Barnham Broom

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Barnham Broom is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated on the River Yare, 9 miles (15 km) west of Norwich.^[1] and 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Wymondham.

The village's name means 'Beorn's homestead/village' or, perhaps, 'warrior's homestead/village'. The 'Broom' part was added in 1838.

The civil parish has an area of 7.24 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 552 in 220 households, increasing to 590 at the 2011 Census ^[1] and 670 in the 2021 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of South Norfolk.^[2]

At the centre of the village, on the crossroads, lies Barnham Broom Post Office & Stores, providing local services to the community and visitors, and a hundred yards further along Bell Road can be found The Bell public house.^[2]

The school, Barnham Broom CofE VA Primary School,^[3] is an 1847 flint building.

The parish council is made up of seven councillors and meets on the third Thursday of every month except August and December.^[4]

1-mile (1.6 km) north-east of the village is Barnham Broom Hotel & Country Club, incorporating restaurant, two 18-hole golf courses, a leisure and fitness club and a hotel.

War memorial

Barnham Broom's war memorial is located inside St. Peter & St. Paul's Church alongside a Roll of Honour. It lists the following names for the First World War:

• Corporal Charles A. Davey (1895–1918), 4th Battalion, Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery
• Lance-Corporal Ted Pegnall (d.1918), 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
• Gunner H. William Cullum (1895–1917), 154th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
• Private William R. Waters (1899–1917), 10th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
• Private Charles Bell (1885–1917), 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
• Private Harry Harvey (1887–1917), 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private Charles Bullard (1892–1918), 13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
• Private George H. Martin (1888–1917), 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

References

• ^ Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich. ISBN 0-319-21868-6.
• ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
• Barnham Broom

External links

• Barnham Broom Parish Council
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Barnham Broom.
• Barnham [Broom] in the Domesday Book
• Barnham Broom Post Office & Stores