Quarles
| Quarles | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 Entrance to the hamlet of Quarles in Norfolk | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF883387 |
| Location: | 52°54’47"N, 0°47’54"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Wells-Next-The-Sea |
| Postcode: | NR23 |
| Dialling code: | 01328 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Norfolk |
Quarles is a hamlet near of Holkham, in the north of Norfolk. It is to be found four miles south-west of Wells-next-the-Sea and 34 miles north-west of the county town, Norwich. The hamlet is just south of the Holkham Estate and consists of six houses and one farm. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 38.[1]
History
Quarles has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085.[2] In the great book Quarles is recorded by the names Gueruelei, and Huerueles, the genitive form of a personal name, i.e. "[The place] of Gueruel/Hueruel". The manor was Kings Land and the main landholder was Roger Bigot; his main tenant was Thurston Fitzguy.
The village is attested from the 1175 Norfolk Feet of Fines manuscript as "Warfles".[3]
Quarles was formerly an extra-parochial tract,[4] from 1858 Quarles was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Great Walsingham,[5] it was transferred to Holkham in 1947.
References
- ↑ "Population Statistics Quarles ExP/AP/CP through time". Vision of Britain. http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10198914/cube/TOT_POP.
- ↑ The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Norfolk page 192, Quarles, ISBN 1-85833-440-3
- ↑ Reaney, P. H.; Wilson, R. M. (1997). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford University Press. p. 367. ISBN 0-198-60092-5. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofengl0000rean.
- ↑ "History of Quarles in North Norfolk". A Vision of Britain through Time. https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5550. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ↑ Vision of Britain