Woodton
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| Area | 8.85 km2 (3.42 sq mi) |
| Population | 702 (2018)[1] |
| • Density | 79/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] TM292939] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BUNGAY |
| Postcode district | NR35 |
| Dialling code | 01508 |
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| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
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Woodton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of the Suffolk town of Bungay, and 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Norwich.[2]
The civil parish has an area of 3.42 sq mi (8.85 km2) and in the 2001 census had a population of 472 in 194 households, increasing to 482 at the 2011 Census.[3] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.[4]
The village's name indicates a settlement in the woods (wudu, 'woods' + tun 'enclosure, settlement, farm').[5] Over the years, different variants of the name have been used, including Wdetuna, Wodetuna, Wodetone, Wudetuna, Uidetuna and Wootton. Several Bronze Age ring ditches dating from between the 23rd century BC and the 7th century BC have been identified in the area.[6]
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In 1575, Robert Suckling became Lord of the whole of Woodton. Various members of the Suckling family lived in the parish, including John Suckling (poet)[citation needed] and Catherine Suckling (the mother of Horatio Nelson). The Sucklings were lord of the manor until 1810. The Woodton sanctuary has a portrait of Nelson's great-great-grandmother, Ann Suckling (d. 1653), which is "beautifully and sensitively sculpted".[8]
Wootton Hall was built in 1694[citation needed] and in 1862 was listed as the seat of Robert Suckling and his wife Sarah Shelton;[9] it was demolished in 1841–2.[5]
Woodton All Saints church
The church of Woodton All Saints is a round-tower church; the nave and chancel are from the 1300s, with a slightly more recent aisle. The roof is arch-braced and original; the chapel in the aisle must at one time have been lavish. The inside window is decorated with a bearded head and a Michaelmas-style flower motif, and there are medieval glass images of Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret. The tower has a 15th-century octagonal top.[8]
The pulpit is Jacobean, and the piscina is an unusual 13th-century example. The glass of the east window was made by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, for a church in Kent in the 1830s; when that church had the windows restored in 1932, the parish had a problem with the devil in the centre scene, and the Woodton rector bought the window for his own church. The window, however, did not fit perfectly, and in the end, the devil had to be excised: what is left of him is an olive-green wing under the right hand of Christ. After a restoration in 1880, a porch on the south side was added.[8]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Woodton in Norfolk (East of England)". City Population. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Survey, Ordnance (2007). The Broads Wroxham, Beccles, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth : showing the Broads Authority area (Ed. A1_. ed.). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. ISBN 978-0319237694.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CivilParish population 2011". Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001)". norfolk.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Woodton in history". Woodton Parish Council.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Woodton.info (2005)". le-net.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2005.
- ^ (Burke, General Armory, 1884). Also of Barsham in Sussex. See history of Barsham and Suckling pedigree in: Alfred Suckling, 'Barsham', in The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 (Ipswich, 1846), pp. 35-46[1]
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mortlock, D. P.; Roberts, C. V. (2017). The Guide to Norfolk Churches (3 ed.). Lutterworth Press. p. 329. ISBN 9780718847128.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burke, Bernard (1862). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). Harrison. p. 92.
External links
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- Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". for Woodton.
- All Saints on the European Round Tower Churches website
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