| Trunch | |
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  Trunch Location withinNorfolk | |
| Area | 5.49 km2 (2.12 sq mi) |
| Population | 909 (parish, 2011 census) |
| • Density | Proper |
| OS grid reference | TG2834 |
| • London | 134 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NORTH WALSHAM |
| Postcode district | NR28 |
| Dialling code | 01263 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
| 52°52′N1°23′E / 52.86°N 1.39°E /52.86; 1.39 | |
Trunch is a village andparish inNorfolk, England,[1] situated three miles north ofNorth Walsham and two miles from thecoast atMundesley. At theCensus 2011 the village had apopulation of 909.[2] The parish covers an area of 5.5 square kilometres (2.1 sq mi).
Trunch has never had any rail connections in the village itself but it does have a rail map outside its pub. Before the 1960s one could go to the next village along (Knapton) to catch a train to Cromer or North Walsham fromPaston & Knapton railway station (M&GN) to catch a train. Now the nearest stations are Gunton and North Walsham.
The nameTrunch is first attested in theDomesday Book of 1086, asTrunchet, a form found into the thirteenth century. The formTruch appears in 1203 and the formTrunch is first attested in 1254. The name has occasioned considerable uncertainty. An old suggestion that the name comes fromTronchet [fr], a French monastery that owned land in Norfolk, fell out of favour by the twenty-first century. The second element of the name is instead accepted to be theCommon Brittonic word found in modern Welsh ascoed ("woodland"). The origin of the first element has also occasioned debate, with a word related to Welshtrwyn ("nose, headland") being mooted. But in 2000,Andrew Breeze concluded that the first element was related to Welshtrum ("back") and that the name once meant "ridge by a wood".[3][4]: 173–75
Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed[5] 14th-century church ofSt Botolph.[6] The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of thetwelve Apostles, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery.[7] Only four such canopies still exist in England. St Botolph's also features ahammerbeam roof with carved angels, as well as medievalmisericords under the seats in the chancel. Another medieval survival is therood screen depicting 11 disciples and St Paul (their faces were scratched out during theReformation).Lord Nelson's daughter is said to have been married in the church.
In 1589 Robert Thexton became the rector of Trunch. While atCorpus Christi College, Cambridge, Thexton had been the roommate ofChristopher Marlowe, the famous, and infamous,Elizabethan playwright.[8]
The fictional village of St Just-near-Trunch is known inEnglish folk music as the home of the formersatirical folk duo,The Kipper Family.
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