Brandon Parva

Brandon Parva
Brandon Parva Location within Norfolk
OS grid reference	TG073078
Civil parish	Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Norwich
Postcode district	NR9
Dialling code	01362
UK Parliament	Mid Norfolk
List of places UK England Norfolk 52°37′42″N1°03′42″E / 52.62835°N 1.06157°E / 52.62835; 1.06157

Brandon Parva is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne, in the English county of Norfolk.

Brandon Parva is located 6.4 miles (10.3 km) south-east of Dereham and 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west of Norwich.

History

Brandon Parva's name is of mixed Anglo-Saxon and Roman origin and derives from the Old English for a settlement with a thorny bush on top of a hill and the Latin for a small settlement. ^[1]

In the Domesday Book, Brandon Parva is recorded as a settlement of 5 households in the hundred of Forehoe. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of Alan of Brittany. ^[2]

Within the village is the Seventeenth Century red-brick Manor Farmhouse, which has been Grade II listed since 1951. ^[3] Nearby, are a pair of stone gateposts which date from the same period. ^[4]

On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Runhall. ^[5]

Population

In March 2011, the population consisted of approximately 30 people. In 1931 the parish had a population of 111. ^[6]

All Saint's Church

Brandon Parva's parish church dates from the Fifteenth Century and is built in the perpendicular gothic style. The church was significantly restored in the Nineteenth Century with stained-glass installed by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. ^[7] All Saints' has been Grade II listed since 1983. ^[8]

Brandon Parva Treehouse

In 2005, four students from the University of East Anglia began erecting a carbon-neutral treehouse in the woods outside of the village. After two years of building, the structure was finally demolished by South Norfolk Council in 2009. ^[9]

Governance

Brandiston is part of the electoral ward of Wicklewood for local elections and is part of the district of South Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is Mid Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative Party's George Freeman since 2010.

War memorial

Brandon Parva's war memorial takes the form of two marble plaques, located within All Saints' Church. It lists the following names for the First World War: ^[10]

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of Death	Other Commemoration / Burial
LCpl.	Cecil H. Norton	14th (Royal Montreal) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force	29 Apr. 1915	Menin Gate
Pte.	Harry Purling	1/4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment	17 May 1918	All Saints' Churchyard, Brandon Parva
Pte.	George R. Allen	11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers	25 Oct. 1916	Regina Trench Cemetery,Grandcourt
Pte.	George Dixon-Sutton	2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers	2 Sep. 1918	Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery
Pte.	Russel Pitchers	2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment	12 Oct. 1916	Wandsworth Cemetery, Earlsfield
Pte.	William Dixon-Sutton	7th Battalion, Norfolk Rgt.	9 Aug. 1918	Communal Cemetery, Niederzwehren
Pte.	William Pitchers	9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment	24 Aug. 1915	Chatby War Cemetery,Alexandria

And, the following for the Second World War: ^[11]

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of Death	Other Commemoration / Burial
LAC	Sidney D. Thurston	Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve	6 Jul. 1942	Cemetery, Minden

References

1. "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
2. "Brandon [Parva] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
3. "MANOR FARMHOUSE, Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne - 1152137 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
4. "GATE PIERS TO MANOR FARMHOUSE, Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne - 1050720 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
5. "Relationships and changes Brandon Parva AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 7 February 2023.
6. "Population statistics Brandon Parva AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
7. "Norfolk Churches". www.norfolkchurches.co.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
8. "CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne - 1373067 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
9. BBC News. (2009). Retrieved November 9, 2022. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/8249478.stm
10. "War Memorial All Saints Church - Brandon Parva - TracesOfWar.com". www.tracesofwar.com. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
11. "Geograph:: Brandon Parva Second World War Memorial © Adrian S Pye". www.geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2024.