Colton, Norfolk

Colton
St. Andrew's Church
Colton Location within Norfolk
OS grid reference	TG109098
Civil parish	Marlingford and Colton
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR9
Dialling code	01603
UK Parliament	South Norfolk
List of places UK England Norfolk 52°38′43″N1°06′58″E / 52.645147°N 1.116226°E / 52.645147; 1.116226

Colton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Marlingford and Colton, in the English county of Norfolk.

Colton is located 8.3 miles (13.4 km) south of Reepham and 7.7 miles (12.4 km) west of Norwich.

History

Colton's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Cola's farmstead or settlement. ^[1]

Colton was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Coletuna, ^[2] a settlement of 2 households in the hundred of Forehoe. The village was part of the estate of William de Warenne. ^[3]

On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Marlingford. ^[4] In 2001 the new parish was renamed "Marlingford and Colton". ^[5]

The Norfolk Lurcher pub on High House Farm Lane ^[6] which first opened in 1991 was called the Ugly Bug Inn until 2007. ^[7]

Geography

In 1931, the parish had a population of 175. ^[8] This was the last time separate population statistics were collated for Colton.

St. Andrew's Church

Colton's parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. Andrew's is located on Church Lane and has been Grade II listed since 1983. ^[9]

St. Andrew's was re-roofed in the Seventeenth Century and restored in the Victorian era. The church boasts a Victorian organ and a Medieval wall-painting depicting the dangers of gossip. ^[10]

Governance

Colton is part of the electoral ward of Easton for local elections and is part of the district of South Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is South Norfolk which has been represented by the Labour Party's Ben Goldsborough MP since 2024.

War Memorial

Colton's war memorial are two plaques (one stone and another brass) located inside St. Andrew's Church. The stone memorial lists the following names for the First World War: ^[11]

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of Death	Burial
LCpl.	Herbert Brown	9th Bn., Norfolk Regiment	1 May 1917	Loos Memorial
LCpl.	Frederick H. Davey	9th Bn., Suffolk Regiment	25 Sep. 1915	Loos Memorial
Pte.	Daniel A. Shingles	5th Bn., Duke of Wellington's Regiment	4 Sep. 1918	Denain Cemetery
Pte.	Edward Loveday	1/5th Bn., East Surrey Regiment	26 Mar. 1919	All Saints' Churchyard
Pte.	Reginald Stone	7th Bn., Norfolk Regiment	12 Oct. 1916	Cabaret-Rouge Cem.
Pte.	George I. Fenn	11th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment	21 Oct. 1916	Thiepval Memorial

And, the brass memorial lists the following name for the Second World War:

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of Death	Burial
Mne.	Graham G. Dunnell	Royal Marines att. HMS Hood	24 May 1941	Portsmouth Naval Memorial

References

1. "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
2. "Norfolk A-C". The Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
3. "Colton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
4. "Relationships and Changes Colton CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
5. "The Parish of Marlingford (change of name) order 2001" (PDF). South Norfolk Council . Retrieved 30 August 2019.
6. "About Us". The Norfolk Lurcher. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
7. "Ugly Bug Inn". Norfolk Pubs. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
8. "Population Statistics Colton CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain . Retrieved 30 August 2019.
9. "CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, Marlingford and Colton - 1050751 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
10. "Norfolk Churches". www.norfolkchurches.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
11. "Geograph:: Caister to Croxton :: War Memorials in Norfolk". www.geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

External links

• "Hundred of Forehoe: Colton". British History Online. Retrieved 30 August 2019.