Carleton Rode

DistrictShire countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townNORWICHPostcode districtNR16PoliceNorfolkFireNorfolkAmbulanceEast of England 52°29′24″N 1°06′49″E / 52.489993°N 1.113567°E / 52.489993; 1.113567

Carleton Rode is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is situated approximately five miles south-east of Attleborough. In the 2011 Census, Carleton Rode was recorded as having a population of 785 people in 324 households.^[2]

History

Carleton Rode's name is of Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin and derives from an amalgamation of the Old English and Old Norse for a settlement of free peasants belonging to the de Rode family.^[3]

In the Domesday Book, Carleton Rode was recorded as a settlement of 43 households in the hundred of Depwade. The land of the village was divided in ownership between King William, Alan of Brittany, William de Warenne, Roger Bigod and Eudo, son of Spirewic.^[4]

Carleton Rode was the site of a semaphore telegraph station which connected the Admiralty in London to the fleet in Great Yarmouth.

Amenities

Carleton Rode Primary School claims to be the oldest non-fee paying in Norfolk and received a 'Good' rating from Ofsted in 2021.^[5]

Sport

The GP2 Series racing team, iSport International has its factory and headquarters in Carleton Rode.

War memorial

Carleton Rode's war memorial is located in ..... Churchyard and lists the following names for the First World War:

• Second-Lieutenant Hugh R. Cholmeley (1891–1915), 42nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
• Sergeant Ernest E. Bennington (1886–1916), 7th Battalion, Border Regiment
• Corporal Ernest Calton (1897–1918), 9th Battalion, Essex Regiment
• Gunner Ernest C. Colman (1890–1916), 6th (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
• Gunner Oswald H. Balls (1891–1917), 94th (Siege) Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
• Private Wilfred Breeze (d.1918), Bedfordshire Regiment
• Private James W. Baker (1891–1917), 43rd (Cameron Highlanders) Battalion, Canadian Army
• Private Fred Burt (d.1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private Bertie Barber (1892–1916), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private James Brown (d.1916), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private Leonard H. Foster (d.1916), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• Private Wesley H. W. G. Chilvers (1898–1918), 7th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
• Reverend Hatfield A. W. Back (1891–1917), HMS Vanguard

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