North Creake
| North Creake | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 North Creake village centre | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF853381 |
| Location: | 52°54’30"N, 0°45’15"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 386 (2011) |
| Post town: | Fakenham |
| Postcode: | NR21 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | King's Lynn and West Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North West Norfolk |
North Creake is a village in the north-west of Norfolk, on the River Burn, which flows through the centre of the village.
It had a recorded population of 386 at the 2011 Census.
The village stands three miles south of Burnham Market and about five miles from the north Norfolk coast. A mile further south is the village of South Creake.
A mile to the north of the village, along the river, stand the ruins of Creake Abbey. The village itself has a church, a public house and a post office. Most of the agricultural land surrounding the village, and many of the village houses, today belong to the estate of the Earl Spencer, although his family seat is many miles away in Althorp, Northamptonshire.
St Mary's, the Church of England parish church, is a Grade I listed building.[1]
On 27 April 1944, a de Havilland Mosquito fighter bomber on a night training exercise crashed in the centre of the village, killing the crew of two. On the 60th anniversary of the crash in 2004, a plaque on the approximate location of the crash was unveiled by a Royal Air Force guard of honour and other dignitaries, including relatives and friends of those killed.
South Creake is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Suthcreich".[2]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about North Creake) |
- Photographs of North & South Creake
- Norfolkcoast.co.uk on North Creake
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1077816: Church of St Mary (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 123 ISBN 0198691033