Grimston, Norfolk

Grimston
Grimston
Shire county	Norfolk;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KING'S LYNN
Postcode district	PE32
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
	List of places UK England Norfolk 52°46′19″N 0°33′00″E / 52.77195°N 0.54993°E

Grimston is a village and

English county of Norfolk, approximately 6 miles north-east of King's Lynn

. It covers an area of 18.08 km² (6.98 sq mi) and had a population of 1,952 in 823 households at the 2001 census,^[2] increasing to a population of 1,980 at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

The village is a few miles away from the royal family residence at Sandringham House.

The village was built on a spring line and a Roman villa was found near Watery Lane in the late 19th century.^[3] Subsequently, Roman villas were found in the neighbouring villages of Gayton Thorpe and Well Hall to the south and Congham and Appleton to the north. Some red bricks from the villas were re-used in the church, on buttresses and on the South Wall.

Grimston, and particularly the nearby hamlet of

Castle Museum, Norwich

.

The Grade I listed Church of

St Botolph

has late Saxon or early Norman origins, largely extended in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Schools that serve the area of Grimston are Holly Meadows School (Primary) in Vong Lane and Springwood High School in King's Lynn (Secondary).

Virginia Beach is named after him, and a house he built there is open as Adam Thoroughgood House

.

Name

Grimston is a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse words. Other place names with this formulation are called Grimston Hybrids.^[4] Grim is an alternative name for Odin, as well as being a commonly used personal name,^[5] and ton is from the Anglo-Saxon word for town or village.

Governance

An electoral ward of the same name exists. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 2,237.^[6]

Notes

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 27 August 2015.
^ Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
^ http://[www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MNF3575 Norfolk Heritage Explorer article
^ "British Library".
^ "University of Glasgow – Research – Research units A-Z – eSharp – Issues – 2 (Spring 2004): Trailblazing – Yokota".
^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 27 August 2015.

External links

Media related to Grimston, Norfolk at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 27 August 2015.

[2] Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.

[3] ttp://[www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MNF3575 Norfolk Heritage Explorer article

[4] "British Library".

[5] "University of Glasgow – Research – Research units A-Z – eSharp – Issues – 2 (Spring 2004): Trailblazing – Yokota".

[6] "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 27 August 2015.

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