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I went on a U3A walk around Angmering Village yesterday to look at the old buildings (of corse I didn't take my camera so I used my iPhone)

Taken at 15:38 on Tuesday 3rd November 2015.

 

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I wus carryin’ my pack along the dusty Wymondham road,

When along came a tractor with a high and canvas-covered load.

“If you gorn to Wymondham, bor, with me you can ride.”

And so I climbed into the cab and then settled down inside.

He asked me if I’d seen a rud with so much dust and sand.

And I say, “Listen, I’ve travelled every rud in this hare land!”

 

I’ve been everywhere, man.

I’ve been everywhere, man.

Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.

I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.

Of travel, I’ve had my share man.

I’ve been everywhere.

 

I’ve been to:

Gimingham, Trimingham, Bressingham, Bessingham,

Banningham, Briningham, Cressingham, Lessingham,

Rudham, Ludham, Bodham, Bacton,

Thurton, Merton, Binham, Wacton,

Denver, Cranworth, Croxton, Cromer

North Creake and South Creake, I’m a loner.

 

I’ve been everywhere, man.

I’ve been everywhere, man.

Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.

I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.

Of travel, I’ve had my share man.

I’ve been everywhere.

 

I’ve been to:

Hemsby, Clippesby, Stokesby, Thrigby,

Filby, Billockby, Rollesby, Oby

Happisburgh, Tasburgh, Smallburgh, Narborough,

Trowse, Trunch, Attleborough, Oxborough,

East Winch, West Winch, Wiveton, Barton Broad,

Wroxham Broad, Ranworth Broad, Decoy Broad, good Lord.

 

I’ve been everywhere, man.

I’ve been everywhere, man.

Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.

I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.

Of trouble, I’ve had my share man.

I’ve been everywhere.

 

I’ve been to:

Upwell, Outwell, Brundall, Bradwell,

Ashill, How Hill, Snarehill, Bunwell,

Larling, Harling, Kelling, Blickling,

Haddiscoe, Saddlebow, Diss, Hickling,

Cranwich, Crostwight, Crostwick, Dumpling Green,

Pudding Norton, Quarles, see what I mean.

 

I’ve been everywhere, man.

I’ve been everywhere, man.

Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.

I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.

Of travel, I’ve had my share man.

I’ve been everywhere.

 

I’ve been to:

Sea Palling, Wood Dalling, Stanford, Barford,

Hainford, Horstead, Langford, Narford,

Walsingham, Weasenham, Watton, Woodbastwick,

Pentney, Potter, Pensthorpe, Postwick

Rockland, Ringland, Ringstead, Norwich City,

Deopham, Reepham, Dereham, what a pity.

 

I’ve been everywhere, man.

I’ve been everywhere, man.

Crossed the Fenlands bare, man.

I’ve breathed the Broadland air, man.

Of travel, I’ve had my share man.

I’ve been everywhere.

 

Original version here

St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk

 

In loving memory of

Herbert James Hoggett

(of the Norfolk Regt.)

Member of this Choir

who fell in the Great War

April 28th 1917, aged 20.

 

In hope of the Resurrection to Eternal Life through Jesus Christ.

 

This tablet is erected by his mother.

St Michael's church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk

Old wooden crossroad sign at the junction of Watton Road, Pilgrims Way and Caudte Hill near Great Cressingham in Norfolk. One bar of the sign is missing and it badly needs a repaint, but it's surprising that it's lasted so long without been replaced by something more modern and easy to maintain.

 

Ref No 3.2018 07 28 025

Copyright © Keith Long - All rights reserved

In between the village of Little Cressingham and the market town of Watton is this beautiful round towered church, the tower is late for a round tower, being 13th century, the windows are Decorated in style and date.

There is a north aisle and south porch, which is the main entrance, the nave and chancel are the same width and match very well with their tiled roofs.

  

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The ruined tower of the Church of St Andrew

  

Just playing around in my local village church of St Michaels in Great Cressingham, Norfolk, to see what I could come up with.

