East Winch is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located 4.9 miles (7.9 km) south-east of King's Lynn and 34 miles (55 km) west of Norwich.
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.[3]
According to the 2011 Census, East Winch has a population of 779 residents living in 350 households. The parish covers a total area of 19.95 square kilometres (7.70 sq mi).[5]
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' 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.
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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.
The village war memorial takes the form of an inscribed marble Roll of Honour and is located inside the church. The memorial lists six names as fallen during the First World War.[6]