Colton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Marlingford and Colton, in the South Norfolk district, in the English county of Norfolk.
Colton is located south of Reepham and west of Norwich.
History Colton's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Cola's farmstead or settlement.
Colton was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Coletuna, a settlement of 2 households in the hundred of Forehoe. The village was part of the estate of William de Warenne.
On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Marlingford. In 2001 the new parish was renamed "Marlingford and Colton".
The Norfolk Lurcher pub on High House Farm Lane which first opened in 1991 was called the Ugly Bug Inn until 2007.
Geography In 1931, the parish had a population of 175. This was the last time separate population statistics were collated for Colton.
St. Andrew's Church Colton's parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and dates from the fourteenth century. St. Andrew's is located on Church Lane and has been Grade II listed since 1983.
St. Andrew's was re-roofed in the seventeenth century and restored in the Victorian era. The church boasts a Victorian organ and a medieval wall-painting depicting the dangers of gossip.
Governance Colton is part of the electoral ward of Easton for local elections and is part of the district of South Norfolk.
The village's national constituency is South Norfolk which has been represented by the Labour Party's Ben Goldsborough MP since 2024.
War Memorial Colton's war memorial are two plaques (one stone and another brass) located inside St. Andrew's Church. The stone memorial lists the following names for the First World War: +RankNameUnitDate of deathBurialLCpl.Herbert Brown9th Bn., Norfolk Regiment1 May 1917Loos MemorialLCpl.Frederick H. Davey9th Bn., Suffolk Regiment25 Sep. 1915Loos MemorialPte.Daniel A. Shingles5th Bn., Duke of Wellington's Regiment4 Sep. 1918Denain CemeteryPte.Edward Loveday1/5th Bn., East Surrey Regiment26 Mar. 1919All Saints' ChurchyardPte.Reginald Stone7th Bn., Norfolk Regiment12 Oct. 1916Cabaret-Rouge CemeteryPte.George I. Fenn11th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment21 Oct. 1916Thiepval Memorial And, the brass memorial lists the following name for the Second World War: +RankNameUnitDate of deathBurialMne.Graham G. DunnellRoyal Marines att. HMS Hood24 May 1941Portsmouth Naval Memorial
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