Editing Arminghall

{{Short description|Village in Norfolk, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}
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 | country           = England
 | coordinates       = {{coord|52.5896|1.3232|display=inline,title}}
 | official_name     = Arminghall
 | population        = 
 | area_total_km2    = 
 | static_image_name = File:St Mary's church Arminghall Norfolk (4785329366).jpg
 | static_image_caption = St Mary's Church
 | shire_district    = [[South Norfolk]]
 | shire_county      = [[Norfolk]]
 | region            = East of England
 | civil_parish      = Caistor St Edmund and Bixley
 | constituency_westminster = [[South Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|South Norfolk]]
 | postcode_district = NR14
 | postcode_area     = NR
 | post_town         = Norwich
 | dial_code         = 01508
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'''Arminghall''' is a village and former [[civil parish]], now in the parish of Caistor St Edmund and Bixley, in the [[South Norfolk]] district, in the county of [[Norfolk]], England. It is around {{convert|3|mi|km}} southeast of [[Norwich]]. Most of the houses in the village are located close to the church, which lies just west of the B1332 road from Norwich to [[Poringland]]. Syfer Technology, an electronic components manufacturer, is based at Old Stoke Road, close to the [[River Tas]]. In 1931 the parish had a population of 108.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10096844/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Arminghall CP/AP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=20 September 2022}}</ref>

== History ==
The name 'Arminghall' means 'Nook of land of Ambre's/Eanmaer's people'. The exact form of the personal name is uncertain.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Arminghall | title=Key to English Place-names }}</ref> Arminghall was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] as ''Hameringahala''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/norfolk1.html#arminghall|title=Norfolk A-C|publisher=The Domesday Book Online|accessdate=20 September 2022}}</ref> On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Bixley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10096844|title=Relationships and changes Arminghall CP/AP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=20 September 2022}}</ref> In 2019 [[Bixley]] parish was abolished to form "Caistor St Edmund and Bixley".

==Arminghall Henge==
In 1929 a prehistoric [[timber circle]] and [[henge monument]] site was discovered 1½ miles (2½ km) northwest of Arminghall village by [[Gilbert Insall|Gilbert Insall VC]] who had been taking [[aerial photography|air photos]] of the area in search of new archaeological sites. Whilst flying at around 2,000 feet (600 m) he noticed [[cropmark]]s of a circular enclosure made of two concentric rings with a horseshoe of eight pit-like markings within it. The entire site was around 75 m in diameter. The site was visited a week later by [[O.G.S. Crawford]], who pronounced it to be the Norwich [[Woodhenge]] but it was not until 1935 that it was first excavated, by [[John Grahame Douglas Clark|Grahame Clark]]. His work established that two circular rings were ditches, the outer one 1.5 m deep and the inner one 2.3 m deep, with indications of a bank that once stood between them. The pits in the middle were [[posthole]]s for timbers that would have been almost 1 m in diameter. The site dates to the [[Neolithic]], with a radiocarbon date of 3650-2650 Cal BC (4440±150) from charcoal from a post-pit. The henge is orientated on the mid-winter sunset, which, when viewed from the henge, sets down the slope of nearby high ground, Chapel Hill.

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Arminghall}}
*[http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/arminghall/arminghall.htm Arminghall Church]
*[http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/a/arminghall/white1883.shtml Arminghall] on [[Genuki]]
*[http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3001/arminghall_henge.html Arminghall Henge on The Modern Antiquarian]
*[http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=4797 Arminghall Henge on the Megalithic Portal]
*[http://www.uea.ac.uk/~jwmp/CAA2003.pdf Arminghall Henge in Virtual Reality]
*[http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/Cameron%20Self%20Poems/Arminghall%20Man.htm Arminghall Man - poem by Cameron Self]
*{{OpenDomesday|TG2504|arminghall|Arminghall}}

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[[Category:Villages in Norfolk]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in Norfolk]]
[[Category:Former civil parishes in Norfolk]]
[[Category:South Norfolk]]


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