St Andrew's church, Little Cressingham, Norfolk

 

This delightful church, part ruin and part rebuilding, is open all day, every day.

Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

   

This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.

   

Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.

     

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation

 

detail of the apron with coat of arms

St Andrew, Little Cressingham, Norfolk

 

The exterior is memorable, for the tower partly fell, taking out the west end of the nave and its aisles and leaving a truncated space wider than it is long. An elegant, characterful interior.

Just realised that I had missed adding the photo of this side of the sign to the album. Only 7 years late.

 

Location:

N52°34.930 E0°43.886

52.5821666666667,0.731433333333333

 

From time to time I go out on a little day trip without my family - with regret on my side and probably celebrations on theirs!

 

When I get back usually the first question from my wife is did I see any churches I liked. (She would secretly like my soul to be saved by going to church. Her good deeds are legendary but she is still a bit concerned that it won't be enough to get me a nod from the bouncers on the door - bless :-)

 

But for me it just means did I see a church that I want to drag her along to see and marvel at. And today I did. I like St Andrews - it may be part ruin but what a ruin - and although I had a busy day mapped out in my head to make the most of the day alone but somehow I struggled to drag myself away. Even though its on a quiet country road with only a few houses nearby, people passed on foot and cycle, (but not a single car) and waved and stopped to pass the time of day. Its not something I'm all that good at but in this place it seemed right.

 

The only downside was that it was locked so I couldn't get in to see the village war memorial. The upside is that I get to come here again!

 

As usual I read Simon Knotts' piece on the church after I visited - I like to form my own opinions. It seems on this one we were of a like mind.

www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littlecressingham/littlecressin...

 

Just a small peregrination along the 1108 from Little Cressingham brings you to the lovely market town of Watton whose parish church, St Mary is on the Norwich side of the town centre.

The church is mostly 13th century, but the large north and south aisles are very much later dating from the 1800's, unlike many other town churches, Watton didn't have a massive rebuilding in the late medieval period so still retains its round tower, unusual for urban churches, the present church has fabric dating from the early 1100's but there was a church on this site before this.

Also unlike a lot of churches, St Mary's has a very colourful Website

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1548-1617 Edward Franklin, rector, and his (headless) wife Rebecca 1553-1597 daughter of Rev. Thomas Willet of Barley and Elizabeth Standon, she was the widow of Rev. William Stanton Her brother Andrew is at Barley SEE ATTACHED

Children - 3 sons and 3 daughters including - .

1. Edward Franklin (1586-1644, rector of Great Cressingham who married Elizabeth daughter of Rev John Montfort

2. John Franklin 1590-1641 who married Margaret daughter of Thomas Taylor of E. Grimsby

3. Elizabeth

4. Anne

Edward was the son of John Franklin of Thurleigh and Elizabeth daughter of John Halle of Mildham/ Milham

"A payre of turtles (whome Gods dove together joynd in wedlock love)

Wee lived man & wife: combin'd both in one flesh, one faith, one mind

since one wee alway liv'd, the stone

that doth entoombe us dead, is one

Hayle blessed mate; no chance us twayne

can part, we'll.meete in heaven agayne"

Mills have been listed on this site since Domesday, but this mill dates from 1821. It was a dual power source mill, having the single storey watermill on the left and a 6 storey, 50ft high windmill on the right. The breastshot water wheel was 12 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide. The windmill had two pairs of wind powered stones in the upper storeys and another two pairs of stones in the lower section driven by the water wheel. It ceased wind operation in 1916 but continued on water and oil until 1952.

 

The dual combination is rare and there are only 2 others in Norfolk.

Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

   

This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.

   

Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.

     

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation

 

composite details of the 2 halves of the of the signature at the base of each pilaster: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

This was in an area where there is a small population of feral Reeves's Pheasants and when I saw it I initially suspected it could be a hybrid. It was about to disappear into cover so I quickly rattled off some record shots (poor because it was distant) before it vanished.

