Woodton

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Woodton
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All Saints church
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Woodton
Location within Norfolk
Area8.85 km2 (3.42 sq mi)
Population702 (2018) [1]
•  Density 79/km2 (200/sq mi)
OS grid reference TM292939
Civil parish
  • Woodton
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BUNGAY
Postcode district NR35
Dialling code 01508
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
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UK
England
Norfolk
52°29′41″N1°22′30″E / 52.49482°N 1.37497°E / 52.49482; 1.37497

Woodton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some 7 km north-west of the Suffolk town of Bungay, and 20 km south-east of Norwich. [2]

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The civil parish has an area of 8.85 km2 (3.42 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 472 in 194 households, increasing to 482 at the 2011 Census. [3] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk. [4]

The village's name indicates a settlement in the woods (wudu, ‘woods’ + tun ‘enclosure, settlement, farm’). [5] Over the years different variants of the name have been used, including Wdetuna, Wodetuna, Wodetone, Wudetuna, Uidetuna and Wootton. A number of Bronze Age ring ditches dating from between the 23rd century BC and the 7th century BC have been identified in the area. [6]

Arms of Suckling: Per pale gules and azure, three bucks trippant or, Arms Suckling (of Wootton, Norfolk).svg
Arms of Suckling: Per pale gules and azure, three bucks trippant or,

In 1575 Robert Suckling became Lord of the whole of Woodton, and various members of the Suckling family lived in the parish, including John Suckling (poet) [ citation needed ] and Catherine Suckling (the mother of Horatio Nelson). The Sucklings were lord of the manor until 1810. The Woodton sanctuary has a portrait of Nelson's great-great-grandmother: Ann Suckling (d. 1653) is "beautifully and sensitively sculpted". [8]

Wootton Hall was built in 1694[ citation needed ] and in 1862 was listed as the seat of Robert Suckling and his wife Sarah Shelton; [9] it was demolished in 1841–2. [5]

Woodton All Saints church

The church of Woodton All Saints is a round-tower church; the nave and chancel are from the 1300s, with a slightly more recent aisle. The roof is arch-braced and original; the chapel in the aisle must at one time have been lavish. The inside window is decorated with a bearded head and a Michaelmas-style flower motif, and there are medieval glass images of Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret. The tower has a 15th-century octagonal top. [8]

The pulpit is Jacobean, and the piscina is an unusual 13th-c example. The glass of the east window was made by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, for a church in Kent in the 1830s; when that church had the windows restored in 1932, the parish had a problem with the devil in the center scene, and the Woodton rector bought the window for his own church. The window, however, did not fit perfectly, and in the end the devil had to be excised: what is left of him is an olive-green wing under the right hand of Christ. After a restoration in 1880, a porch on the south side was added. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Woodton in Norfolk (East of England)". City Population. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Survey, Ordnance (2007). The Broads Wroxham, Beccles, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth : showing the Broads Authority area (Ed. A1_. ed.). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. ISBN   978-0319237694.
  3. ↑ "CivilParish population 2011" . Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001)". norfolk.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
  5. 1 2 "Woodton in history". Woodton Parish Council.
  6. ↑ "Woodton.info (2005)". le-net.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2005.
  7. ↑ (Burke, General Armory, 1884). Also of Barsham in Sussex. See history of Barsham and Suckling pedigree in: Alfred Suckling, 'Barsham', in The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 (Ipswich, 1846), pp. 35-46
  8. 1 2 3 Mortlock, D. P.; Roberts, C. V. (2017). The Guide to Norfolk Churches (3 ed.). Lutterworth Press. p. 329. ISBN   9780718847128.
  9. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1862). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). Harrison. p. 92.


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