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Tuttington
Tuttington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burgh and Tuttington, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The village is 11.1 miles south of Cromer, 15 miles north of Norwich and 129 miles north-east of London. The village lies 3 miles east of the nearby town of Aylsham. The village’s name probably means 'farm/settlement connected with Tutta' or perhaps, 'farm/settlement of Tutta's people'. The nearest railway station is at North Walsham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. Its church, St Peter and St Paul, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. Opposite the church, there is a Dutch gabled building that used to be the village shop and post office, which closed in May 1987. Next door to that there used to be a pub called ''The Ship''. It has been suggested that as the village is several miles from the sea or any navigabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgh And Tuttington
Burgh and Tuttington is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 255 in 115 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 322 in 140 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland. The parish includes Burgh next Aylsham and Tuttington. Burgh next Aylsham has a grade I listed church dedicated to Mary, which features a notable fifteenth-century baptismal font. The church was restored in the late nineteenth century by Richard Phipson. Tuttington church of SS Peter and Paul is a grade II* listed building. Burgh Mill left, upright=0.8, Burgh Watermill Burgh Mill is a large Grade II* listed water mill dating from the early 18th century but greatly enlarged in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The basic machinery is probably early 19th century. It is built in 3 storeys with an attic from a clapboarded timber frame with some colour-washed br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadland
Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. Its council is based at the Broadland Business Park on the outskirts of Norwich. The district includes the towns of Acle, Aylsham, Reepham, Sprowston and Thorpe St Andrew. Several of the district's settlements (including Sprowston and Thorpe St Andrew) form part of the Norwich built-up area, lying outside the city's boundaries to the north-west and north-east. The district also includes numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. Some eastern parts of the district lie within The Broads. The neighbouring districts are North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, South Norfolk, Norwich and Breckland. In 2013, Broadland was ranked as the most peaceful locality within the United Kingdom, having the lowest level of violent crime in the country. History The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the whole of one former district and parts of anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round-tower Church
Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshire. There is evidence of about 20 round-tower churches in Germany, of similar design and construction to those in East Anglia. Countries with at least one round-tower church include Andorra, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Poland and South Africa. There is no consensus between experts for why the distribution of round-tower churches in England is concentrated in the East of England: *Round-tower churches are found in areas lacking normal building stone, and are therefore built of knapped flint. Corners are difficult to construct in flint, hence the thick, round walls of the towers. *The churches are found in areas subject to raids from, for example, the Vikings, and were built as defensive structures, churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheringham
Sheringham (; population 7,367) is a seaside town and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 252 - Norfolk Coast East''. . The motto of the town, granted in 1953 to the Sheringham Urban District Council, is ''Mare Ditat Pinusque Decorat'', Latin for "The sea enriches and the pine adorns".Town Crest and motto Retrieved 7 March 2013 History The place-name 'Sheringham' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Silingeham''. It appears as ''Siringeham'' in 1174, and ''Scheringham'' in the ''Book of Fees'' (''Liber feodorum'') in 1242. The name means 'the homestead of Scira's people'. Historically, the parish of Sheringham comprised the two villages of Upper Sheringham, a farming community, and Lower Sheringham, which combined ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Norfolk
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''villa''). C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Vision Of Britain Through Time
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website ''A Vision of Britain through Time''. NB: A "GIS" is a geographic information system, which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a particular set of statistics, overlaid on a map of the geographic area of interest. Original GB Historical GIS (1994–99) The first version of the GB Historical GIS was developed at Queen Mary, University of London between 1994 and 1999, although it was originally conceived simply as a mapping extension to the existing Labour Markets Database (LMDB). The system included digital boundaries for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Droving
Droving is the practice of walking livestock over long distances. It is a type of herding, often associated with cattle, in which case it is a cattle drive (particularly in the US). Droving stock to market—usually on foot and often with the aid of dogs—has a very long history. An owner might entrust an agent to deliver stock to market and bring back the proceeds. There has been droving since people in cities found it necessary to source food from distant supplies. Description Droving is the practice of moving livestock herds over long distances by walking them " on the hoof", sometimes several hundred kilometers. It was carried out by shepherds. The earliest written evidence about shepherds and their dogs dates back to the 14th century. Thousands of cattle were moved along the roads of Europe and Great Britain, and later sheep, goats, pigs and even geese and turkeys. The journey from pasture to market, slaughterhouse, or buyer could take anywhere from a few weeks to a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich International Airport
Norwich Airport is an international airport in Norfolk, England, north of the city of Norwich. In 2023, Norwich Airport was the 25th Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic, busiest airport in the UK and busiest in East Anglia. Norwich Airport has a Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. Along with a long history of flights to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via KLM Cityhopper, it offers flights to various destinations in the United Kingdom and Europe. Besides the commercial flights, charter operators also operate from Norwich. Bristow Helicopters, DanCopter, and Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore fly crews to North Sea gas and oil rigs, and SaxonAir operates executive, private aircraft and helicopter charter flights. The airport was established on the aerodrome site of RAF Horsham St Faith, a forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bittern Line
The Bittern Line is a railway branch line in Norfolk, England, that links to . It passes through the Broads on its route to an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the north Norfolk coast. It is named after the Eurasian bittern, bittern, a rare bird found in the reedy wetlands of Norfolk. The line is in length and there are 10 stations. It is part of Network Rail Network Rail Route 7 (Great Eastern), Strategic Route 7, SRS 07.11, and is classified as a rural line. Passenger services are operated by Greater Anglia (train operating company), Greater Anglia, which also manages all of the stations. History The line was granted permission in 1864 and the first stretch was opened between Norwich and in 1874 by the East Norfolk Railway. It was extended to Cromer railway station, Cromer by 1877 before being extended to in 1877, using a section of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line. From the early twentieth century until the end of steam services, in 1962, the Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk
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] |
North Walsham Railway Station
North Walsham railway station (formerly known as North Walsham Main) is on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the town of North Walsham. It is down the line from , between to the south and to the north. Train services are operated by Greater Anglia. Description Historically, the town was served by two adjacent railway stations; this existing station dating from 1874 served the Great Eastern Railway from Norwich to Cromer High, while a nearby station named served the former lines to (either via or via and ) and (via ). North Walsham Town closed on 28 February 1959, with the "Main" station renamed simply "North Walsham". In 2010 the station signs were changed to read "North Walsham, home of Paston College". The station is the site of the only passing loop on the route (although trains can also pass in the station at ), which has been worked remotely from Norwich since the line was re-signalled in 2000. The station goods yard, meanwhile, is the last operation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
