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Barningham Hall
Barningham Hall is a privately owned Grade I listed country house and estate, half a mile north-west of the village of Matlaske in the English County of Norfolk, United Kingdom. The house was built for Sir Edward Paston in 1612, although the house seen today is the result of renovations, alterations and an enlargement project carried out under the supervision and design of Humphry Repton and his architect son John Adey Repton in 1805. Description The hall stands within its 4,000 acre estate and was remodelled in 1805 by the Reptons. The main body of the structure is built in red brick with stone dressings. The west facing façade has five bays with the central bay used as the porch and front entrance to the house. This façade dates from the early house built by Paston. The porch has polygonal angled buttresses to each corner topped with finials. The bays continue up through the steep roof to form two storey dormers giving the hall an impression of height. The porch has a sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barningham Winter
Barningham may refer to: Places in England * Barningham, County Durham * Barningham, Suffolk * Barningham Green, a village in Norfolk * Little Barningham, Norfolk * North Barningham, Norfolk People * Alex Barningham (1889–1956), Australian rules footballer * John Barningham (died 1448), English theologian * Richard Barningham (16th century), English academic {{dab, geodis, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plumstead, Norfolk
Plumstead is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is north north west of Norwich, south-west of Cromer and north-east of London. The nearest town is Holt which is to the north west of the village. The nearest railway station is in the town of Sheringham where access to the national rail network can be made via the Bittern Line to Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. Plumstead falls within the area covered by North Norfolk District Council. (Plumstead should not be confused with the Norfolk villages of Great Plumstead and Little Plumstead which are located close to each other, about 12 miles away, to the north-east of Norwich). History The villages name means 'Plum-tree place'. Plumstead has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085. In the great book Plumstead is recorded by the names ''Plumestead''. The main landholder was William de Warenne. Saint Michael parish church The Grade II* listed parish church of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxnead
Oxnead is a list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom, lost settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brampton, Norfolk, Brampton, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is roughly three miles south-east of Aylsham. It now consists mostly of St Michael's Church and Oxnead Hall. The hall was the principal residence of the Paston family from 1597 until the death of William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth in 1732. Under Sir William Paston (1610–1663), Oxnead was the site of several works by the architect and sculptor, Nicholas Stone, master-mason to Kings James I of England, James I and Charles I of England, Charles I. In 1931 the parish had a population of 66. History Early history According to Blomefield, the place takes its name from its site on meadows beside a river known to the Britons (historical), Britons and Saxons as the Ouse. At the time of the Domesday Book, Domesday survey in 1086, the estate belonged to Halden and altogether ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paston, Norfolk
Paston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is north-east of North Walsham and south-east of Cromer. It is north-east of the city of Norwich. The village sits astride the coast road between Mundesley and Bacton, Norfolk, Bacton. The nearest railway station is at North Walsham railway station, North Walsham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport, Norwich International. The village gives its name to the Pastonian Stage, a British regional subdivision of the Pleistocene Epoch (geology), Epoch. The village was served by Paston & Knapton railway station on the North Walsham to Cromer section of the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway from 1881 until 1964. History The Manorialism, manor of Paston is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Pastuna'' from the Roman name ''Terra Pastorini'' ("Shepherds' Land"), one of the many English holdings of William de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caister Castle
Caister Castle is a 15th-century moated castle situated in the parish of West Caister, some north of the town of Great Yarmouth in the English county of Norfolk (). The castle had a 100 ft (33 m) high tower and was built between 1432 and 1446 by Sir John Fastolf, who (along with Sir John Oldcastle) was an inspiration for William Shakespeare's ''Falstaff.'' The castle suffered severe damage in 1469 when it was Siege, besieged and captured by the Duke of Norfolk. The castle, other than the tower, fell into ruin after 1600 when a new house was built nearby. The castle's tower is still intact and can be climbed by visitors. History A detailed inventory was made of Sir John Fastolf's personal goods after his death in 1459. It includes silver plate, equipment for his chapel, the clothes and tapestry in his wardrobe at Caister, his armour, and the furnishings in several named rooms and chambers at Caister Castle. Sir John Fastolf intended that the castle should be converted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Walsham
