East Carleton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located 6.3 kilometres (3.9 mi) east of nearby Wymondham and 8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi) south-west of Norwich.
History
East Carleton's name is of Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin and derives from an amalgamation of the Old English and Old Norse for the settlement or farmstead of the freemen.[1]
In the Domesday Book, East Carleton is listed as a settlement of 58 households in the hundred of Humbleyard. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Roger Bigod, Ralph de Beaufour and Ranulf de Peverel.[2]
The village has good examples of surviving Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century residential architecture.[3]
Geography
According to the 2011 Census, East Carleton has a population of 343 residents living in 128 households.[4]
East Carleton's parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and is a Nineteenth Century rebuilding of a Medieval church on the same site. St. Mary's features examples of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century stained glass including an Angel of Charity installed by James Powell and Sons and a depiction of Saint Mary and Christ by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.[5]
