New Buckenham
| New Buckenham | |
|---|---|
 New Buckenham Market Cross Building | |
| Area | 1.73 km2 (0.67 sq mi) |
| Population | 468 |
| • Density | 271/km2 (700/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TM087904 |
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| District | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NORWICH |
| Postcode district | NR16 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
New Buckenham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 1.73 km2 (0.67 sq mi) and had a population of 468 in 197 households at the 2001 census.[1] It is in the local government district of Breckland. The village lies between the towns of Diss and Attleborough, centred on an ancient green with a whipping post. The village is close to Old Buckenham. New Buckenham's calendar includes a traditional August Bank Holiday Fete.
A planned town
New Buckenham was founded in the 12th century by William D’Albini to service his new castle at Buckenham, with a common to the east and a limited area of arable land (the Haugh field) to the south. The town itself was planned on a grid pattern and surrounded by a substantial wet moat that connected it to the castle. The moat was up to nine metres wide and three metres deep with an internal bank.[2] It was referred to as the ‘burgh ditch’ in 1493 and the area within it was known as ‘the burgage’.[3] The foundation was not a failure. New Buckenham remained a market centre and was joined to Norwich by a turnpike road in 1772.[4] However, it never grew into a larger settlement. This has meant not only that it has retained its original layout for which, according to the revised Pevsner for Norfolk, ‘it deserves to be better known’, [5] but also that there has been very little development beyond its medieval boundaries. [6] In Norfolk from the Air I [7] New Buckenham is described as ‘a rare example of a Norman planned town that has not significantly expanded outside or shrunk within its original boundaries’. Recent development has been kept within these restraints; a 1960s development (St Martin's Gardens), for instance, not being allowed to expand beyond the town ditch.[8] There is a wealth of half-timbered housing hiding behind 19th century brick frontages and over sixty dwellings are Grade II listed.
Notable residents
- Poet, children's author and hymn writer Emily Taylor (1795–1872) was brought up in the village and ran a school there.[9]
- Biblical scholar, writer, and minister Joseph Bryant Rotherham (1828–1910) was born there.
- New Buckenham Silver Band was created in 1887 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and continues as one of the older brass bands in East Anglia.[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
- ^ Paul and Tom Rutledge, New Buckenham. A Moated Town, New Buckenham Society, 2002; Niall Donald, ‘New Buckenham, Dicken Cottage, Marsh Lane’, Norfolk Archaeology, vol. xlii, 1997, p. 555
- ^ Francis Blomefield, An Essay towards a Topographical History of Norfolk, 1805-10, I p. 395; Paul Rutledge, ‘New Buckenham in 1542’, Norfolk Archaeology, vol. xlv, 2007, pp. 222-31
- ^ David Dymond, ‘Medieval and Later Markets’ and Alan Davison and Richard Joby, ‘Early Roads and Turnpikes’, An Historical Atlas of Norfolk, ed. Trevor Ashwin and Alan Davison, Phillimore, 2005, pp. 76-7, 154-5
- ^ The Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North-west and South, Nicholas Pevsner and Bill Wilson, 1999, p. 559
- ^ Brian Ayers, ‘Medieval Planned Towns’, An Historical Atlas of Norfolk, ed. Trevor Ashwin and Alan Davison, Phillimore, 2005, p. 75
- ^ ed. Peter Wade-Martins, 2nd ed. Norfolk Museums Service, p. 32
- ^ Plan in Paul and Tom Rutledge, New Buckenham. A Moated Town, New Buckenham Society, 2002
- ^ ODNB. Information under Alexander Gordon, "Taylor, Edgar (1793–1839)", rev. Eric Metcalfe, ODNB, Oxford University Press, 2004 Retrieved 16 September 2014. Pay-walled.
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