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Hundreds Of Norfolk
Between the 10th and the 19th centuries the hundreds of Norfolk and the boroughs of Norwich, King's Lynn, Thetford and Great Yarmouth were the administrative units of the English county of Norfolk. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters. The system of dividing shires into hundreds was established in East Anglia following the conquest by Wessex in the early 10th century. The boundaries described at the time of the Domesday Survey of 1086 remained largely unchanged up to the 1970s. The 36 Domesday hundreds were subdivided into ''leets'', now lost, and the boroughs of Norwich and Thetford ranked as separate hundreds, while Great Yarmouth was the chief town of three hundreds. Two of Thetford's parishes now lie partially in Norfolk with the remainder in Suffolk. The Domesday hundred of Emneth is now included in Freebridge, which was split into Freebridge-Lynn and Freebridge-Marshland. Docking hundred was then incorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Hundreds Map
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south. The largest settlement is the city of Norwich. The county has an area of and a population of 859,400. It is largely rural with few large towns: after Norwich (147,895), the largest settlements are King's Lynn (42,800) in the north-west, Great Yarmouth (38,693) in the east, and Thetford (24,340) in the south. For local government purposes Norfolk is a non-metropolitan county with seven districts. The centre of Norfolk is gently undulating lowland. To the east are the Broads, a network of rivers and lakes which extend into Suffolk and which are protected by the Broads Authority, which give them a similar status to a National parks of England and Wales, national park. To the west the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flitcham Burgh
Flitcham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located north-east of King's Lynn and north-west of Norwich, along the River Babingley. Together with the villages of West Newton, Shernborne and Anmer, Flitcham forms part of the Royal Sandringham Estate. History Flitcham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a village or settlement where 'flitches' of bacon were cured. There is, however, an alternate local theory that Flitcham's name derives from ''Felix-ham'' as the site of Saint Felix's original monastery after he arrived in East Anglia in the Seventh Century. In 1948, the site of a Roman villa was excavated close to Denbeck Wood, within the parish. After excavation, the villa was found to have glazed windows, a tessellated floor and a small courtyard flanked by other buildings from the same period. Further artefacts, including coins, pottery and metalwork dating from the Third and Forth Centuries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckenham
Buckenham is a small village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Strumpshaw in the English county of Norfolk. Buckenham is located south-west of Acle and east of Norwich. History Buckenham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Bucca's'' homestead'. In the Domesday Book, Buckenham is recorded as a settlement of 195 households in the hundred of Blofield. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of King William I, St. Edmund's Abbey and William d'Ecouis. The Old Rectory was built in 1827 for the Reverend T. W. Beauchamp and is Grade II listed with accompanying listed Stable & Coach house and a Seventeenth Century boundary wall. On 1 April 1935, the civil parish was abolished and merged with Strumpshaw. Geography In 1931, the parish had a population of 128. This was the last time separate population statistics were collected for Buckenham as in 1936, the village was subsumed into Strumpshaw Civil Parish. The River Yar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brundall
Brundall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Brundall is located west of Acle and east of Norwich. History Brundall's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and likely derives from the Old English for a small area of dry land with an abundance of broom. In the Domesday Book, Brundall is recorded as a settlement of 70 households in the hundred of Blofield. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of King William, Bishop William of Thetford and Gilbert the Bowman. In 1874, Brundall was the location of the Thorpe rail accident, a major head-on collision between two railway locomotives which resulted in the deaths of 25 people. In 1898, the boatbuilder, Brooms of Brundall, was established. This company has built high quality watercraft and operated water tours on the Broads for over one hundred years and is still in operation. Listed buildings within Brundall include Old Beams (Seventeenth Century), The Gables (c.1746), Braydeston Cottage (Seventeen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lost Settlements In Norfolk
There are believed to be around 200 lost settlements in Norfolk, England.Tittleshall, Godwick deserted medieval village Norfolk Heritage Explorer. Retrieved 2015-10-25. Literary Norfolk. Retrieved 2015-10-25. This includes places which have been abandoned as settlements due to a range of reasons and at different dates.Deserted settlement Norfolk Heritage Explorer. Retrieved 2015-10-25. Types of lost settlement include [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blofield
