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
There’s a lightness about Breckland, A dryness and pallor to the soils that make it feel somehow different from the rest of Norfolk. It’s in the earth, the thin sand with it’s luggage of chalk and flint, the exhausted soldierly lines of Scots pine...
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
A pasture for the oxen, that’s what it 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 a...IW on Facebook
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Bombing Britain - War, State and Society
Each pin represents the location of one of over 32,000 German air raids on the United Kingdom between September 1939 and March 1945. By clicking on a pin, you can open a window that displays informati...Sheringham
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Watch A Fine Resort: Sheringham - BFI Player
Clean golden sands, and the purest air in England. There are many reasons to visit the seaside at Sheringham, says this 1961 promotional film.