Trunch is a village and parish in Norfolk, England,[1] situated three miles north of North Walsham and two miles from the coast at Mundesley. At the Census 2011 the village had a population of 909.[2] The parish covers an area of 5.5 square kilometres (2.1 sq mi).
| Trunch | |
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 The village sign | |
  Trunch Location within Norfolk | |
| Area | 5.49 km2 (2.12 sq mi) |
| Population | 909 (parish, 2011 census) |
| • Density | Proper |
| OS grid reference | TG2834 |
| • London | 134 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NORTH WALSHAM |
| Postcode district | NR28 |
| Dialling code | 01263 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Trunch never had any rail connections in the village itself but it does have a rail map outside of its pub. Before the 1960s one could go to the next village along (Knapton) to catch a train to Cromer or North Walsham from Paston & Knapton railway station (M&GN) to catch a train. Now the nearest stations are Gunton and North Walsham.
Etymology
editThe name Trunch is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, as Trunchet, a form found into the thirteenth century. The form Truch appears in 1203 and the form Trunch is first attested in 1254. The name has occasioned considerable uncertainty. An old suggestion that the name comes from Le Tronchet, a French monastery that owned land in Norfolk, fall out of favour by the twenty-first century. The second element of the name is instead accepted to be the Common Brittonic word found in modern Welsh as coed ("woodland"). The origin of the first element has also occasioned debate, with a word related to Welsh trwyn ("nose, headland") being mooted. But in 2000, Andrew Breeze concluded that the first element was related to Welsh trum ("back") and that the name once meant "ridge by a wood".[3][4]: 173–75
St Botolph's Parish Church
editTrunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed[5] 14th-century church of St Botolph.[6] The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the twelve Apostles, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery.[7] Only four such canopies still exist in England. St Botolph's also features a hammerbeam roof with carved angels, as well as medieval misericords under the seats in the chancel. Another medieval survival is the rood screen depicting 11 disciples and St Paul (their faces were scratched out during the Reformation). Lord Nelson's daughter is said to have been married in the church.
In 1589 Robert Thexton became the rector of Trunch. While at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Thexton had been the roommate of Christopher Marlowe, the famous, and infamous, Elizabethan playwright.[8]
In popular culture
editThe fictional village of St Just-near-Trunch is known in English folk music as the home of the former satirical folk duo, The Kipper Family.
Gallery
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The parish church
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The Methodist Church
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The Crown public house, Trunch
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A view of the village
References
edit- ^ Norfolk Coast East. Ordnance Survey. 2008. ISBN 978-0319467268.
- ^ "Trunch (Norfolk)". City Population. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557., s.v. Trunch.
- ^ Coates, Richard; Breeze, Andrew (2000). Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain. Stamford: Tyas. ISBN 1900289415..
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1306175)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "St Botolph, Trunch". Norfolk Churches. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ Wilson, Bill (1997). Norfolk 1: Norwich and North East. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096070.
- ^ Riggs, David (2004). The World of Christopher Marlowe. Henry Holt and Co. p. 67. ISBN 9780805077551.
External links
edit- Trunch Farmworkers Strike - Account of 1906 agricultural dispute in the village, from EASF.
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