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47 unusual facts about Norfolk


27th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

New Berne was the regiment's headquarters until Oct. 10, 1863, when it was ordered to Newport News and was for a time occupied with routine duties at Norfolk and Portsmouth.

Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life

Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) takes his viewers on a tour of his beloved home county of Norfolk.

Albert Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton

He attended an elementary school in Upton only before going to work as an agricultural labourer.

Alice Dingle

Feelings between Alice and Sam ran deep and when she decided to sell her farm to relocate to Norfolk, he was in turmoil.

All is Safely Gathered In

Location filming took place at a farm in Whitney Green near Thetford, Norfolk in the summer of 1972, and a large quantity of photographs survive from the shoot.

Anmer Hall

Anmer Hall is a listed country house in Anmer, Norfolk, England.

Boeing KB-29 Superfortress

The KB-29P was operated by 420 Air Refueling Squadron based at RAF Sculthorpe Norfolk during the mid-1950s.

Carenza Lewis

Educated at the school (since closed) of the Church of England Community of All Hallows, Norfolk, and at the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) as a field archaeologist for Wessex.

Cephas Thompson

Although Thompson lived most of his life in Middleborough, he produced portraits throughout New England and from 1800-25 also made annual trips to the south during the winter months to paint in Alexandria, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, New Orleans, Norfolk, Virginia, Philadelphia, and the Carolinas and Georgia.

Coby Miller

Upon his return in 2002 he won medals at a number of track meets in both the 100 and 200 m, including a personal best-equalling win of 9.98 seconds in the 100 m at Gresham.

Commodore Levy Jewish Chapel

Commodore Levy Chapel, the U.S. Navy's oldest land-based Jewish Chapel, at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia

Ditchingham Hall

Ditchingham Hall is a country house and estate, near the village of Ditchingham in south Norfolk, England.

Drake Witham

He also took third place in the Great American Comedy Festival in 2008 in Norfolk, Nebraska.

Edith Cavell Hospital

The £20m hospital, built to complement services provided elsewhere in the city, was named after the Norfolk-born nurse and humanitarian, Edith Cavell, who received part of her education at Laurel Court in the Minster Precinct.

George Ewart Evans

The Evans family lived relatively simply, moving their home in the neighbourhood to Needham Market and Helmingham to follow the teaching posts, and at his wife's retirement they settled down finally in Brooke, a small Norfolk village, where George continued to write.

Griffin Brothers

The Griffin Brothers were an American rhythm and blues band from Norfolk, Virginia, sometimes credited on record as the Griffin Brothers Orchestra.

Henry A. Wise

In 1865 he was unable to reclaim Rolleston, his plantation outside Norfolk, before he received pardon from the president.

Jacey Eckhart

Eckhart wrote over 400 newspaper columns for The Virginian-Pilot, in Norfolk, Virginia, using her knowledge and experience with military life.

James F. Amos

General Amos graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia and the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

John Moorman

Born in Leeds, the son of Frederic William Moorman (1872–1919) and his wife Frances Beatrice Humpidge (1872–1919), Moorman was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Kermet Apio

He is perhaps most famous for being the winner of The Great American Comedy Festival, based out of Norfolk, Nebraska.

Kymber

Another Cynemaer named his town in Norfolk Chineburlai, which is Kimberley today.

Langley Hall

Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, located in Loddon, Norfolk, England.

Mackintosh's

The business was purchased in 1918 by the African and Eastern Trading Company and underwent expansion at Norwich and mineral-water and cider factories in London, Ipswich, and Banham, Norfolk.

Mastocarpus stellatus

Generally common on all coasts of Ireland and Britain except perhaps for parts of the east of England - Lincoln, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Neoclassical architecture

In 1734 William Kent and Lord Burlington designed one of England's finest examples of Palladian architecture with Holkham Hall in Norfolk.

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E Minor (1906, rev. 1914) is an orchestral rhapsody by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on folk songs he had collected in the English county of Norfolk, in particular in the port town of King's Lynn and the surrounding region.

