East Winch

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Village in Norfolk, England

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::summary Village in Norfolk, England ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
os_grid_reference	TF694163
official_name	East Winch
population	853
population_ref	(2021 census)
shire_district	King's Lynn and West Norfolk
shire_county	Norfolk
region	East of England
civil_parish	East Winch
constituency_westminster	North West Norfolk
postcode_district	PE32
postcode_area	PE
post_town	KING'S LYNN
dial_code	01553
london_distance	87 mi
static_image_name	All Saints' Church, East Winch - geograph.org.uk - 261348.jpg
static_image_caption	All Saints' Church
area_total_sq_mi	7.70
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East Winch is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

The village is located 4.9 mi south-east of King's Lynn and 34 mi west of Norwich.

History

East Winch's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the eastern pasture farmstead.

In the Domesday Book, East Winch is listed as a settlement of 51 households in the hundred of Freebridge. In 1086, the village formed part of the East Anglian estates of King William I, Roger Bigod, Ralph de Tosny, Hermer de Ferrers and a freeman by the name of Rainer.

Crancourt Manor was a medieval residence of the Howard family, built as a fortified manor house. By the mid-nineteenth century, the manor was ruined apart from a single chimney stack, which remains the case today.

In May 1944, a de Havilland Mosquito of No. 23 Squadron RAF crashed within the parish after technical difficulties on a test flight from RAF Little Snoring. Both crew members (FO Charles J. Preece and FO Frederick H. Ruffle DFC) were killed.

Geography

According to the 2021 census, East Winch has a population of 853 people which shows an increase from the 779 people listed in the 2011 census.

East Winch is bisected by the A47, between Birmingham and Lowestoft.

All Saints' Church

East Winch's parish church was built in the Perpendicular style in the late-Fourteenth Century under the leadership of the Howard family, by the Eighteenth Century the church had largely fallen into disrepair until it was repaired under the oversight of George Gilbert Scott. All Saints' is located within the village on Church Lane and has been Grade II listed since 1960.

All Saints' features good examples of Nineteenth Century stained glass installed by Clayton and Bell depicting Christ as a shepherd and the Parable of the Good Samaritan, with a further depiction of the Resurrection by Ward and Hughes.

Amenities

East Winch airfield was founded in 1986 by Colin and Peter Burman, initially for crop dusting. After this was banned in 2009 the airfield was repurposed for leisure use.

Transport

East Winch railway station opened in 1846 as a stop on the Lynn and Dereham Railway between King's Lynn and Dereham. The station closed in 1968.

Notable residents

Sir William Howard (1225–1308)- English lawyer and justice
Sir John Howard ( – 1437)- English landowner, soldier and courtier
Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986)- English cartoonist, historian and author

Governance

East Winch is part of the electoral ward of Gayton & Grimston for local elections and is part of the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is North West Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative's James Wild MP since 2010.

War Memorial

East Winch's war memorial is a marble plaque in All Saints' Church which lists the following names for the First World War: ::data[format=table title=""]

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of death	Burial/Commemoration
St1C	Robert B. Weston	HMS Queen Mary	31 May 1916	Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Pte.	Albert E. Reeve	7th Bn., Bedfordshire Regiment	25 Oct. 1916	Thiepval Memorial
Pte.	Albert Berry	1st Bn., Essex Regiment	13 Aug. 1915	Helles Memorial
Pte.	Bertie T. Edwards	1st Bn., Essex Regt.	31 May 1917	Villers-Faucon Cemetery
Pte.	James Reeve	8th Bn., Norfolk Regiment	1 Jul. 1916	Thiepval Memorial
Pte.	William J. Brown	9th Bn., Norfolk Regt.	21 Mar. 1918	Arras Memorial
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And, the following for the Second World War: ::data[format=table title=""]

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of death	Burial/Commemoration
FSgt.	Sidney A. Berry	No. 10 Squadron RAF	20 Dec. 1943	Rheinberg War Cemetery
Pte.	Frederick E. J. Craske	2nd Bn., Royal Norfolk Regiment	25 May 1940	Dunkirk Memorial
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References

"Key to English Place-names".
[https://opendomesday.org/place/TF6916/east-winch/ East Winch], Open Domesday. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
"mnf1062 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer".
Ranter, Harro. "Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito NF Mk II DD736, Thursday 23 November 1944".
"East Winch (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location".
"CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, East Winch - 1342382 {{!}} Historic England".
"Norfolk Churches".
"Geograph:: Earlham to Erpingham :: War Memorials in Norfolk".

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