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 CHRONOLGY

Click here for a spread sheet relating events in Trunch to the rest of Norfolk and Britain.

Pre-history     Source: heritage Norfolk web site

Mesolithic flaked axe head

Neolithic flaked axe head and flint flakes

Small hengiform monument

Neolithic enclosure

Bronze age ring ditch and pottery sherds

Iron age possible settlements and tracks

Saxon pottery

Medieval Times

Trunch Hall?

Pottery

Field boundaries


1086                Domesday book

Trunchet had freemen, farmland, meadowland, woodland for swine, a mill and ploughs, and St Botolphs Church. William de Warrenne came over with the conquest and was lord of the Gimingham manor which included Trunch.

1276                Tolls collected for Sat. market

1338-1748       Rectors listed in Bloomfield essay

1340                List of people who paid taxes to the King in Goodriches book page 10.

1349                Black Death

1381                Peasants' Revolt

1400                Guild House leased by Robert Hay

1493                Peter & William Prymrose – jury men

1496                Prymrose as jury man

1497                Thomas Primrose before the jury for obstructing a common lane between Trunch & Bromholm (Bacton)

1500?              Prymose as a landowner
                      
  Post Medieval Sixteenth Century

1538                Had to keep parish records

1546                Cicily Woorts married

1549                Kett's Rebellion

1580                John Prymrose as jury man

1592                Sixpence found

1597                Subsidy tax list available Click here

Late 16 C        Trunch Hall built

Brickyard

Enclosure

Field boundaries

Seventeenth Century

Ivy Farmhouse and barns

Brick Kiln Farmhouse
               
1664                Hearth tax list available click here

1665                 Black Death

1693                Thomas Worts died- left 20s per annum for 7 poor widows.

Eighteenth Century

                        Baptisms, Burials and Marriages - most available click here

1727                William Primrose married Anne Worts          

1745                Crown pub owned by John Norton, sold to Thomas Wells of Worstead

1793                Parliamentary bill to separate the parishes of Trunch and Gimingham

Nineteenth Century

1801                Census count - 351

1803                Trunch brewery built

1805                Gimingham House of Industry built

1811                Census count  - 363

1821                Census count  - 441

1830                Swing Riots

1831                Census count - 430

1832                Rectory built. 

1836                Erpingham Union formed – Gimingham & Sheringham workhouses

1837                Brewery extended by William Primrose

1838                First OS map – brickyard to West of church, Manor House & rectory marked.

1839                Manor House belonged to Jonas Walpole, leased to Matthew Clarke

1839                Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists merged

1839                Tithe Map

1841                Census – 464 - Details available here

1848 – 1851    West Beckham workhouse built

1850                Gimingham workhouse turned into cottages.

1851                Census – 451- Details available here

1852                National school built

1853                Church school room built

1854                White’s Gazetteer – 105 houses, 451 souls, PO, 2 tailors, 4 shoe makers, 3 shopkeepers, wheelwright, 2 blacksmiths, gardener, sadler, butcher, thatcher, 3 carpenters, school master, 2 pubs.

1861                Census – 464 - Details available here

1863                Church restored

1871                Census – 426 - Details available here

1877                Philip Smyth Primrose – brewer

1881                Census – 451 - Details available here

1883                White’s Gazetteer – different from 1854 - reading room & library, well sinker, 2 bricklayers, warrener, draper, school mistress,

1891                Census – 427 - Details available here

Twentieth Century

1901                Census - 379 - Details available here

1904/5             Churchill took over brewery

1907                Trunch branch of National Farmers Union formed at Crown

1910                Farm workers strike

1911                Census – 408 - Details available here

1914-18           WW1 – 14 men died – Details available here

1920s              Men's Club in the Village Hall

1921                Pop – 377       Trunch Rovers Football Club formed

1923               Agricultural workers strike

1925                Land use map – Park Farm & Manor House marked.

1930s              Girls Friendly Society in village

1930s              Trunch Social Club started as Brewery Workers Club

1931                Pop – 412

1933                School closed

1935                Jubilee Celebration

1937                Methodist Church in North Walsham Road built

1938                Brewery producing canned beer

1939                Cottages in churchyard demolished

1939                Church school room closed                

1939                Council houses built

1939                Brewery registered as private company

1939-45           WW2 – 1 man died

1950s               St. John's Ambulance Group in the village

1951                Pop – 376

1952                Morgans took over brewery

1952                Brewery demolished

1953                Coronation Celebration

1965                Trunch branch of Women's Institute formed

1960s 70s 80s bungalows built

1974                Trunch Mardle founded

1978                Scrapbook - for details click here 1978 Scrapbook 

1993               Trunch branch of Women's Institute closed
                       Trunch Friends founded
 

2006               Population 805 - 385 males & 420 women Click here for more details. 

2009               Village Composting Scheme started

2011                Census population 909








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