Carleton Forehoe

Carleton Forehoe
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Carleton Forehoe Location within Norfolk
Civil parish	Kimberley and Carleton Forehoe
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR9
Dialling code	01953
UK Parliament	Mid Norfolk

Carleton Forehoe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kimberley and Carleton Forehoe, in the English county of Norfolk.

Carleton Forehoe is located 2.8 miles (4.5 km) north-west of Wymondham and 8.8 miles (14.2 km) west of Norwich.

History

Carleton Forehoe's name is of Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin and derives from an amalgamation of the Old English and Old Norse for a settlement of free men close to four earthen mounds.[1]

In the Domesday Book, Carleton Forehoe was recorded as Carletuna/Karletuna[2] a settlement of 40 households and the principal village in the hundred of Forehoe. The land of the village was divided between King William, Alan of Brittany and St. Benet's Abbey.[3]

The moated site at Gelham's Wood was the grounds of a Medieval manor house which belonged to the Gelham family and later the Wodehouse family.[4]

In 1815, Carleton Bridge was built across the River Tiffey. It is a Grade II listed structure and is complete with the crest of the Wodehouse family.[5]

On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Kimberley.[6]

Geography

In 1931 the parish had a population of 123,[7] this was the last time separate population figures were collated for Carleton Forehoe. Subsequently, census data is listed as the joint parish of Kimberley and Carleton Forehoe.

The River Tiffey, a tributary of the River Yare, runs through the village.

St. Mary's Church

Carleton Forehoe's parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and dates from the Fifteenth Century. St. Mary's located on Barnham Broom Road and has been Grade II listed since 1959.[8] The churchtower is a rarity for Norfolk as it was built in 1700s, mainly from red brick.[9]

Governance

Carleton Forehoe is part of the electoral ward of Wicklewood for local elections and is part of the district of South Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is Mid Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative George Freeman MP.

War memorial

Carleton Forehoe's war memorial is a marble plaque inside St. Mary's Church.[10] It lists the following names for the First World War:[11]

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of Death	Burial
Lt.	Philip Wodehouse	Army Headquarters[a]	6 May 1919	St. Peter's Churchyard
2Lt.	Edward Wodehouse MC[b]	16th The Queen's Lancers	30 Mar. 1918	Pozières Memorial
Sgt.	Bertie Bowles	12th Bn., Norfolk Regiment	8 Dec. 1917	Jerusalem War Cemetery
Cpl.	Donald J. Hadingham	163rd Coy., Machine Gun Corps	19 Apr. 1917	Gaza War Cemetery
Pte.	Bertie G. Hadingham	1/6th Bn., Essex Regiment	17 Dec. 1915	Shatby Cemetery

References

1. "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
2. "Norfolk A-C". The Domesday Book Online. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
3. "Carleton [Forehoe] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
4. "Moated site in Gelham's Wood, Kimberley and Carleton Forehoe - 1020857 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
5. "CARLETON BRIDGE, Kimberley and Carleton Forehoe - 1050744 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
6. "Relationships and changes Carleton Forehoe CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
7. "Population statistics Carleton Forehoe CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
8. "CHURCH OF ST MARY, Kimberley and Carleton Forehoe - 1172547 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
9. "Norfolk Churches". www.norfolkchurches.co.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
10. "Carleton Forehoe". www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
11. "Geograph:: Caister to Croxton :: War Memorials in Norfolk". www.geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2024.

Notes

1. Served with the Censorship Department.
2. Military Cross citation not found.