North Walsham is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Norfolk district of the county of Norfolk, England. The town is located south of Cromer and Norwich is south. Demography The civil parish has an area of and in the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census had a population of 12,829. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the Non-metropolitan district, district of North Norfolk. Transport The town is served by North Walsham railway station, on the Bittern Line between Norwich railway station, Norwich, Cromer railway station, Cromer and Sheringham railway station, Sheringham. Services run generally hourly in both directions and are operated by Greater Anglia (train operating company), Greater Anglia. The main road through the town is the A149 road, A149. The town is also located on the B1145 road, B1145, a route that runs between King's Lynn and Mundesley. The town is on the North Walsham and Dilham Canal, which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paston Grammar School
Paston may refer to: People * Edward Paston (1550–1630), a poet and amateur musician * Erasmus Paston, MP * George Paston (1860–1936), British author and critic * Mark Paston (born 1976), New Zealand footballer * Thomas Paston (died 1550), an English politician * Paston Baronets, the Earls of Yarmouth * Paston Coke (born 1971) Other * Paston, Norfolk, England * Paston, Northumberland, England, see Bolton, Northumberland * Paston, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire * Paston College in Norfolk * ''Paston Letters The ''Paston Letters'' are a collection of correspondence between members of the Paston family of Norfolk gentry and others connected with them in England between the years 1422 and 1509. The collection also includes state papers and other impo ...'' * The Paston Treasure See also * John Paston (other) * William Paston (other) {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth I Of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her mother was executed, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Henry restored her to the line of succession when she was 10. After Henry's death in 1547, Elizabeth's younger half-brother Edward VI ruled until his own death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to a Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, despite statutes to the contrary. Edward's will was quickly set aside and the Catholic Mary became queen, deposing Jane. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry IV Of England
Henry IV ( – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of King Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster. Henry was involved in the 1388 revolt of Lords Appellant against Richard II, his first cousin, but he was not punished. However, he was exiled from court in 1398. After Henry's father died in 1399, Richard blocked Henry's inheritance of his father's lands. That year, Henry rallied a group of supporters, overthrew and imprisoned Richard II, and usurped the throne; these actions later contributed to dynastic disputes in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487). Henry was the first English ruler whose mother tongue was English (rather than French) since the Norman Conquest, over 300 years earlier. As king, he faced a number of rebellions, most seriously those of Owain Glyndŵr, the last Welshman to claim the title of Prince of Wales, and the English knight Henry Percy (Hotspur) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escheat
Escheat () is a common law doctrine that transfers the real property of a person who has died without heirs to the crown or state. It serves to ensure that property is not left in "limbo" without recognized ownership. It originally applied to a number of situations where a legal interest in land was destroyed by operation of law, so that the ownership of the land reverted to the immediately superior feudal lord. Etymology The term "escheat" derives ultimately from the Latin ''ex-cadere'', to "fall-out", via mediaeval French ''escheoir''. The sense is of a feudal estate in land falling-out of the possession by a tenant into the possession of the lord. Origins in feudalism In feudal England, escheat referred to the situation where the tenant of a fee (or "fief") died without an heir or committed a felony. In the case of such demise of a tenant-in-chief, the fee reverted to the King's demesne permanently, when it became once again a mere tenantless plot of land, but could be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard III Of England
Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. Richard was created Duke of Gloucester in 1461 after the accession to the throne of his older brother Edward IV. This was during the period known as the Wars of the Roses, an era when two branches of the royal family contested the throne; Edward and Richard were Yorkists, and their side of the family faced off against their Lancastrian cousins. In 1472, Richard married Anne Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and widow of Edward of Westminster, son of Henry VI. He governed northern England during Edward's reign, and played a role in the invasion of Scotland in 1482. When Edward IV died in April 1483, Richard was named Lord Protector of the realm for Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wighton
Wighton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some south of the town of Wells-next-the-Sea, north of the town of Fakenham, and north-west of the city of Norwich. The medieval pilgrimage centre of Walsingham lies to the south.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central''. . The villages name means 'Farm/settlement with a dwelling'. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 203 in 92 households, the population increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes''. Retrieved 2 December 2005. Wighton is on the River Stiffkey and used to have a watermill, but this was demolished in May 1866. The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway runs close to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
