Pudding Norton

Pudding Norton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 2.30 sq mi (6.0 km²) and (including Testerton) had a population of 267 in 126 households at the 2001 census,^[1] falling to 252 at the 2011 Census.^[2] For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of North Norfolk.^{[citation needed]}

Pudding Norton
Remains of St. Margaret's Church, Pudding Norton
Pudding Norton Location within Norfolk
Area	5.95 km2 (2.30 sq mi)
Population	252
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TF918284
Civil parish	Pudding Norton
District	North Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	FAKENHAM
Postcode district	NR21
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Norfolk 52.81957°N 0.845947°E / 52.81957; 0.845947

The village's name means "north farm/settlement". The origins of the affix "Pudding" are obscure.^[3]

Pudding Norton civil parish contains the villages of Pudding Norton and Testerton, both of which became largely deserted by the post-medieval period. Pudding Norton village sits at the centre of the parish, and earthworks to the south and east show the previous medieval extent of the village.^{[citation needed]}

Buildings

Only two buildings of architectural interest remain. The first, the church of Saint Margaret, retains just the walls of its west tower and part of the west end of the nave. It was constructed in flint and limestone, and is thought to date to the 12th and 13th centuries.^{[citation needed]}

The second is the Grade II Listed Pudding Norton Hall, a building initially built in the 17th century, reconstructed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and since developed into a farmhouse.^{[citation needed]}

Of possible interest is an hexagonal pillbox (sometimes referred to as a blockhouse) and possible gun emplacement dating to the Second World War and situated just west of the village of Testerton.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

1. Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes Archived 2017-02-11 at the Wayback Machine Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
2. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 3 September 2015.
3. "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2023.

References

• Morris, J. (General Editor), (1984). Domesday Book, 33 Norfolk, Part I and Part II, Chichester: Phillimore & Co
• Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. (1999). The Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North-West and South, London: Penguin Books.
• A Vision of Britain Through Time: Pudding Norton CP by H. Southall, retrieved 7 December 2006
• UK & Ireland Genealogy page on Pudding Norton by Pat Newby, retrieved 8 December 2006
• Norfolk Churches: St Margaret, Pudding Norton by Simon Knott, retrieved 8 December 2006

External links

Media related to Pudding Norton at Wikimedia Commons