East Ruston is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located 4.1 miles (6.6 km) south-east of North Walsham and 14 miles (23 km) north-east of Norwich.
History
East Ruston's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a farmstead or village with an abundance of brushwood, or shrubs.[1]
In the Domesday Book, East Ruston is listed as a settlement of 87 households in the hundred of Happing. In 1086, the village formed part of the East Anglian estates of Ralph Baynard.[2]
During the Second World War, East Ruston was the location of British Army roadblocks and a reserve training area in preparation for resistance of a German invasion of England.[3]
Geography
According to the 2011 Census, East Ruston has a population of 595 residents living in 260 households. The parish has an area of 5.16 sq mi (13.4 km2).[4]
East Ruston's parish church was largely rebuilt in the Eighteenth Century on the site of previous worship and has been in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust since the 1980s. There are good examples of Nineteenth Century stained glass, particularly a depiction of the Presentation of Christ by A. L. Moore.[5]
Amenities
The public house is called the Butchers Arms.[6] East Ruston is the home to the noted East Ruston Old Vicarage garden which is open to the public.
East Ruston's war memorial takes the form of a short stone plinth topped with a Celtic cross, located in St. Mary's Churchyard. It lists the following names for the First World War:
