363085 |
| Location: | 52°37’23"N, 1°29’26"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR13 |
| Dialling code: | 01603 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broadland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broadland and Fakenham |
Lingwood is a village in Norfolk, two and a half miles south-west of Acle and eight miles east of Norwich.
The village's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for 'bank wood'.[1]
History
Lingwood is not listed in the Domesday Book.
Lingwood Railway Station opened in 1882 on the Great Eastern Railway and remains open as a stop on the Wherry Line for services between Norwich and Great Yarmouth.
St. Peter's Church
Lingwood's church, St Peter's on Church Road, dates from the fourteenth century. It is a Grade I listed building.[2]
St. Peter's holds a set of royal arms from the reign of King George IV as well as a mediæval wall painting of St Christopher which was uncovered in 1965.[3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Lingwood) |
- "Blofield Hundred: Lingwood". British History Online. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/p237. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ National Heritage List 1051521: Church of St Peter (Grade I listing)
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/lingwood/lingwood.htm.