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Hickling, Norfolk
Hickling is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 22 miles south-east of Cromer, 20.3 miles north-east of Norwich and 137 miles north-east of London. It lies 3 miles east of the Broadlands town of Stalham. The nearest railway station is at Worstead for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The village's name means 'Hicel's people' or perhaps, 'Hicel's place'. It comprises two main parts, Hickling Green and Hickling Heath. Hickling Heath is what usually attracts the most tourists who come on boat trips and moor up at the staithe. Hickling village is situated on the edge of the Hickling Broads. By using the waterways, it is possible to reach Catfield Dyke, Potter Heigham and even Great Yarmouth. Because it leads to the sea the waters are slightly tidal and, depending on the time of year, the water levels can heavily rise or fall. There are many thatched huts dotted along the broads, one of the oldest being ...
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North Norfolk
North Norfolk is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Norfolk, England. Its council is based in Cromer, and the largest town is North Walsham. The district also includes the towns of Fakenham, Holt, Norfolk, Holt, Sheringham, Stalham and Wells-next-the-Sea, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The district lies on the north coast of Norfolk, facing the North Sea, with much of its coastline lying within the Norfolk Coast AONB, Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Some south-eastern parts of the district lie within The Broads. The neighbouring districts are Borough of Great Yarmouth, Great Yarmouth, Breckland District, Breckland, Broadland and King's Lynn and West Norfolk. History The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering seven former districts which were all abolished at the same time: *Cromer Urban district (England and Wales), Urban District *Erpingham Rural District *North Wa ...
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Catfield
Catfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located south-east of Cromer and north-east of Norwich. History Catfield's name is of both Anglo-Saxon and Viking origin, deriving from an amalgamation of the Old English and Old Norse for Kati's open land. In the Domesday Book, Catfield is described as a settlement of 31 households in the hundred of Happing. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Alan of Brittany and Roger Bigod. Catfield water tower was built in 1980 and was the first British water tower to be built from concrete. Geography According to the 2021 census, Catfield has a population of 983 people which shows an increase from the 943 people recorded in the 2011 census. The A149, between King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth, runs through the parish. All Saints' Church Catfield's parish church is located at the junction of Church Road & School Road, dates from the Fourteenth Century and has been Grade I ...
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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 ...
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Hickling, Norfolk
Hickling is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 22 miles south-east of Cromer, 20.3 miles north-east of Norwich and 137 miles north-east of London. It lies 3 miles east of the Broadlands town of Stalham. The nearest railway station is at Worstead for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The village's name means 'Hicel's people' or perhaps, 'Hicel's place'. It comprises two main parts, Hickling Green and Hickling Heath. Hickling Heath is what usually attracts the most tourists who come on boat trips and moor up at the staithe. Hickling village is situated on the edge of the Hickling Broads. By using the waterways, it is possible to reach Catfield Dyke, Potter Heigham and even Great Yarmouth. Because it leads to the sea the waters are slightly tidal and, depending on the time of year, the water levels can heavily rise or fall. There are many thatched huts dotted along the broads, one of the oldest being ...
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service. It is a large network of websites including such high-profile sites as BBC News and BBC Sport, Sport, the on-demand video and radio services branded BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, the children's sites CBBC and CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize and BBC Own It, Own It. The BBC has had an online presence supporting its TV and radio programmes and web-only initiatives since April 1994, but did not launch officially until 28 April 1997, following government approval to fund it by Television licensing in the United Kingdom, TV licence fee revenue as a service in its own right. Throughout its history, the online plans of the BBC have been subject to competition and complaint from its commercial rivals, which has resulted in various public consultations and government reviews to investigate their claims that its large presence and public funding distorts the UK market. The website has gone through several bran ...
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Hickling Hall
Hickling Hall was a grade II listed house in Hickling, Norfolk, England. Dating from the 18th century, it was destroyed by fire on Boxing Day, 26 December 2014. The building was made from brick, with a slate roof, and had two stories across seven bays, with a dormer A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a Roof pitch, pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the ... roof. It was accorded grade II status in 1955. The hall is currently being rebuilt. As of mid-summer 2016, missing brickwork has been replaced and new floors have been fitted. References External links News story with videoof the fire Grade II listed buildings in Norfolk Hickling, Norfolk {{Norfolk-struct-stub ...