 

On reviewing the photos I couldn't see anything apart from the excessive white on the head that pointed away from it being a typical pure Common Pheasant. If the only anomaly was additional white then I concluded that the most likely explanation was leucism, and that it was therefore not a hybrid. I expected a Common x Reeves's Pheasant to show more obvious indication of Reeves's Pheasant that would be apparent even on a poor quality image such as this.

 

But today I was contacted by a guy who once owned a Common (Ring-necked) Pheasant x Reeves's Pheasant hybrid and he said it looked pretty much like this. A bit more research and I have found photos of this hybrid online which do indeed look much like this (e.g. here). Although these photos show other indicators that point to Reeves's Pheasant as a parent, these are rather subtle and would not be detectable on the poor views or photos I obtained on this occasion.

 

Given the closeness in appearance between this bird and known hybrids, the fact that I am not aware of this pattern of white appearing through leucism ordinarily and the coincidence that it is at the site where Reeves's Pheasants exist, I think the ID is a safe bet - but comments welcome!

 

Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

   

This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.

   

Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.

     

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation

St Michael's church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk

MILL AT LITTLE CRESSINGHAM. NORFOLK 1940.

27.06.11 Great Cressingham Norfolk.

Our caravan, and with some modification (Bloody accident) we managed to make the awning fit.

 

An ADL E20D SFD1D1 with ADL Enviro200 body, Turning out of Cressingham Road onto Shinfield Road.

The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.

 

(Wikipedia)

294/365 - A couple decided to buy the old Great Cressingham primary school when it closed down about 20 years ago. But instead of converting it into a contemporary living space with chic interior design they chose to maintain it as a Victorian school "museum", where every day is 1891.

 

They had an open day today as a celebration of victorian childhood, and it was a real step back in time.

Just playing around in my local village church of St Michaels in Great Cressingham, Norfolk, to see what I could come up with.

Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

   

This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.

   

Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.

     

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation

 

detail of the top of the monument

Research for the work we did for the Wallace Monument. This is the site of Wallace's famous rout of the English Army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. Fighting a modern and heavily armed enemy led by Hugh de Cressingham, Wallace and the Earl of Murray won with superior tactics and guerilla style fighting. Sadly Wallace wasn't able to carry this through and he was defeated at Falkirk by King Edward in 1298. I have a photo somewhere of me playing with Wallace's sword. BIG!

This is not the bridge from Wallace's era.

Early 1990's.

In Lewisham, in south east London, this was the view north along Lockmead Road, north east of the town centre, towards Cressingham Road, on January 18, 2013, after the first day of snow this year.

For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/

Looking at this Immaculate Austin i think A 40 pick up truck you would not think twenty years ago a barn fell it.'

It took john Bean two years and two pick up trucks to get it looking like this with proper sign writing by Wayne Tanswell

The Wallace Sword is an antique broadsword purported to have belonged to William Wallace (1270–1305), a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English occupation of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence. It is said to have been used by William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling in 1297 and the Battle of Falkirk (1298).

It has been alleged that after William Wallace's execution in 1305, Sir John de Menteith, governor of Dumbarton Castle received the sword in August of that year. But there are no records to that effect. Two hundred years later, in 1505, accounts survive which state that at the command of King James IV of Scotland, the sum of 26 shillings was paid to an armourer for the "binding of Wallace's sword with cords of silk" and providing it with "a new hilt and plomet" and also with a "new scabbard and a new belt". This repair would have been necessary because, according to legend, Wallace's original scabbard, hilt and belt were said to have been made from the dried skin of Hugh Cressingham, one of the English commanders at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Little Dunham is a village and parish situated in the Breckland district of Norfolk. The village lies 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Great Dunham and 6 miles (10 km) north east from Swaffham.

 

It is a quiet, rural community, sitting amongst predominantly undeveloped, agricultural land and situated in some of the highest land in Norfolk, at a three way watershed which leads to the rivers Wensum, Wissey and Nar.

