Forncett

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Forncett
St Mary's Church, Forncett St Mary, Norfolk - geograph.org.uk - 843366.jpg
St Mary's Church, Forncett St Mary
Forncett is located in Norfolk
Forncett
Forncett
Location within Norfolk
Area10.76 km2 (4.15 sq mi)
Population1,126 (2011)
• Density105/km2 (270/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTM165928
Civil parish
  • Forncett
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNORWICH
Postcode districtNR16
PoliceNorfolk
FireNorfolk
AmbulanceEast of England
List of places
UK
England
Norfolk
52°29′26″N 1°11′18″E / 52.49059°N 1.18836°E / 52.49059; 1.18836Coordinates: 52°29′26″N 1°11′18″E / 52.49059°N 1.18836°E / 52.49059; 1.18836

Forncett is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 10.76 km2 (4.15 sq mi) and had a population of 1,000 in 381 households at the 2001 census,[1] increasing to 1,126 at the 2011 census.[2] For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of South Norfolk.

It includes the villages of Forncett St Peter's, Forncett St Mary and .

Governance[]

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches north to Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall with a total population at the 2011 Census of 2,701.[3]

Forncett Industrial Steam Museum[]

The Tower Bridge engine

The Forncett Industrial Steam Museum houses a collection of large stationary steam engines which are occasionally demonstrated to the public.

Included in the collection is a 150 hp Vickers Armstrong cross-compound pumping engine originally used to open Tower Bridge in London. It was the 'third' steam engine, installed as a wartime precaution against air-raid damage, and was removed to Forncett in 1974.[4] The two original engines remain on display at Tower Bridge.

Other exhibits include a Gimson and Company beam engine, and examples of Corliss engines, vertical engines and Woolf compound engines.

Norfolk Tank Museum[]

Situated in Station Road, the museum houses an exhibition of tanks, armoured vehicles, and weaponry.[5]

Notable people[]

  • Frances Ellen Colenso, a historian of the Zulu Wars, was born here in 1849.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Forncett parish information". South Norfolk Council. 1 November 2006. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  4. ^ "The Tower Bridge engine". Forncett Industrial Steam Museum. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  5. ^ "Norfolk Tank Museum". Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  6. ^ B. M. Nicholls, ‘Colenso, Harriette Emily (1847–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 2 Jan 2017

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