Forncett
Forncett is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 10.76 km2 and had a population of 1,000 in 381 households at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,126 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.
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Overview
Overview
It includes the villages of Forncett St Peter's, Forncett St Mary and Forncett End and the location of Bustard's Green.
Key facts
Key facts
• Country — England • Os Grid Reference — TM165928 • Official Name — Forncett • Population — 1,126 • Population Ref — (2011) • Area Total Km2 — 10.76 • Shire District — South Norfolk • Shire County — Norfolk • Region — East of England • Civil Parish — Forncett • Constituency Westminster — Waveney Valley • Postcode District — NR16 • Postcode Area — NR • Post Town — NORWICH • Dial Code — 01508
Governance
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall with a total population at the 2011 Census of 2,701.
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum
• Illustration — The Tower Bridge engine The Forncett Industrial Steam Museum houses a collection of large stationary steam engines which are occasionally demonstrated to the public. Included in the collection is a 150 hp Vickers Armstrong cross-compound pumping engine originally used to open Tower Bridge in London. It was the 'third' steam engine, installed as a wartime precaution against air-raid damage, and was removed to Forncett in 1974. The two original engines remain on display at Tower Bridge. Other exhibits include a Gimson and Company beam engine, and examples of Corliss engines, vertical engines and Woolf compound engines.
Norfolk Tank Museum
Norfolk Tank Museum
Situated in Station Road, the museum houses an exhibition of tanks, armoured vehicles, and weaponry.
Notable people
Notable people
• Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003), composer, died there. • Frances Ellen Colenso, a historian of the Zulu Wars, was born here in 1849. • Robert Kett (c. 14927 December 1549), leader of Kett's rebellion, was the son of Forncett native Thomas Kett.
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.South Norfolk Council. Forncett parish information. 1 November 2006.
- 2.Civil Parish population 2011.
- 3.Ward population 2011.
- 4.Forncett Industrial Steam Museum. The Tower Bridge engine.
- 5.Norfolk Tank Museum.
- 6.Doreen Carwithen The Independent The Independent.
- 7.B. M. Nicholls, ‘Colenso, Harriette Emily (1847–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 2 Jan 2017
- 8.Kett, Robert (c.1492–1549), rebel.
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