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50 unusual facts about Norfolk


1975–76 Utah Stars season

November 21 saw the Stars on the road, losing to the lowly Virginia Squires 106-98 in front of 7,292 fans in Norfolk as Ticky Burden tallied a game-high 34 points.

A Glastonbury Romance

John Crow, a young man from Norfolk who is coming to Glastonbury in the opening scene of the novel.

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.

Anmer Hall

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

Anna Gurney

Gurney, youngest child of Richard Gurney of Keswick Hall, Norwich, Norfolk, who died 16 July 1811, by his second wife Rachel, second daughter of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex, was born on 31 December 1795, and when ten months old was attacked with a paralytic affection which deprived her for ever of the use of her legs.

Avena

"Sowing wild oats" is a phrase used since at least the 16th century; it appears in a 1542 tract by Thomas Beccon, a Protestant clergyman from Norfolk.

Beachcomber 6.5

Hart Brothers Marine was founded in 1970 by Raymond and Dennis Hart, fifth-generation boat builders whose' parents emigrated from Norfolk, bringing the family with them.

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 synagogue

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

Custos Rotulorum of Norfolk

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Norfolk.

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.

Edward Birkbeck

Sir Edward greatly improved the farm buildings, adding, among other things, a watertower in the Italian style that remains a local landmark, cottages and one of the two lodges facing towards Buxton.

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.

Gissing Hall

Gissing Hall is a listed fifteenth century mansion, situated in five acres of woodland and gardens in the village of Gissing in Norfolk, England.

Griffin Brothers

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

Grimston Manor

Grimston Manor was a manor house in Norfolk, England.

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.

Kenneth Cecil Bunch

With the extension of his enlistment on 9 March 1941, Bunch was transferred to the Naval Air Station at Norfolk, Va., on 29 August 1941 where he joined VS-8, of the then-forming Hornet (CV-8) Air Group, soon thereafter.

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.

Matthew Pritchard

On 7 September 2009, Pritchard was attacked with a knife in a supermarket in Toftwood, Norfolk, suffering serious stab wounds to his neck and chest.

Middleton Mount

Middleton Mount, also called Middleton Motte and Middleton Castle, is the remains of a medieval castle situated in the village of Middleton, in Norfolk, England.

Museum Piece

#The exterior of the museum was actually Oxburgh Hall, a National Trust property in Norfolk.

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.

Otto Kanturek

Otto Kanturek (27 July 1897, Vienna – 26 June 1941, Cawston, Norfolk) was an Austrian cameraman, cinematographer and film director.

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.

Paula Miller

She was a Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates 2005–2012, representing the 87th district in the city of Norfolk.

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

Roughton

Roughton, Norfolk, a village and parish in North Norfolk, Norfolk, England

Samson of Tottington

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

Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet

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

Sir Robert Buxton, 1st Baronet

Buxton was born at Rushford, Norfolk, the son of John Buxton and his wife Elizabeth Jacob and grandson of John Buxton who designed and built Shadwell Lodge at Rushford.

Sokolsky horse

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

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 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 R. Turner II

Selected to attend the Royal College of Defense Studies in London, England, he served a one-year tour as a British Defense college Fellow and was subsequently named the Executive Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, United States Atlantic Command, and Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, in Norfolk, Virginia.

Thomas Ragland

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

Thorp Perrow Arboretum

This is comparable to Bedale, as the Stapletons there held Ingham, 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.

WUSH

The station also carried the syndicated morning show, "The Playhouse", which is based out of Portland, Oregon (the reasoning behind this was most likely that the show's host (PK)'s hometown was Norfolk).


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.

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.

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.

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.

Bonaventure Giffard

Henry Howard, brother to the Duke of Norfolk, was accordingly created bishop of Utica, in partibus, and nominated to the coadjutorship, cum jure successionis, on 2 October 1720, but he died before the end of the year, and in March 1720–1 the propaganda appointed Benjamin Petre coadjutor in his stead.

Carmen Anderson

Carmen Anderson is a Norfolk Islander lawn bowls player, who won Norfolk Island's first and only medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, when she won a bronze medal.

Carole Walker

She attended North Walsham Girls' High School in Norfolk, attached to the all-male Paston College, attended by Admiral Horatio Nelson, Stephen Fry and Craig Murray.

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

Dinsdale Landen

Dinsdale Landen died at his home in South Creake, Norfolk on 29 December 2003 after becoming ill with pneumonia.

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.

East Lexham

Nikolaus Pevsner, in his book North-west and South Norfolk but the church as probably Anglo-Saxon.

Edward Lovett Pearce

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

Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of Norfolk

However in 1527 Norfolk took a mistress, Bess Holland, the daughter of his steward, with whom he lived openly at Kenninghall, and whom the Duchess described variously in her letters as a bawd, a drab, and 'a churl's daughter', 'which was but washer of my nursery eight years'.

Frederick William Wilson

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

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

HMS Norfolk

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Norfolk, after the Duke of Norfolk or the county of Norfolk.

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 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.

John H. Stracey

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

Joseph Henry Woodger

Woodger was born at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and studied at University College London from 1911 until 1922, except for a period serving in the First World War.

Light Dragoons

Currently based in Robertson Barracks Swanton Morley, Norfolk (formerly RAF Swanton Morley), they are commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Sam Plant MBE.

Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is an English electronic music producer from Norwich, Norfolk, with releases on Output Recordings, Trash Aesthetics and James Holden's Border Community label.

Norfolk 6/20/05

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

Norfolk Biffin

The estate records for Mannington, Norfolk, dating from 1698, of Robert Walpole (later the first Prime Minister of Great Britain) mention Norfolk Biffin apples which Walpole had sent up to his house in London.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Captain William Kiestler, commanding officer of Norfolk Naval Shipyard was relieved of duty on July 1, 2010 by order of Vice Admiral Kevin M. McCoy, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, after a year on the job because of a loss of confidence in his ability to command.

Norfuk dialect

Alice Buffett, a Norfolk Island parliamentarian and Australian-trained linguist, developed a codified grammar and orthography for the language in the 1980s, assisted by Dr Donald Laycock, an Australian National University academic.

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.

Norwich United F.C.

They won the Norfolk Junior Cup in 1979 after beating Bradenham Wanderers 5–2, and again in 1981, beating Wroxham reserves.

Oxborough Dirk

It was found in 1988 protruding from a peat bog near Oxborough, Norfolk, where it had been deposited point down.

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.

Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth

The Royal Hotel is a grade II listed building which is in the English seaside resort town of Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom.

Scheduled monument

Wymondham Abbey in Norfolk is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, a Grade I Listed Building, and lies in Wymondham Conservation Area.

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.

Uncial 076

The manuscript once belonged to Lord Amherst in Norfolk.

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.)

Witton

Postwick with Witton, in the county of Norfolk and 5 miles (8 km) east of Norwich, in Broadland district

World Horse Welfare

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