Lost in a Landscape: Pudding Norton

Lost in a Landscape: Pudding Norton

There’s a lot to be intrigued about in towns like Fakenham. Not unlike North Walsham, it sits on a small winding road that makes it’s a much less direct but more interesting journey than somewhere like Attleborough or Wymondham. The drive is less...
Lost in a landscape: Wretham Circles

Lost in a landscape: Wretham Circles

East Wretham There’s a lightness about Breckland, a dryness and pallor to the landscape, which make it feel somehow different to the rest of Norfolk. It’s in the soil, the thin sand with its luggage of chalk and flint, carrying exhausted soldierly lines of...
Forgotten outposts: The Bure line at Oxnead

Forgotten outposts: The Bure line at Oxnead

You will, as you drive around north and east Norfolk, pass these all over the place. In fact you’ll find them all over the county as you will tank blocks and mortar spigots, even the odd trench line still exists all still protecting us from a long dead, now...
Lost in a Landscape: Oxnead

Lost in a Landscape: Oxnead

A pasture for the oxen, that’s what Oxnead means so say various sources. Others indicate that the Ox- may come from the word Ouse (Udso), which is an older form from our ginger forefathers possibly of Celt or proto-Celtic origin probably meaning River. It maybe...