Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall

Coordinates: 52°31′56″N 1°10′17″E / 52.53222°N 1.17129°E

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Ashwellthorpe
St Nicholas' Church, Fundenhall
Ashwellthorpe Location within Norfolk
Area	9.74 km² (3.76 sq mi)
Population	750 (2011)
• Density	77/km² (200/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TM 151 974
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR16
Dialling code	01508

Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England

List of places UK England Norfolk 52°31′56″N 1°10′17″E / 52.53222°N 1.17129°E / 52.53222; 1.17129

Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, situated some 6 km south-east of Wymondham and 20 km south-west of Norwich. The parish includes the villages of Ashwellthorpe and Fundenhall, which lie about 1 km apart, although rather farther by road.^[1]

The civil parish has an area of 9.74 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 756 in 301 households, the population falling to 750 at the 2011 Census.^[1] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk. Fundenhall was a separate parish until it was annexed by Ashwellthorpe in 1935. The combined parish was known as Ashwellthorpe until 2003, when it adopted its current name.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Railway

Ashwellthorpe had a railway station on the Forncett to Wymondham line; it closed in 1939.^{[citation needed]}

War memorial

Ashwellthorpe War Memorial lies in All Saint's Churchyard and holds the following names from the First World War:

Rifleman P. W. Bateman (d.1918), King's Royal Rifle Corps
Rifleman Leonard M. Bateman (d.1917), 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Private Albert G. Grimmer (1894–1917), 163rd Company, Machine Gun Corps
Private Edgar J. Goose (d.1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Frederick L. Tubby (1885–1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private E. E. Squires (d.1918), 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Private W. R. Squires (1884–1918), 16th (Sussex Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
H. G. Bateman
W. J. George
A. J. Hunt