Fulmodeston is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The village is located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Fakenham and 20 miles (32 km) north-west of Norwich, along the course of River Stiffkey. Fulmodeston parish also includes the small villages of Barney.
History
Fulmodeston's name is of mixed Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin and derives from the Old English and Old Norse for either Fulcmod's and Krok's settlement or village.[1]
The parish of "Fulmodeston" was formed on 1 April 1935 from Fulmodeston cum Croxton, Barney and Thursford parishes, on 1 April 1954 Thursford became a separate parish again.[3]
Geography
According to the 2011 Census, Fulmodeston has a population of 442 residents living in 219 households. Furthermore, the parish covers a total area of 5.81 square miles (15.0 km2).[4]
Fulmodeston's parish holds the ruins of St. Mary's Church and dates from the mid-Fifteenth Century. The church was abandoned in 1880s in favour of Christ Church.[5]
Christ Church
Christ Church Fulmodeston was built in the late-Nineteenth Century to replace the decaying churches of St. Mary's, Fulmodeston and St. John the Baptist, Croxton and was based on the designs of William Bassett-Smith.[6]
Fulmodeston's war memorial takes the form of a wooden plaque listing the deceased, injured and survivors from the parish. The memorial lists the following names for the First World War:
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