Melton Constable is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 6.96 km2 (2.69 sq mi) and had a population of 518 in 225 households at the 2001 census.[1] The population had increased to 618 at the 2011 Census.[2] For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of North Norfolk. The village sits on fairly high ground south-west of Holt.
The place-name Melton Constable is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Maeltuna. This may mean either 'middle town' or 'mill town'. There is a reference to 'Constabularius de Melton' in 1197, as the land was held by the constable of the bishop of Norwich.[3]
Melton Constable Hall is regarded as the finest specimen of the Christopher Wren style of house.
St Peter's Church
The parish church of St Peter's, Melton Constable is located within Melton Constable park; it contains many monuments to the Astley family, who formerly resided at Melton Constable Hall.
The village was struck by an F0/T1 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.[4]
The River Bure has its source in the parish, just south of the village, roughly half-way between the village and the parish church.[5]
^Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
^"Parish population 2011". Retrieved 25 August 2015.
^Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 321.
MeltonConstable is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 6.96 km2 (2.69 sq mi) and had a population of 518...
MeltonConstable Hall is a large (Grade I listed) country house in the parish of MeltonConstable, Norfolk, England designed in the Christopher Wren style...
[page needed] with six trains daily on the South Lynn to MeltonConstable section and seven from Melton to Norwich City, with numerous short workings. On Sundays...
MeltonConstable railway works was a railway maintenance and production facility on the Midland and Great Northern Railway. The buildings and operations...
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway's MeltonConstable to Cromer Beach branch line. The first section, from Melton to Holt, was opened on 1 October 1884...
London: J. Murray. p. 260. Edwards, J. Stephan (1 November 2010). "The MeltonConstable Hall or Hastings Portrait". Some Grey Matter: Lady Jane Grey and Other...
the ward. On 4 May 2017, he was elected as county councillor for the MeltonConstable division of Norfolk County Council. He was elected deputy leader of...
The Norfolk Orbital Railway – as the Holt, MeltonConstable and Fakenham Railway Company – is a proposed rail project in Norfolk, England, which is proposed...
Attleborough, Wymondham, Dereham, Fakenham, Walsingham, Wells-next-the-Sea, MeltonConstable, Holt, Sheringham, Cromer and North Walsham) and part of north-east...
of Parliament authorising the construction of a line north from its MeltonConstable station as far as Kelling Heath where it would fork: one branch heading...
of Norfolk, England, most of it in the Broads. The Bure rises near MeltonConstable, 11 miles (18 km) upstream of Aylsham, which was the original head...
handed in his resignation the following month, to allow him to run the MeltonConstable public house in Seaton Sluice, Whitley Bay. In January 1985, he joined...
England on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line between MeltonConstable and South Lynn. It was closed in 1959 along with the rest of the line...
Flyer. He died after a road accident near his home at Briningham, near MeltonConstable, Norfolk. Troilus & Cressida (1981) - Calchas Swallows and Amazons...
Aberdeen Angus A bull near MeltonConstable, in Norfolk Conservation status FAO (2007), worldwide: not at risk: 143 DAD-IS (2021): not at risk RBST (2021)...
main line from the Midlands into Norfolk. The M&GNR created a hub at MeltonConstable, which served as a junction for the route with lines heading west to...
with Glandford, Little Barningham, Little Snoring, Ludham Matlaske, MeltonConstable, Morston, Mundesley Neatishead, Northrepps, North Walsham Overstrand...
branch in Norfolk, England that connected the railway junction of MeltonConstable with Cromer on the sea. It was first opened in 1887, as part of the...
of 2008[update] only one creation was extant. Astley baronets, of MeltonConstable (1642): see Sir Isaac Astley, 1st Baronet Astley baronets of Hill Morton...
England, nearly 9 mi (14 km) north of Norwich. The river rises near MeltonConstable, 11 miles (18 km) upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth...
at the bottleworks. The MeltonConstable – built in 1839, on the north side of the burn. It is named after MeltonConstable, the Norfolk town associated...
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