Welcome to the Knapton Parish website

Our independent website provides a common platform for various groups within the parish, including the Parish Council, the Church, The Knapton News and others to share their news and information on-line.
Our village website is undergoing some changes as we redesign some of the site, so please bear with us.

Village Hall Committee website

Village Hall image

http://knaptonvillagehall.org.uk/

Our three village websites

Over recent years, our clubs and groups have evolved to provide an impressive range of services and interests for our residents, from dancing and fitness to crochet and coffee.

To focus on what they do, both the Village Hall Committee and the Knapton History Group have developed their own dedicated websites and we are pleased to provide the links to both of them here.

Knapton History Group website

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The Village History Group is currently developing a new dedicated website to celebrate our Parish’s rich history, and we’ll have the link to it here soon

Click anywhere in this box to go to the new
Knapton History Group
website

Notice Board

Don’t miss out on the 

WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE 

The scheme is changing this year and will now be means-tested.  

However, if your only or main income is the state pension, you may be eligible for PENSION CREDIT which will automatically give you the full WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE. 

If you’d like to find out and get help to complete your application, drop in to the Community Rooms in Mundesley at any time between 10.00 and 3.00 on Thursday 24 October and chat to an advisor over 
coffee and cake! 

To complete your application, it will help if you can bring the following information but don’t worry if you can’t – come along anyway: 

Your National Insurance number 
Your bank account details to receive payment 
Information about your savings and investments (a bank statement from 1st September will be useful) 
Information about your pension (pension statement) 
Details about your housing costs 

None of your personal information will be retained and your session with the advisor will be 
entirely confidential. 

This day is being organized by the Trunch Group of Parishes.

We want to make sure you stay warm in your home this winter

scam alert image

Click the image above to go to our scam page

Trying to avoid being scammed by a voice on your phone or an email in your inbox is fast becoming a way of life!   How can you be sure if the polite voice on the end of the phone or the genuine looking email are really what they appear to be?
They probably are… but what if they’re not?

We have put together some simple ways that may help you to avoid being caught by these low-life

STAY VIGILANT – STAY SAFE

Knapton Support Hub

Events over the last few years have touched almost everyone, combining to magnify issues and problems that can seem insurmountable.
Fortunately there is support that can help to us get through these extremely difficult times and we have created a page dedicated to those services who can do just that across a wide range of issues from health & wellbeing to financial assistance to personal safety for adults and children.
Click anywhere on this panel to go to our Knapton Support Hub

Upcoming Village Events

Knapton Parish Council meeting

5 November @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Knapton Village Pond Project

Pond Conservation Guide

Restoring, creating and managing ponds for wildlife

Village Pond Project

Click the image above to go to the Norfolk Ponds website

We are all privileged to live Knapton in many ways, but how many of us know about our secretive little neighbours that live in the Village Pond on the edge of Wilds Way.

Great Crested Newts are a protected species and the Parish Council are about to embark on a very special project to ensure their long term safety and to make sure that we all live happily ever after side by side.    The PC has teamed up with Norfolk Coast and the Norfolk Ponds Project to create a learning environment where by helping to build it, children learn about the world around them, and they want all the children and parents in School Close and Wilds Way in particular to get involved.
The project will;

  • make the pond as safe as we can so that our younger residents can enjoy it
  • design info boards to go onto the fence
  • make the path through the trees (which forms part of the “Permissible Path” from Knapton to Knapton Green) as safe as possible
  • expand the “Bug Hotel” that currently exists in a small clearing so that parents and children can get involved to learn more about the world around us
  • add seating in the area
  • plant a small orchard area so that the space is used positively

We’ll let you know more as more details are released, but if you can’t wait you can always contact our Parish Clerk

Great Crested Newt

Click the link above to view or download the YouTube video by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust

Help us to create…
info boards…
bug hotels
mini orchard…

Contacting us is easy…

from anywhere, on any device…

you can contact…
about anything… anytime…

Contact us

Contact Form image

Clicking the image above will open our Contact Form in a new tab or page

Our on-line Contact Form

…is accessible from almost all every page on our site.

Or you can click the following link from any device that can access the Net

So you can leave a message for any group in the village simply by filling in the form and pressing Send, in the safe knowledge that someone from that group will get back to you, usually same day or next.

the church…

 ●  the Church Warden

the council…

 ●  the Parish Council

the groups…

 ●  The Coffee Club
 ●  Knapton’s Women’s Own
 ●  The Knitters & Stitchers
 ●  Clubbercise
 ●  Yoga & Mindfulness

select your subject

About halfway done the form is Choose your subject.   We pass your message on to the person best suited to handle it based on your chosen subject.

When you click in the box or on the down arrow, a list of the most popular subjects will appear, so go ahead and choose the one that suits you best.
And if you can’t see one that fits, just scroll to the bottom of the list and choose Something Else.    We’ll pass it on to the person we think best to handle it from what you write in the note box just below it.

Perched 43m above sea level on a hill with views of the sea, bordered by farm fields and long established woodland, criss-crossed by Quiet Lanes and well trodden footpaths, basking in the fresh sea air from the North Norfolk coast, Knapton is a little piece of heaven tucked away in a designated area of outstanding beauty.

We’re just three miles from the market town of North Walsham with it’s railway and shops, eight miles from the seaside resort of Cromer, with it’s pier and theatre and twenty miles from Norwich.

And our sleepy little village is just a mile or two from the gorgeous sandy beaches at Mundesley, Trimingham, Overstrand, Bacton and Walcott…

The tall proud cliffs add to the stunning views for walkers and beach combers alike.

But to stay safe, everyone should respect the cliffs and not try to climb them as this part of the coast has recently experienced some dramatic cliff slides

A farming community, our farmers contribute in lots of ways to our village life

A tractor ploughing a field north side of Knapton
We are surrounded by beautiful, country Quiet Lanes weaving their way through our parish…

Current Village Projects

The Parish Plan

It's the to review the 2008 Village Plan to reflect Knapton today

The 2023 Parish Plan

We will be setting up a Parish Plan page once planning commences in the New Year

Coming soon

FTTH Broadband

County Broadband carrying out survey's in preparation of their fibre broadband service

Better Broadband service

full fibre broadband connected direct to our homes is faster and more reliable

click to find out more

Road Safety

the Parish Council is pursuing five different ways to make our roads safer

you asked - we're trying

follow our progress as the Parish Council explores ways to slow down traffic in our parish

you can find out more here

Knapton News

Our quarterly parish magazine provides useful contact information as well as features on events and projects in the village.   You can find our more about the Knapton News and access our magazine archive going back to June 2012 on our dedicated page here.

Knapton Angels

The parish council have confirmed that with Covid still lingering around, the Knapton Angels will continue to be available to all residents within the parish to ensure that everyone gets the help and support they need, the they need it.

Click here to go to the Angels page

Village Carpark

Click the image below to go to our dedicated Car Park page and find out how to request an
Overnight Parking Permit
to avoid vehicles parked overnight being removed.

Village Car Park overnight permit image
Next Knapton Parish Council Meeting
Can you help to support our Parish?

Knapton Parish Council meeting

5 November @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

You can download the next Parish Council Meeting’s Agenda below, usually from around 5 days before the meeting date
You can download the Minutes from the last Parish Council meeting below, usually within a couple of weeks after the meeting was held

The Parish Council, the Knapton Angels , the Fête & Village Hall Committees and all the village clubs are made up of volunteers.

They are friends and neighbours who each give up a little of their spare time to make things better for all of us.

If you’d like to know more, why not get in touch and ask…

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