Emneth

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Emneth Primary
Location within Norfolk
Area4.55 sq mi (11.8 km2)
Population2,879 (2021 census)
  Density 633/sq mi (244/km2)
OS grid reference TF5103
  London 99.6 miles (160.3 km)
Civil parish
  • Emneth
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WISBECH
Postcode district PE14
Dialling code 01945
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
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52°38′33″N0°12′33″E / 52.64257°N 0.20913°E / 52.64257; 0.20913

Emneth is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Emneth is located 2.9 miles (4.7 km) south-east of Wisbech and 46 miles (74 km) west of Norwich, close to the course of the River Nene.

History

Emneth's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Eana's meeting place or meadow. [1]

Emneth is not featured in the Domesday Book of 1086, [2] probably because in the late-Eleventh Century this area of Norfolk was still flooded.

Emneth was the site of Hagbeach Hall, a medieval manor house demolished in 1887. [3]

Emneth Railway Station opened in 1848 as a stop on the Bramley Line between Watlington and Peterborough railway station. The station closed in 1968 as a result of the Beeching cuts, however, the railway infrastructure still remains as a private residence. Today, the nearest railway station is at Downham Market for the Fen Line between King's Lynn and Peterborough.

Geography

According to the 2021 census, Emneth has a population of 2,879 people which shows an increase from the 2,617 people listed in the 2011 census. [4] The parish of Emneth also includes the smaller hamlets of Emneth Hungate and Holly End.

Emneth is bisected by the A47, between Birmingham and Lowestoft, and is close to the course of the River Nene.

St Edmund's Church

Emneth's parish church is dedicated to Saint Edmund and dates from the Fifteenth Century. St. Edmund's is located within the village on Church Road and has been Grade I listed since 1951. [5]

St Edmund's has good examples of Eighteenth-Century stained glass installed by Clayton and Bell and William Wailes. One of the stained-glass roundels in the church depicts Thomas the Tank Engine, in commemoration of its creator, Rev. W. V. Awdry, who served as Vicar of Emneth from 1953 to 1965. St Edmund's also has a good example of a bell-cote with six bells, and Angels and the Apostles carved into the tie-beams and hammerbeams. [6]

Notable Residents

Governance

Emneth is part of the electoral ward of Emneth & Outwell for local elections and is part of the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

The village's national constituency is South West Norfolk which has been represented by Labour's Terry Jermy MP since 2024.

War Memorial

Emneth War Memorial is a stone column topped with a small Celtic cross in St. Edmund's Churchyard, which was unveiled on 16 May 1920. [7] The memorial lists the following names for the First World War: [8] [9]

