Edgefield, Norfolk
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| Edgefield shown within Norfolk | |
| Area | 10.07 km2 (3.89 sq mi) |
| Population | 385 (2011 census) |
| • Density | 38/km2 (98/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TG0934 |
| • London | 127 miles (204 km) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HOLT |
| Postcode district | NR24 |
| Dialling code | 01263 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
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Edgefield is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 13.6 miles (21.9 km) east-north-east of the town of Fakenham, 12.4 miles (20.0 km) west-south-west of Cromer and 127 miles (204 km) north-north-east of London. The nearest town is Holt which lies 3.3 miles (5.3 km) north of the village. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. The village is situated on the B1149 Norwich to Holt road. The parish had, in the 2001 census, a population of 393, reducing to 385 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.
The village is spread over a large area with the centre concentrated around a village pond. There is a public house which is called The Pigs, it has a garage which now only fixes cars. The village no longer has a school but the old school is now used as a house. The War Memorial which stands on the village green, alongside the Norwich to Holt road, was renovated at a cost of £1,968 in 2004.The Memorial was rededicated on Remembrance Sunday of that year.
Edgefield has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085. In the great book Edgefield is recorded by the name of Edisfelda. The main landholders being Peter de Valognes and his main tenant is said to be Humphrey from Ranulf brothers of Ilger. There is said to be a Mill and 2 beehives. The village is described as being near the River Geet.
The parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul was rebuilt in the 1880s closer to the centre of the village at the instigation of the then rector, Canon Walter Herbert Marcon. Marcon was rector here for sixty years from the 1870s to the 1930s, and is remembered in Norfolk as the cycling parson, and for moving his church half a mile, stone by stone.
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