 

Evidence has been found in the village of Neolithic Age habitation.

A roman road passed north/south through the village to the Roman settlement at Kempstone.

At the time of the Doomsday Book the village was included in the King’s manor of Sporle. The original site of the village was to the west of the church of St. Margaret. The meadow adjoining the church is thought to be the site of the former hall.

In medieval times an old road called Walsingham Way passed through the village and on to the shrine at Walsingham. A cross stood on this road at a location in the village which became known as High Cross.

 

In 1845 the village had a population of 298 and comprised of 1,837 acres. The East Anglian railway, later the Great Eastern railway, came to the village in 1848. Little Dunham station became a local centre for the transport of livestock, grain and milk and the station had its own pub called the Crown. The line was closed in 1968.

 

St Margaret's church was largely built in the 13th. century. John Venn, rectory from 1782 to 1793, later became a prominent figure in the Clapham Sect who did much to push forward the anti slavery agenda of William Wilberforce. John Nelson, cousin to Admiral Lord Nelson, was rector from 1820 to 1865 and he and his wife are buried in the church.

 

Little Dunham Lodge, completed in 1785, stands on the far side of the village and is reputed to be the highest house in Norfolk at 345 feet. It was at one time in the ownership of the Nelson family as was the nearby Curds Hall, now demolished. In 1814 an obelisk was built on the boundary between these two properties by John and Mary Drostier, an aunt of Nelson, to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Paris of that year, which ended the Napoleonic wars, and to celebrate the actions and commemorate the death of Admiral Lord Nelson. The obelisk was originally raised in order to be visible from Curd's Hall, where the Drostiers lived.

Another famous occupant of the lodge was the poet William Cowper.

 

On 23rd. May 1917, 6 German Zeppelins set out to bomb London but the winds at altitude were against them. Only four reached England, and none got close to London.

The last Zeppelin to come inland, L.43, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Hermann Kraushaar, passed over the coast near Hollesley, Suffolk, at 02.20 a.m. He maintained a north-westerly course over Suffolk, then over Norfolk where Kraushaar dropped 5 incendiary bombs over the village of Wretham at 03.05 a.m. followed 5 minutes later by another at Tottington. Continuing on the same course 2 more incendiaries were dropped at Little Cressingham at 03.25 a.m., but none of these eight firebombs caused any damage. Five minutes later L.43 dropped 3 HE bombs, one landed at Houghton-on-the-Hill, causing slight damage to crops, and 2 at neighbouring North Pickenham where they damaged roof tiles and smashed windows in one house.

The next village in L.43’s path was Little Dunham, which was bombed with 6 HE and 3 incendiary bombs at 03.35 a.m. A police report dated 26th. May 1917 states

'Seven panes of glass broken in cottage windows. Estimated damage 7/-.'

A further police report dated 19th. June 1917 states,

'The 3 incendiary bombs at Little Dunham were discovered when cutting grass in a field on the Field Barn, Little Dunham.'

This indicates that they were not discovered for almost 4 weeks.

Five minutes later 2 incendiary bombs were dropped at West Lexham but failed to burn. Another followed at Weasenham St. Peter but caused no damage. At about 03.45 a.m. L.43 dropped 3 HE bombs over Wellingham, where they damaged farm buildings, 5 cottages and the church, also causing the death of a farm labourer who had gone out to warn his employer that Zeppelins were in the area.

A few minutes later, 5 HE bombs and two incendiaries fell at South Raynham wrecking the interior of a cottage while the church, vicarage and 14 cottages suffered broken windows. Then 3 HE and 2 incendiaries dropped over East Raynham, breaking the windows in three houses and seven cottages, smashing greenhouse windows, uprooting trees and dislodging roof tiles. The bombs also killed two horses in a meadow.

With the sky now beginning to lighten, L.43 headed towards the coast, which it reached at 04.05am from where a mobile AA gun at Holkham fired 21 rounds without effect.