Opel Speedster

Produced by Lotus at their Hethel, Norfolk factory, the Speedster carried the Lotus internal model identification Lotus 116 and the code name Skipton for the 2.2N/A version and Tornado for the 2.0 L Turbo.

Orange-billed tern

:This article documents a bird seen in Norfolk, England in summer 2002 which resembled both Elegant and Lesser Crested Terns to some degree; the article is accompanied by photos of this bird and a presumed Elegant Tern seen in a Florida tern colony in 2002.

Pallid Harrier

It is a very rare vagrant to Great Britain and western Europe, although remarkably a juvenile wintered in Norfolk in the winter of 2002/3.

Richard Meek

Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Richard gained an interest in drama from an early age through taking part in lots of amateur dramatics at his local theatre.

River Burn

The River Burn, Norfolk, which flows into the North Sea at Burnham Overy Staithe in the county of Norfolk, England

Robert E. Jager

He then went on to be the lecturer in composition and directing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Samson of Tottington

Samson of Tottington (b. at Tottington, near Thetford, in 1135; d. 1211) was an English Benedictine monk who became Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds.

After taking his M.A. in Paris, Samson returned to Norfolk and taught in the school at Bury St. Edmunds.

Sandringham House

The property stood alone, surrounded by forested parkland in Flitcham, Norfolk, adjacent to Sandringham.

Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet

In 1841 he married his second wife Sarah, third daughter of Henry Barrett of Denton.

Sokolsky horse

The Sokolsky was developed in the 1900s, and has been heavily influenced by Belgian, Ardennes, Norfolk, Dole Gudbrandsdal and Anglo-Norman stock.

SS Kościuszko

During the German air raid on Denver, Norfolk, on 25 September, she was hit by two aerial bombs, but swift action by the crew prevented the ship from catching fire.

Surrey Hills, Victoria

Surrey Hills contains both the 'English Counties District', which is a small area between Canterbury and Riversdale Roads, where the streets are named after English Counties, including Norfolk, Durham, Kent, Middlesex, Essex and Suffolk Roads and the 'Chatham Precinct', which is located between Canterbury, Union, Mont Albert & Chatham Roads.

The Outer Banks Hospital

AH dropped its support and decided to join up with Sentara Health System (SHS) of Norfolk, Virginia.

The Town of No Return

After a bout of fencing at Mrs. Peel's flat, Steed and Mrs Peel leave on a train to visit Little Bazeley by the Sea, a village in Norfolk where agents have been reported to go missing.

The Vicious Kind

The screenplay was originally set in a small town in Rhode Island, but the film was shot in Norfolk, CT, which also became the character's hometown.

Thomas Ragland

By 1551, he had married Ann Woodhouse, daughter of Sir Roger Woodhouse of Kimberley, Norfolk.

William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham

de Grey was the third son of Thomas de Grey, MP, of Merton, Norfolk, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Windham.

Wood, South Dakota

In October 1929 the Chicago and Northwestern Railway reached town and built no further, Wood being the end of the 208 mile branch line from Norfolk, Nebraska.

WUTB

In exchange, Fox received an option to buy any combination of six Sinclair-owned CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates (two of which were standalone stations affiliated with the latter service) in three of four markets: Raleigh (WLFL and WRDC), Las Vegas (KVCW and KVMY), Cincinnati (WSTR-TV) and Norfolk (WTVZ).


24th Aero Squadron

On 31 January, the squadron was divided into four flights for training, which "A" Flight was assigned to RFC Wye, Kent; "B" Flight to RFC London Colney, Hertfordshire; "C" Flight to RFC Sedgeford, Norfolk and "D" Flight RFC Wyton, Huntingdonshire.