RankNameUnitDate of DeathBurial/Commemoration
Capt.John A. Markham [a] 1st Bn., East Yorkshire Regiment 7 May 1915 Strand Military Cemetery
2Lt.Leonard W. Brooks No. 2 Squadron RFC 6 Jul. 1917 Bully-Grenay Cemetery
Sgt.Frederick Neal1st Bn., Suffolk Regiment 18 Feb. 1915 Menin Gate
Sgt.Frederick Day2nd Bn., Suffolk Regt.24 Sep. 1916 West Walton Cemetery
A/Sgt.John H. Claxton1st Bn., Norfolk Regiment 14 Mar. 1915 Menin Gate
Cpl.Robert Lines Royal Field Artillery 10 Apr. 1916 Beauval Cemetery
LCpl.Archibald B. Crofts2nd Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps 30 Nov. 1916 All Saints' Churchyard
LCpl.Ernest A. Edwards2/4th Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment 8 Jun. 1917 Thiepval Memorial
LCpl.Reginald V. Green [b] 1st Bn., Middlesex Regiment 19 Jun. 1918St. Edmund's Churchyard
Dvr.John Chase72nd Bde., Royal Field Artillery 27 Sep. 1918 Mœuvres Cemetery
Pte.George Laws1st Bn., Bedfordshire Regiment 22 Aug. 1918 Gommecourt Cemetery
Pte.Len Brown [c] 1st Bn., Cambridgeshire Regiment 22 Aug. 1917 Locre Hospice Cemetery
Pte.Oliver Hunter1st Bn., Cambridgeshire Regt.22 Mar. 1918 Pozières Memorial
Pte.Arthur Roper1st Bn., Cambridgeshire Regt.2 Jun. 1915 Erquinghem-Lys Cemetery
Pte.Ernest Killingsworth4/1st Bn., Cambridgeshire Regt.2 May 1919St. Edmund's Churchyard
Pte.George W. Hurst8th Bn., East Surrey Regiment 26 Feb. 1919St. Edmund's Churchyard
Pte.Harry Glover4th Bn., Grenadier Guards 25 Sep. 1916 Thiepval Memorial
Pte.Stanley H. C. Lines2nd Bn., Hampshire Regiment 28 Apr. 1917 Étaples Military Cemetery
Pte.Thomas Sharp Labour Corps 24 Nov. 1918St. Edmund's Churchyard
Pte.Samuel F. Balderson7th Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment 3 Jul. 1916 Thiepval Memorial
Pte.Frank Moyses3rd Bn., Machine Gun Corps 31 Aug. 1918 Mory Abbey Cemetery
Pte.Samuel Stokes25th Bn., M.G.C.29 Aug. 1917 Wimereux Cemetery
Pte.Charles W. Brewington16th Bn., Middlesex Regiment 17 Apr. 1917 Arras Memorial
Pte.William Hanslip9th Bn., Norfolk Regiment 18 Oct. 1916 Thiepval Memorial
Pte.Arthur Hurst5th Bn., Northamptonshire Regt. 19 Sep. 1918 Vis-en-Artois Memorial
Pte.William B. Smith MM [d] 2nd Bn., Suffolk Regiment 19 Jul. 1916 Montauban Cemetery
Pte.William Jackson5th Bn., Suffolk Regt.2 Nov. 1917 Menin Gate

The following additions were made following the Second World War:

RankNameUnitDate of DeathBurial/Commemoration
Capt.Harold M. R. Norton Glider Pilot Regiment 24 Mar. 1945 Reichswald Forest Cemetery
FOArthur R. Ludlow No. 44 Squadron RAF 18 Jul. 1943 Runnymede Memorial
Sgt.Neville W. Carlile No. 82 Squadron RAF 13 Jun. 1940 Harlingen General Cemetery
LCpl.Walter H. White Corps of Military Police 5 Apr. 1944 All Saints' Churchyard
Acw.Vera M. Matthews Women's Auxiliary Air Force 28 Dec. 1944St. Edmund's Churchyard
Dvr.Joseph L. Mason Royal Army Medical Corps 1 Sep. 1944 Cassino Memorial
Dvr.Frank Farrow Royal Army Service Corps 28 Sep. 1944 Gradara War Cemetery
Gnr.Robert Bruce55 Anti-Tank Regt., Royal Artillery 17 Jul. 1944 Saint-Manvieu War Cemetery
Pte.Charles H. Baxter2nd Bn., Cambridgeshire Regiment 24 Jan. 1942 Kranji War Memorial
Pte.Leslie Wabe7th Bn., Cheshire Regiment 18 Jan. 1944 Minturno War Cemetery
Pte.Richard R. Neal6th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regiment 29 Sep. 1943 Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Pte.Percy I. White2nd Bn., Suffolk Regiment 19 Jan. 1944 Chittagong War Cemetery

Footnotes

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References

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  2. "Map | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
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Notes

  1. Capt. Markham was killed by a sniper's bullet near Armentieres, according to sources he was extremely popular with the men under his command who felt his loss keenly.
  2. LCpl. Green was sent home wounded in March 1918 and subsequently succumbed to his wounds.
  3. Pte. Brown was drowned whilst bathing in a pond.
  4. Pte. Smith was an adjutant to an officer and was killed by artillery-fire whilst accompanying said officer around frontline trenches.

Further reading

Mee, A. (1972). The King's England: Norfolk. London: Hodder and Stoughton, p.87. ISBN   0-340-15061-0

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