A significant response from the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy Air Service saw aircraft fly 76 sorties searching for the airship, but due to the poor visibility only one sighting was made. One RNAS pilot, Flt. Sub-Lt. H.D. Smith, did not return, it was presumed his aircraft came down in the sea after running out of fuel.

 

As recently as 60 years ago there were 5 farms in the village. Now most of the land is farmed by one farmer. For the first time in the life of the village there is no-one living in the village who is directly involved in agriculture.

 

The village sign depicts the Nelson Obelisk in the grounds Dunham Lodge. The date 1805 is the year of Nelson’s death and the sign was erected on the bi-centenary.

   

 

St Michael, Great Cressingham, Norfolk

 

For many years an absolute fortress, this church now has a friendly keyholder.

William Eyre ca.1509 in the dress of a Judge of Common Pleas.

The brass of his wife Elizabeth has disappeared

We had a lovely last meeting of the Capturing Our Wayland Heritage Focus Group last night, we must have all been good as Father Christmas came. The 13 Wayland Heritage books with DVDs have all been published for Ashill, Breckles & Stow Bedon, Carbrooke, Great Gressingham, Little Cressingham, Great Hockham, Griston, Ovington, Saham Toney, Scoulton, Thompson, Merton and Watton. They are available from the Wayland Partnership at Wayland House, High Street, Watton. The price is £6 for Hockham, Little Cressingham and Ovington all the rest are £8, most of the money will go towards reprinting the books and £2 for supporting a new Wayland Heritage group that will be forming early in the new year, to continue the work of researching and recording the areas history. It has been a great joy and a privilage to have been Wayland Heritage Officer for the project Jan 2009 to end Dec 2011.

Thank you all, have a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year

Sue White

NFK 265

St Michael's Church, Great Cressingham, Norfolk

Date: about 1910 to 1920

 

St Michael, Great Cressingham, Norfolk

 

For many years an absolute fortress, this church now has a friendly keyholder.

Church of St George.

 

Monument to Charles Parrott †1787. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his wife, Maria. Attributed to De Carle.

 

The monument is a version of that to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf. In both the inscriptions are set within an open pediment with urn and fluted Corinthian capitals with the coat of arms in the apron. De Carle signed an even larger version, the monument to the Earl of Clermont †1806 at nearby Little Cressingham.

 

Charles Parrott, born in 1705 was appointed rector in 1757. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he had been appointed a fellow of the college from 1733 -1757. He was clearly wealthy and as the inscription records, generous. In Wootton, Oxfordshire he owned Parrott's, a late 17th century farmhouse named after him, and founded the village school. According to the note on his portrait in New College was a major benefactor to the College and its livings, giving £5,600 in all, and later generously endowed Saham Toney. His one poem, Ode to the Night, was published by a leading London publisher, Robert Dodsley, in his weekly journal, The World, in 1755. It was republished, with a different dedication in 1788, a year after Parrot’s death.

 

Wootton Parish, A P Baggs, Christina Colvin, H M Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn and A Tomkinson, 'Parishes: Wootton', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 11, Wootton Hundred (Northern Part), ed. Alan Crossley (London, 1983), pp. 259-285;artuk.org/discover/artworks/

reverend-charles-parrott-222724; spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord

 

detail of the coat of arms

 

Stirling bridge. The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. The forces of Andrew de Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.

  

Griston Hall close to Wayland Wood is said to have been the home of the wicked uncle in the tale of 'The Babes in the Wood'.

 

If you live in the Wayland area (the parishes of Ashill, Carbrooke, Caston, Great Cressingham, Griston, Great Hockham, Little Cressingham with Threxton, Merton, Ovington, Saham Toney, Scoulton, Stow Bedon with Breckles, Thompson or Watton) and would like to tell your story in a short film, the Capturing Our Wayland Heritage Project is joining with the BBC Voices Project who are running a film-making workshop on 30th Sept 10am-3pm in Norwich. There are a few places left. If you would like to come email sue@wayland.org.uk

wayland-heritage.blogspot.com/

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