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Lingwood is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Lingwood and Burlingham, in the English county of Norfolk.
Key Information
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Lingwood is located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south-west of Acle and 8 miles (13 km) east of Norwich.
History
[edit]Lingwood's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for bank wood.[1]
Lingwood is not listed in the Domesday Book.[2]
On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Burlingham.[3]
Lingwood Railway Station opened in 1882 on the Great Eastern Railway and remains open as a stop on the Wherry Line for services between Norwich and Great Yarmouth.
St. Peter's Church
[edit]Lingwood's former parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter and dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. Peter's is located on Church Road and has been Grade I listed since 1962.[4] The church is open for Sunday service three times a month.[5]
St. Peter's holds a set of royal arms from the reign of King George IV as well as a medieval wall painting of Saint Christopher which was uncovered in 1965.[6]
Governance
[edit]Lingwood is part of the electoral ward of Burlingham for local elections and is part of the district of Broadland.
The village's national constituency is Broadland and Fakenham which has been represented by the Conservative Party's Jerome Mayhew MP since 2019.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ "Home | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ "Relationships and Changes Burlingham CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ "CHURCH OF ST PETER, Lingwood and Burlingham - 1051521 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ "St Peter's Lingwood". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ "Norfolk Churches". www.norfolkchurches.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
External links
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- "Blofield Hundred: Lingwood". British History Online. Retrieved 26 August 2019.