Bixley

Bixley is a civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. According to the 2001 census it contained 60 households and a population of 144. [ [http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/democracy/bixley_parish.asp Bixley parish information [South Norfolk Council ] ] It covers an area south of Norwich including Arminghall village.

In May 2004, the parish church of St Wandregesilius dating from 1272 was set on fire by arsonists and gutted. The church had no electricity and used gas cylinders for heating which it is believed were used by vandals to start the fire. St Wandregesilius is a Latinised form of St Wandrille and it is the only church dedicated to this 7th-century French abbot. [ [http://www.accessunderwriting.co.uk/news/Church_Insurance_Claims.html Church Insurance UK Claims ] ] [ [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bixley/bixley.htm Bixley ] ]

Sir Timothy Colman lives in Bixley Manor [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/news/062001/12/trowse1.shtml BBC Online - Norfolk - News - Trowse 1 ] ] in the grounds of which is the seven-storey stump of Bixley Tower Mill dating from 1838. At eleven storeys this was once the tallest windmill in Norfolk and possibly the tallest in Britain. It was reduced to its current height in 1872. [ [http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/WindmillsN/bixley-towermill.html Norfolk Mills - Bixley towermill ] ]

External links

* [http://cift.droptone.co.uk/reports/bixley.pdf The Bixley Report] on St Wandregesilius fire, written by J.R.A. Noyes of Cambridge University
* [http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/bixley/bixley.htm St Wandregesilius] on Norfolk Churches website
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorpehamlet/sets/72057594060387711 More photos] from Flickr
* [http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/WindmillsN/bixley-towermill.html Bixley Tower Mill]
* [http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/b/bixley/white1845.shtml Bixley] on Genuki

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