Colby, Norfolk

Village and civil parish in Norfolk, England

Human settlement in England

Colby CP

District

North Norfolk

Shire county

Norfolk

Region

East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townNORWICHPostcode districtNR11Dialling code01263PoliceNorfolkFire Norfolk Ambulance East of England

List of places: UK; England; Norfolk

52°50′10″N 1°17′56″E / 52.83598°N 1.29883°E / 52.83598; 1.29883

Colby is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.^[1] The village is 8.6 miles (13.8 km) south of Cromer, 16.8 miles (27.0 km) north-north-west of Norwich, 5.2 miles (8.4 km) west-north-west of North Walsham and 131 miles (211 km) north-east of London.

Name

Colby is first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Colebei in 1086.^[2]

Colby's name is from Old Norse for Koli′s bý "farmstead or village",^[3]^[2] the personal name Koli being specifically Old Danish, a variant form of Old Norse Kolr.^[4]

Note : English place-names in -by corresponds to Norman place-names in -ville "farmstead, village" with a personal name of Old Scandinavian origin. Therefore, Colby is similar to the numerous Collevilles (former Colevilla "Colevile"), such as Colleville-Montgomery, Colleville-sur-Mer, etc.^[5]

History

In the Domesday Book, Colby is recorded as a settlement of 21 households in the hundred of South Erpingham. In 1086, the village formed part of the East Anglian estates of King William I.^[6]

Geography

In the 2011 Census, Colby was recorded as a having 494 residents living in 213 households.^[7]

Colby falls within the constituency of North Norfolk and is represented at Parliament by Duncan Baker MP of the Conservative Party.^{[citation needed]}

St. Giles' Church

Colby's parish church is of Norman origin and is dedicated to Saint Giles.^[8]

Notable residents

Jack van Poortvliet – Leicester Tigers and England rugby union player

War memorial

Colby's war memorial is located inside St. Giles' Church and lists the following names for the First World War:

Second-Lieutenant Reginald A. Sarsby (1893–1915), 10th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Pioneer Charles H. Lee (1892–1918), Royal Engineers
Private Stanley A. Jordan (d.1918), 15th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Private Frederick Doughty (1893–1917), Hertfordshire Regiment
Private Stanley H. Rouse (1899–1918), 2nd (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment
Private William E. Daniels (d.1915), 2/6th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Frederick J. Matthews (1896–1915), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Cecil H. Burdett (1895–1916), 8th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Bertie H. Lown (1898–1917), 8th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Alfred E. Turner (1886–1916), 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Arthur W. Cooper (1892–1918), 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Private D'Arcy W. W. Hardingham (1899-1918), 13th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment

And, the following for the Second World War:

Corporal Edward L. Hall (1922–1943), 5th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Private Sidney Hudson (1920–1944), 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

References

^ Ordnance Survey, Explorer Sheet 252, Norfolk Coast East, ISBN 978-0-319-46726-8
^ ^a ^b A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 179 (read online) [1]
^ University of Nottingham. (2022). Retrieved 12 December 2022. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Colby
^ Nordic Names : origin and etymology of Koli (read online) [2]
^ René Lepelley, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 1996 ISBN 2-905461-80-2, p. 97a
^ Domesday Book. (1086). Retrieved 12 December 2022. https://opendomesday.org/place/TG2231/colby/
^ Office for National Statistics. (2011). Retrieved 12 December 2022. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E04006403
^ Knott, S. (2018). Retrieved 12 December 2022. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/colby/colby.htm