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Canons Regular
The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are Catholic priests who live in community under a rule ( and κανών, ''kanon'', in Greek) and are generally organised into Religious order (Catholic), religious orders, differing from both Secular clergy, secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology. As religious communities, they have laybrothers as part of the community. At times, their Orders have been very popular: in England in the 12th century, there were more houses of canons (often referred to as an abbey or canonry) than monasteries of monks. Preliminary distinctions All canons regular are to be distinguished from canon (priest), secular canons who belong to a resident group of priests but who do not take religious vows, public vows and are not governed in whatever elements of life they lead in common by a historical rule. One obvious place where such groups of priests are required is at a cathedral, where ...
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Hickling Priory
Hickling Priory was an Augustinian priory located in Norfolk, England. The house was founded in 1185 by Theobald, grandson of Theobald de Valognes, Lord of Parham. By 1291 the Priory had possession of thirty two Norfolk parishes and held an annual three-day All Hallows fair at Hacheston in Suffolk, close to the founders' estate at Parham. The Plague killed all but two of its brethren and the house never fully recovered, being cited repeatedly thereafter by episcopal authorities for deteriorated buildings and lax observance by the canons. The Visitations by the Bishops of Norwich shed some light on the Priory's last years. The Priory acknowledged the king's supremacy on 4 June 1534. The Valor of 1535 gave its value as £100 with their most valuable possession being the nearby manor of Hickling. The house was dissolved in 1536. Today ruined portions of the church and claustral buildings survive on the privately owned Priory Farm in Hickling. See also *List of monastic ho ...
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Hickling Mill
Hickling Mill is a 19th-century grade II* listed windmill in Hickling Heath, Norfolk, England. It was built of tarred brick in 1818 to a design known as a tower mill, a tapering circular building 8 storeys high with brickwork Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called '' courses'' are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall. Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by ... thick at the base. Each floor has 4 windows to the four cardinal points of the compass although many are blocked up on the inside, especially on the north face. It is topped by a weatherboarded boat-shaped cap with a petticoat and fan cradle. The mill was used for grinding wheat for flour and by the 1860s also included a bakery. Production ceased in 1904, at which time the sails and fantail were removed. After several changes of ownership the mill in 1934 came into the ownership of the Forbes family, who ca ...
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Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth ( ), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside resort, seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ended. North Sea oil from the 1960s supplied an oil rig industry that services offshore natural gas rigs; more recently, offshore wind power and other renewable energy industries have ensued. Yarmouth has been a resort since 1760 and a gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea. Holidaymaking rose when a railway opened in 1844, bringing easier, cheaper access and some new settlement. Wellington Pier opened in 1854 and Britannia Pier in 1858. Through the 20th century, Yarmouth boomed as a resort, with a promenade, pubs, trams, fish-and-chip shops, theatres, the Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Pleasure Beach, the Sea Life Centres, Sea Life Centre, the Great Yarmouth Hi ...
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Potter Heigham
Potter Heigham is a village and civil parish on the River Thurne in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated north-east of the city of Norwich on the A149 road, and within the Broads National Park. The village is known for its medieval bridge and the Church of St Nicholas. There are two national nature reserves within the parish; the Ludham - Potter Heigham NNR is to the west of the village whilst the Heigham Holmes NNR is to the east. The Weavers' Way, a long distance footpath, also passes through the village on its way from Cromer to Great Yarmouth. History The village's name means 'Hatch homestead/village' or perhaps, 'hedge homestead/village'. There is evidence for Romano-British pottery industry here hence the 'Potter' addition. The parish of Potter Heigham (pronounced locally as Ham) has a number of features related to the World Wars. Hickling Broad, to the north of the parish, was used as a seaplane base during World War I. Part of Ludham Airstrip, a no ...
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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
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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 ...
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