Salhouse is a village and civil parish in the Broads in the England county of Norfolk. It lies south of the River Bure and Salhouse Broad, about north-east of Norwich.[Ordnance Survey (2005). OS Explorer Map OL40 - The Broads. .] The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 1,462 in 604 households, increasing to 1,486 in 638 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland[Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001. Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes . Retrieved 2 December 2005.] although areas adjoining the river and broad fall into the executive area of the Broads Authority.
Churches
All Saints Church, which is thatched and believed to date mainly from the 14th century (little remaining of an older chapel on the site), stands on a hill beside the B1140 Salhouse-Wroxham Road.
The church contains among other features an oak
rood screen, a unique sacring bell which hangs in the chancel and dates from the reign of Queen Mary, and two coffin lids discovered under the
nave floor in 1839 and dated to the 13th century. There is also a red brick Baptist church in Chapel Loke, off Lower Street, which dates from 1802.
Other buildings and facilities
To the west of All Saints Church stands the Grade II listed Salhouse Hall, built in red brick with limestone detailing, was uninhabited for 30 years before being refurbished for cottage rental. Parts of this building may date from the 16th century although it is mostly 18th century with 19th-century Gothic style remodelling.
The village also features the Bell Inn,
a 17th-century
public house and the Lodge Inn,
which is located halfway between Salhouse and
Wroxham. Salhouse is served by Salhouse railway station, located on the
Bittern Line which runs between and via and once featured two waiting rooms, although they are no longer in regular use. Salhouse has a post office, village store and coffee shop in Lower Street and several other small businesses including kennels and a Potter.
Salhouse Broad
The 32-acre
Salhouse Broad, lying about half a mile to the north of the village, is privately owned and jointly managed with the local community. It is accessible by boat from the River Bure and via a footpath from the village.
Toponymy
Salhouse is first recorded in 1291 as
Salhus.
[François de Beaurepaire (préf. Marianne Mulon), Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Seine-Maritime, Paris, A. et J. Picard, 1979, p.132.] The first element is believed to derive from Old English
salh "
sallow",
[De Beaurepaire 132] a kind of
willow. The word still exists in dial. English
saugh. Sallow descends itself from OE inflexional
salg- (ME
salwe).
[T. F. Hoad, English Etymology, Oxford University Press, 1993. p.414.]
The second element is the Old English hūs or Old Norse hús "house".
Homonymy with Sahurs (Normandy, Salhus ar. 1024) in the low Seine valley, which shows together with other place-names and anthroponyms in Normandy, that there were Anglo-Saxons among the Danish settlers.
A further variation on the spelling may be seen as "Psalhous" in 1452.[Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/764, with image available on the website: aalt.law.uh.edu which some defendants give as their residence; first entry in http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/H6/CP40no764/bCP40no764dorses/IMG_1789.htm]
Rackheath Eco Town
During 2008, proposals were made for a controversial new eco-town, to contain over 3,000 homes, to be built in
Rackheath and Salhouse.
The proposals have attracted much criticism, mainly because it is to be built on a
greenfield land site, within a mile of
The Broads National Park.
See also
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