Brandiston

Brandiston

Brandiston St Nicholas
Brandiston
 Brandiston shown within Norfolk
Area  3.14 km2 (1.21 sq mi)
Population 44 (2001 census[1])
   – density  14/km2 (36/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTG130218
Civil parishBrandiston
DistrictBroadland
Shire countyNorfolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town NORWICH
Postcode district NR10
Police Norfolk
Fire Norfolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
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Coordinates: 52°45′04″N 1°09′25″E / 52.75114°N 1.15685°E

Brandiston is a small village and civil parish near the centre of the county of Norfolk, England, about two miles south-east of the small market town of Reepham, five miles south-west of the larger town of Aylsham and 10 miles north-west of the city of Norwich. For the purposes of local government, it falls within Broadland district. The hamlet of Guton lies within the parish.

The 2001 census recorded a population for Brandiston of just 44. The bulk of the parish is occupied by farmland, mainly arable.

Brandiston's Church of St Nicholas is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. It is redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

The south-east quadrant of the parish was occupied by a Second World War airfield, RAF Swannington. Although the airfield closed after the war and returned to agricultural use, parts of the Brandiston-Swannington road and the road to the east of the church still run over remains of the concrete runways.

There is a small common in the west of the parish.

There are four almshouses, built in the 1850s and owned by the Brandiston Gurney Charity,[2][3] established from a 16th-century bequest by William Gurney.[4] Greenway Wood in Brandiston is named after Richard Greenway (1921-2009), a longserving trustee of the charity.

The remains of a stump cross are on the eastern boundary of the parish, on the Cawston-Norwich road.

References

  1. ↑ Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  2. ↑ William Gurney Charity
  3. ↑ Brandiston Gurney Almshouses
  4. ↑ Extract from William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

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