Fring, Norfolk
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| Fring | |
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 All Saints Church, Fring | |
  Fring Location within Norfolk | |
| Area | 2.68 sq mi (6.9 km2) |
| OS grid reference | TF737346 |
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| District | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | KING'S LYNN |
| Postcode district | PE31 |
| Dialling code | 01485 |
| Police | Norfolk |
| Fire | Norfolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Fring is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
Fring is located 11 miles (18 km) north-east of King's Lynn and 35 miles (56 km) north-west of Norwich, at the source of the River Heacham.
Fring's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Frea's place.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Fring is listed as a settlement of 74 households in the hundred of Docking. In 1086, the village was divided between the East Anglian estates of Eustace, Count of Boulogne, William de Warenne and William d'Ecouis, Bishop of Thetford.[2]
A Roman road once passed through Fring.[3]
Fring Hall was built in the Nineteenth Century and was further re-built, after a fire, in the Twentieth Century.[4] It is likely that Fring Hall was used by the military during the Second World War.[5]
Geography
Due to its small size, Fring's population statistics have been combined with nearby Sedgeford for recent censuses.[6]
Fring is the traditional source of the River Heacham.
All Saints' Church
Fring's parish church dates from the Fourteenth Century, is located on Sedgeford Road and has been Grade II listed since 1953.[7] All Saints' remains open most Sundays for church services.[8]
All Saints' features a large Norman font and a stained-glass window depicting the Crucifixion, designed by Maille & Son.[9]
Governance
Fring is part of the electoral ward of Heacham for local elections and is part of the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
The village's national constituency is North West Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative's James Wild MP since 2019.