A Woman of No Importance

This appears to have made Tree all the more determined and thus Wilde wrote the play while staying at a farmhouse near Felbrigg in Norfolk — with Lord Alfred Douglas — while his wife and sons stayed at Babbacombe Cliff near Torquay.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 501

The business routes and US 221 pass through a commercial area and by the Anne Spencer House, then turn west onto 12th Street and cross Norfolk Southern's Danville District rail line a few blocks south of the Lynchburg-Kemper Street Station, which is served by Amtrak.

Baron Scales

The Scales family's main residences were Middleton in Norfolk, Newsells in Hertfordshire and Rivenhall in Essex but also held other lands including Ouresby and Torneton in Lincolnshire.

Berkley, Virginia

Kenneth Cooper Alexander (born October 17, 1966, in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American politician of the Democratic Party.

Bishop of Northampton

The Eastern District consisted of the counties of Cambridgeshire (with the Isle of Ely), Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Suffolk, all from the former Midland District, and the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from the London District.

Bishop of South Tokyo

He was born at Banningham, Norfolk, into a noted ecclesiastical family (his father was Bishop of Exeter from 1885 to 1900).

Bofors 40 mm gun

Eventually an anti-aircraft gunnery school on the range at Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast delivered a workable solution, a trapeze-like arrangement that moved the pancake sights to offer lead correction, operated by a new crew-member standing behind the left-hand layer.

Duke of Norfolk

In addition to the title of Duke of Norfolk, the Dukes of Norfolk also hold the hereditary position of Earl Marshal, which has the duty of organizing state occasions such as the state opening of Parliament.

Edward Lovett Pearce

They were to have four daughters who inherited great-grandfather Pearce's manor of Whitlingham by Norwich, Norfolk.

Eric Wilson

Eric C. Wilson, one of the Norfolk Four, a group of men who are believed to be wrongfully convicted in a rape/murder in Norfolk, Virginia

Ernest Seaman

Ernie is commemorated at Tyne Cot Cemetery (Panel No. 70), the memorial to the 36th Division at the Ulster Tower near Thiepval on the Somme, Felixstowe War Memorial (Suffolk), and the Scole War Memorial (Norfolk).

Eurasian Spoonbill

It was extirpated from the United Kingdom but sporadic breeding attempts in the early 21st century culminated with the formation of a colony at Holkham in Norfolk in 2010.

Everybody's Trucking

This episode was mainly shot on location in the Stanford Battle Area in Norfolk, with the exception of the first scene in the church hall yard, which was shot in the studio.

Frederick William Wilson

He was the 2nd son of William Wilson, Manor House, Scarning, Norfolk and Elisa Turner, of Old

Grade I listed buildings in Great Yarmouth

This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.

Guy Pedder

Educated at Repton School and later attending Trinity College, Oxford, Pedder made his debut in minor counties cricket for Norfolk against Cambridgeshire in the 1913 Minor Counties Championship, with him making a further appearance in that season against Glamorgan.

Harry Stileman

He retired in September 1909 and was appointed Captain-Superintendent of the Watts Naval School at Elmham, Norfolk, which was owned by Dr Barnardo's Homes.

Henry Bentinck

Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1863–1931), British MP for Norfolk North-West and Nottingham South, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole

In 1756 he was created Baron Walpole, of Wolterton, this being his Norfolk seat, and he died 5 February 1757.

Ian Whybrow

Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Award and won both the Sheffield Children’s Book Award and the Norfolk Libraries Children’s Book Award.

James Norfolk

In January 1661 James Norfolk was instructed by the House to find the bodies of the regicides John Bradshaw, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride.

James Paget Hospital

The James Paget University Hospital (JPUH) is located at Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, on the A12 Lowestoft Road.

James Shears and Sons

Rebecca Shears (1786-?) was married to James Spurrell (1776-1840) and Hannah Shears (1790-1882) to Charles Spurrell – James and Charles were brothers and members of the Spurrell family of Norfolk; they were also senior employees at the Anchor Brewery, Southwark.

Jean de Monluc

On the same day Norfolk got news of the battle at Restalrig that commenced the siege of Leith.

