Forncett
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; 1.18836

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 Forncett End.

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

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
  7. ^ "Kett, Robert (c.1492–1549), rebel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15485. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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