Moulton St Mary
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Moulton St Mary is a small village and ancient parish in the in the Walsham hundred of Norfolk, about two miles south of Acle. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Beighton, into which the civil parish was merged in 1935. The village has a garden centre and a car garage.
The villages name origin is uncertain 'Mula's farm/settlement' or 'mule farm/settlement'.[1]
Its Church of St Mary is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. It has a canonical sundial on the south wall. The church is redundant and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2]
References
- ↑ [http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Moulton%20St.%20Mary Key to English Place-Names: Moulton St Mary]
- ↑ St Mary, Moulton, Churches Conservation Trust, archived from the original on 2 October 2009, https://web.archive.org/web/20091002065717/http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/findachurch/st-mary-moulton/?region=Norfolk&offset=1, retrieved 20 December 2010
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