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OS grid reference
  
TG2834

Region
  
East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Local time
  
Saturday 7:00 PM

District
  
North Norfolk

UK parliament constituency
  
North Norfolk

Civil parish
  
Trunch

Country
  
England

Area
  
5.49 km²

Shire county
  
Norfolk

Dialling code
  
01263

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Population
  
909 (parish, 2011 census)

Weather
  
7°C, Wind NE at 16 km/h, 68% Humidity

Trunch is a village and parish in Norfolk, England, situated three miles north of North Walsham and two miles from the coast at Mundesley. At the Census 2011 the village had a population of 909. The parish covers an area of 5.5 square kilometres (2.1 sq mi).

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Map of Trunch, UK

St. Botolph's Parish Church

Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed 14th-century church of St Botolph. The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the twelve Apostles, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery. Only four such canopies still exist in England. St Botolph's also features a hammerbeam roof with carved angels, as well as medieval misericords under the seats in the chancel. Another medieval survival is the rood screen depicting 11 disciples and St Paul (their faces were scratched out during the Reformation). Lord Nelson's daughter is said to have been married in the church.

In 1589 Robert Thexton became the rector of Trunch. While at Cambridge University, Thexton had been the room-mate of Christopher Marlowe the famous, and infamous, Elizabethan playwright.

The fictional village of St. Just-near-Trunch is known in English folk music as the home of the former satirical folk duo, The Kipper Family.

References

Trunch Wikipedia