Trunch Chronology
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 2 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
1935 Jubilee Celebration
1937 Methodist Chapel 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