upwell
{{short description|Village in Norfolk, England}}
{{for|the oceanic term|Upwelling}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|52.59564|0.21342|display=inline,title}}
| os_grid_reference = TF500020
| official_name = Upwell
| population = 4734
| area_total_km2 = 27.65
| shire_district = King's Lynn and West Norfolk
| shire_county = Norfolk
| region = East of England
| civil_parish = Upwell
| constituency_westminster =
| postcode_district = PE14
| postcode_area = PE
| post_town = WISBECH
| dial_code =
| static_image = Houses on Town Street (B1412) - geograph.org.uk - 1241066.jpg
| static_image_width = 240px
| static_image_caption = View of Upwell showing the Well Creek and Town Street
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Upwell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Upwell village is on the A1101 road, as is Outwell, its conjoined village at the north. The nearest towns are Wisbech to the north-west and Downham Market to the east.
The parish covers an area of {{convert|27.65|km2|abbr=on}} and had a population of 2,456 in 1,033 households at the 2001 census,[http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211032229/http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls |date=2017-02-11 }}. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. increasing to 2,750 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130026&c=Upwell&d=16&e=62&g=6449417&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440932514858&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=30 August 2015}} And most recently, In the 2021 census the town population has nearly doubled to 4,734.{{Cite web |title=Upwell (Norfolk, East of England, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/norfolk/E34004300__upwell/ |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}
History
The villages name means 'higher well (= spring/stream)'. Originally, part of a single place called Well; 'upp' was prepended to distinguish from Outwell.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Upwell|title = Key to English Place-names}}
Upwell in 1202 had a market-place and a weekly market. Marmont Priory was endowed by Richard I with 300 acres in Upwell and Outwell. The priory of Gilbertines was founded in the reign of King John. Cultivation of flax and hemp is referred to in an order of Sessions of Sewers in 1340.
Upwell was connected with Wisbech by a steam tramway in 1884{{cite book|title=History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood|author=F.J.Gardiner|publisher=Gardiner & Co|year=1898}}{{page needed|date=January 2019}}
William Wolsey a constable of Upwell, Outwell & Welney (and Robert Piggot of Wisbech) Protestants were tried at Ely for heresy and burnt at the stake in 1555.{{cite book|title= Wisbech in the Ely Episcopal Registers|author= G.M.G. Woodgate|year= 1931|publisher= The Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser|page= 28}}
In 1810 a building was being used as a temporary theatre by Joseph Smedley at a cost of five Guineas. {{cite book|title= Treading the Boards : Actors and theatres in Georgian Lincolnshire |author= Neil R Wright|publisher= SLHA|year= 2016|page= 69}}
In 1869 Upwell St Peter, was the richest benefice of the English church, being returned in the clergy list as worth £3,058 a year, though worth considerably more, and had just become vacant by the death of the Rev. William Gale Townley, who had held it only seven years. The living was in the gift of B. G. Townley. In the same parish was the rectory of Christ Church, returned as being worth £1,594 year, also belonging to the Townley family.{{cite news|title= Upwell St Peter|newspaper= Essex Herald |date= 14 September 1869|page= 7 }}
Governance
Upwell has a parish council. The parish falls within the electoral ward of Upwell and Delph. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 4,827.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13693609&c=Upwell&d=14&e=62&g=6449413&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440932792717&enc=1|title=Upwell and Delph ward population 2011|access-date=30 August 2015}}
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. Until 1974 it formed part of the Marshland Rural District.
See also
Further reading
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- {{cite book|title= The Ancient Town of Wella|last= Smith|first= William P|publisher= Carillson Publications|year= 2021}}
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References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Upwell}}
- [http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/u/upwell/ GENUKI(tm) page]
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{{Civil Parishes of King's Lynn and West Norfolk}}
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Category:Civil parishes in Norfolk
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