Brumstead

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name = Brumstead

| country = England

| region = East of England

| shire_district = North Norfolk

| shire_county = Norfolk

| civil_parish = Brumstead CP

| static_image_name = Brunstead Village Sign.jpg

| static_image_caption = Brumstead village sign

| population = 84

| population_ref = (parish, 2001 census)

| area_total_km2 = 3.22

| population_density =

| os_grid_reference = TG374273

| coordinates = {{coord|52.7907|1.52186|display=inline,title}}

| label_position = top

| post_town = NORWICH

| postcode_area = NR

| postcode_district = NR12

| dial_code = 01692

| constituency_westminster = North Norfolk

| london_distance = {{convert|134|mi|km}}

}}

Brumstead (or Brunstead) is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

The village is located {{Convert|1.4|mi|km}} north-west of Stalham and {{Convert|14|mi|km}} north-east of Norwich. The village is locally known as Brunstead, as depicting on the village sign.

History

Brumstead's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for broom steading.{{Cite web |title=Key to English Place-names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Brumstead |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}}

In the Domesday Book, Brumstead is recorded as a settlement of 21 households in the hundred of Happing. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of Roger Bigod.{{Cite web |title=Brumstead {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TG3626/brumstead/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=opendomesday.org}}

Listed buildings within Brumstead include Brumstead Grange (Seventeenth Century){{Cite web |title=BRUMSTEAD GRANGE, Brumstead - 1172246 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1172246?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} and Brumstead Hall (Fifteenth Century){{Cite web |title=BRUMSTEAD HALL, Brumstead - 1049383 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1049383?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} with two Eighteenth Century barns.{{Cite web |title=2 BARNS AT BRUMSTEAD HALL FARM, Brumstead - 1305235 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1305235?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}

During the early phases of the Second World War, an anti-aircraft position was built in Brumstead Parish, but it was later abandoned.{{Cite web |title=mnf43802 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer |url=https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?mnf43802 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk}}

Geography

The parish had in 2001 census, a population of 84. At the 2011 census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of East Ruston.

The B1159, Cromer and Caister-on-Sea, bisects the parish.

The nearest railway station is at North Walsham for the Bittern Line which runs between Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich.

St. Peter's Church

Brumstead's parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter and dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. Peter's is located on 'The Avenue' and has been Grade II listed 1955.{{Cite web |title=CHURCH OF ST PETER, Brumstead - 1049384 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1049384?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} The church was restored twice in the Nineteenth Century: once in the 1830s and again in the 1870s. The church boasts a Fourteenth Century font and stained-glass designed by J. & J. King, depicting Saint Peter and Saint John the Baptist.{{Cite web |title=Norfolk Churches |url=http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brumstead/brumstead.htm |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=www.norfolkchurches.co.uk}}

Within St. Peter's Churchyard, there is an early-Eighteenth Century headstone with a skull & crossbones carving{{Cite web |title=MEMORIAL 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, Brumstead - 1172242 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1172242?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}} as well as a headstone dedicated to Mary Cubett.{{Cite web |title=MEMORIAL TO MARY CUBETT 4 METRES SOUTH OF NAVE OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, Brumstead - 1049385 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1049385?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}

Governance

Brumstead is part of the electoral ward of Happisburgh for local elections and is part of the district of North Norfolk.

The village's national constituency is North Norfolk, which has been represented by the Liberal Democrat Steff Aquarone MP since 2024.

War Memorial

Brumstead's War Memorial is a white marble carved open book with an accompanying wreath, located inside St. Peter's Church. It lists the following names for the First World War:{{Cite web |title=Geograph:: Bodham to Bylaugh :: War Memorials in Norfolk |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/War-Memorials-in-Norfolk/4#bodham-to-bylaugh |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=www.geograph.org.uk}}

class="wikitable"

!Rank

!Name

!Unit

!Date of Death

!Burial

2Lt.

|Percy C. H. Bird

|10th Bn., Norfolk Regiment

|5 Apr. 1916

|Basra Memorial

|Stanley Ellis