Jeppe Hein

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned an "artlandish" folly in a scale appropriate for a five-acre walled garden.

Jim Kincaid

Three D-Day veterans from the Norfolk area accompanied Jim to several historic World War II sites, including Weymouth, England, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, the Dachau concentration camp, and Margraten in the Netherlands, site of the largest American cemetery in Europe.

John H. Stracey

There is a Public House in the Village of Briston, Norfolk called the John H Stracey in tribute to the boxer.

John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk

His senior descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk, have been Earls Marshal and Premier Peers of England since the 17th century, and male-line descendants hold the Earldoms of Carlisle, Suffolk, Berkshire and Effingham.

Julius Ruffin and Arthur Lee Whitfield

Whitfield was released by Virginia authorities in August 2004, when a Norfolk prosecutor said DNA evidence proved Whitfield did not commit the two rapes.

Keith Skipper

He was born at Beeston, Norfolk and currently lives in Cromer, He is a champion of the Norfolk dialect, and was a founder of F.O.N.D. (Friends of Norfolk Dialect).

Lothingland Rural District

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and split between the new districts of borough of Great Yarmouth (in Norfolk) and the district of Waveney, in Suffolk.

Miles Stapleton

Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knight of the Garter, of Felbrigg, Norfolk by Margaret, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen Anne of Bohemia.

Norfolk 6/20/05

Norfolk is a live album by Iron & Wine released on April 18, 2009, Record Store Day.

Norfolk Yeomanry

The regiment was raised in 1901 at the express wish of the new King Edward VII, and titled the Norfolk (King′s Own) Imperial Yeomanry with the Royal cypher as their badge.

Northgate Hospital

It is located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and is managed under the James Paget Hospital NHS Trust and the Norfolk & Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Norwich CEYMS F.C.

Norwich CEYMS F.C. (CEYMS being an acroynm for Church of England Young Men's Society) is an English football club based in Swardeston, near Norwich, in Norfolk.

Pamala Stanley

Pamala Stanley (born July 16, 1952) is an American disco, Hi-NRG, club/dance and dance-pop singer from Norfolk, Virginia, United States.

Ralph de Gael

Ralph de Gael (otherwise Ralph de Guader, Radulf Waders or Ralph Wader) (before 1042 – c. 1096) was the Earl of East Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk) and Lord of Gaël and Montfort (Seigneur de Gaël et Montfort).

Richard Mabey

He now lives in the Waveney Valley in Norfolk, with his partner Polly Lavendar, and retreats to a boat on the Norfolk Broads.

River Babingley

This tributary of the river is called the River Cong, flowing through the woods and over an impressive waterfall, where in the past it powered all the machinery within the Congham Oil Mill.

Ronyell Whitaker

Ronyell Deshawn Whitaker was born March 19, 1979 in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Sylvonia Whitaker and the nephew of boxer Pernell 'Sweet Pea' Whitaker.

St Denys' Church, Sleaford

In 1796 a new peal of 8 bells were cast by Thomas Osborn of Downham, Norfolk.

Sylvanus Thayer

During the War of 1812, Thayer directed the fortification and defense of Norfolk, Virginia, and was promoted to major.

Thomas Davis House

Thomas Aspinwall Davis House, Brookline, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

U.S. Route 60

A few miles south of the bridge-tunnel, in Norfolk, US 60 diverges to the east to follow the south shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay through Ocean View and past the south entrance to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to reach Cape Henry.

WHRO

WHRO-TV, a PBS member broadcasting on channel 15 analog/16 digital on terrestrial television services, with offices in Norfolk, VA

William Balmain

(Thomas Jamison, a former colleague of Balmain's on the First Fleet and on Norfolk Island, replaced him as Principal Surgeon of New South Wales.)

World Horse Welfare

Horses needing attention are taken into one of charities four Recovery and Rehabilitation Centres, based in Norfolk, Somerset, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire.