including a late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap of an unusual form found at Brooke Farm. The Normans and the Domesday Book North Runcton has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086 where its population, land ownership and productive resources were extensively detailed In the great book North Runcton is recorded by the name of Runghetuna and Rynghetona. The main tenants being Hermer de Ferrers and William d'Ecouis. The survey also records always 11 villagers, 7 smallholders, 2 slaves, meadow, . Always 2 ploughs in lordship, 1 men's plough, 1½ mills. In the Domesday survey fractions were used to indicate that the entry, in this case a mill was situated within more than one parish. woodland at 20 pigs, 4 salt-houses and one third of a fifth. Always 1 cob, 4 head of cattle, 27 pigs, 100 sheep. 1 church, . 13 Freemen appertain to this manor, . Always 1 plough. Value always £6 4s 0d. The whole has 1 league in length and in width, of a 20s King's tax, it pays 12d. West Winch is in this measurement. All Saints' Parish Church All Saints' Church was built by the architect Henry Bell, a contemporary of Christopher Wren, who also built the Custom House in King's Lynn. At the time Bell lived within the parish at North Runcton Hall. The church is built on the site of the previous church, which was flattened when the tower collapsed in 1701. Most of the exterior is constructed from brick and carrstone, but earlier Norman and possibly Anglo-Saxon materials have been incorporated. Four Ionic columns support the domed roof with other columns supporting the tripartite chancel arch. The reredos panelling is the work of Bell. The tower has been re-built from Norman materials with carved fragments that might be older. The church was extended and altered in the late 19th century. The church's internal furnishings date from the 1713 reconstruction by Bell. The font is from St Margaret's, King's Lynn. Bell had died in 1711, two years before the work was completed. It is a Grade I listed building. In the 19th century the advowson was "in the gift" of Trinity College, Cambridge and the banker, Daniel Gurney. Appointments as rector included the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, chemist James Cumming and, as curate, the chemistry professor Joseph George Cumming. Governance North Runcton is a parish of the Kings Lynn and West Norfolk district