Blofield is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of the English county of Norfolk. The parish includes the village of Blofield and the hamlets of Blofield Heath and Blofield Corner. Blofield is located five miles (8 km) east of Norwich and west of Great Yarmouth. History Blofield's name is of either Anglo-Saxon or Viking origin and derives from either from the Old English for 'a blue field' or from the Old Norse for 'an exposed field.' Blofield is listed in the Domesday Book as a settlement of 61 households in the hundred of Blofield. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of William, Bishop of Thetford and Ralph de Beaufour. There are two 17th century barns in Blofield: Church Farm Barn on Church Road and Manor Farm Barn on Yarmouth Road. In the 18th century, Blofield was a centre for brick making and the manufacturing of tiles. There are numerous historic, listed cottages in Blofield. These include the 18th century "Little Timbers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bircham Magna
Bircham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It includes the three villages of Great Bircham, Bircham Newton and Bircham Tofts. The parish is located about 12 miles (20 km) north-east of the town of King's Lynn and 37 miles (60 km) north-west of the city of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of 9.58 square miles (24.82 km2) and in the 2011 census had a population of 448 in 202 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk King's Lynn and West Norfolk is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in the town of King's Lynn. The district also includes the t .... References * External links History of Great Bircham windmill External links Villages in Norfolk King's Lynn and West Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeston, Norfolk
Beeston is a village in the county of Norfolk, England, in the civil parish of Beeston with Bittering, west of Dereham and south of Fakenham. It may also be known as Beeston All Saints or Beeston-next-Mileham to distinguish it from the three other villages in Norfolk named Beeston. Sir William Calthorpe made presentations to the rectory of Beeston in 1460, 1481 and 1492. Keith Skipper, ''Eastern Daily Press'' journalist and champion of the Norfolk dialect East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia, primarily in or before the mid-20th century. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into modern Estuary English. However, it has received little attention from t ..., was born in the village. References * Francis White, ''History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk'' (1845, reprinted 1969) p. 327. External links Villages in Norfolk Breckland District {{Norfolk-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longham
Longham is a village situated in the Breckland District of Norfolk and covers an area of 540 hectares (2.1 square miles) with a population of 219 in 100 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 224 in 99 households at the 2011 Census. Longham lies north-west of Dereham and south of Fakenham. The villages name means 'homestead/village of Lawa's people'. Longham is served by the mediaeval church of St. Andrew & St. Peter in the Benefice of Gressenhall. It is a grade II* listed building. Robert Howlett The Victorian photographer Robert Howlett grew up in the parsonage at Longham from circa 1840 until 1852, the second of four sons of Reverend Robert Howlett and Harriet Harsant. He is renowned for his iconic photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Circa 1845, the parsonage in Longham had an electrical telegraph link to the local Manor House only eight years after Samuel Morse Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swardeston
Swardeston is a village four miles (6 km) south of Norwich in Norfolk, England, on high ground above the Tas valley. It covers an area of and had a population of 619 at the 2011 census. History One of the earliest mentions of this place is in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is mentioned amongst the lands given to Roger Bigod by King William I. The manor given to Roger included of land and of meadow. Its church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, has a 15th-century tower, but two arched windows indicate that its origins are Saxon and Norman. Edith Cavell, the English nurse shot dead by a German firing squad during the First World War, was born in Swardeston in 1865. Sport Swardeston Cricket Club Swardeston hosts a successful cricket team, who have won ECB National Club Twenty20 three times (in 2010, 2016 and 2019) and the ECB National Club Cricket Championship in 2019, when they defeated Nantwich at Lord's Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swaffham
Swaffham () is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Breckland District and England, English county of Norfolk. It is situated east of King's Lynn and west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of and in the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households, which increased to 7,258, in 3,258 households, at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the Non-metropolitan district, district of Breckland (district), Breckland. History The name of the town derives from the Old English language, Old English ''Swǣfa hām'' = "the homestead of the Swabians"; some of them presumably came with the Angles (tribe), Angles and Saxons. By the 14th and 15th centuries Swaffham had an emerging sheep and wool industry. As a result of this prosperity, the town has a large market place. The market cross here was built by George Walpole, 3rd Baron Walpole, Earl o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
