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Earsham
Summary
Earsham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Earsham is located west of its postal town of Bungay and south-east of Norwich. The village is located close to the border between Norfolk and Suffolk, and the River Waveney.
Earsham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the homestead or settlement of an earl or built around a hill.
Earsham Mill has stood in some form in the village since the time of the Anglo-Saxons, using the River Waveney to grind wheat into flour. The mill building still exists today.
In the Domesday Book, Earsham is listed as a settlement of 69 households in its own hundred. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of King William I.
Earsham Hall was built in the Eighteenth Century by John Buxton and was first inhabited by Lt-Col. William Windham. The hall was remodelled in the Georgian style by Sir John Soane and exists today as a venue for wedding receptions and antiques dealing.
According to the 2011 Census, Earsham has a population of 882 residents living in 379 households.
Earsham falls within the constituency of South Norfolk and is represented at Parliament by Richard Bacon MP of the Conservative Party. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.
Earsham's parish church dates from the Fourteenth Century and is rare for an East Anglian church due to the fact it features a spire. The stone font depicts the seven sacraments and crucifixion of Jesus Christ whilst the Continental stained glass shows Saint Joseph amongst others.
Earsham's Queen's Head has operated as a coaching inn since the mid-Nineteenth Century, the pub remains open to this day.
Earsham railway station opened in 1860 as a stop on the Waveney Valley Line connecting Tivetshall to Beccles. The station was closed in 1953.
Lt-Col. William Windham (1674-1730)- British Army officer and politician
William Windham (1706-1789)- British landowner and politician
Earsham's war memorial takes the form of a stone column topped with a Celtic cross located on the village green, the memorial is supplemented by a wooden Roll of Honour inside All Saints' Church.
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