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53 unusual facts about Norfolk


2014 Old Dominion Monarchs football team

They will be led by sixth year head coach Bobby Wilder and will play their home games at Foreman Field at S. B. Ballard Stadium in Norfolk, Virginia.

A Glastonbury Romance

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

Albert Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton

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

Alfredo S.G. Taylor

Taylor was the designer of over thirty buildings in Norfolk, Connecticut, in a wide variety of styles, in the four decades before the Second World War.

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.

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.

Boeing KB-29 Superfortress

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

Bylaugh Hall

Bylaugh Hall, also known as Bylaugh Park, is a country house situated in the village of Bylaugh in Norfolk, England.

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.

Commodore Levy Jewish Chapel

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.

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.

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.

Ernest John Moeran

The family moved around for several years as his father was appointed to various parishes but they eventually settled in Bacton, on the coast of Norfolk.

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.

Farmers Guide

The East Anglian Farmers Guide, covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, took a major step by being the first to offer the A4 magazine format on a local basis and to offer farmers free advertising for equipment sold off the farm.

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.

Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield

Born Harbord Morden, Harbord was born at Thorpe, Norfolk, the son of Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet (originally William Morden), by Elizabeth Britiffe, daughter of Robert Britiffe, Recorder of Norwich.

Henry A. Wise

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

Henry Crawford

While Henry temporarily returns to his estate in Norfolk, Maria marries Mr. Rushworth, because she believes that Henry does not love her and she wants to leave her family home because she feels stifled there.

Horstead Hall

Horstead Hall was a country house in Norfolk that was demolished in the 1950s.

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.

Lotus 100T

During the 1988 season, former three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart test drove the 100T at the Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk, England, which was Lotus's test track at the time.

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.

Managing the Details of an Undertaking

Tracks 7 and 8 were recorded at the Norva Theatre in Norfolk, Virginia.

Museum Piece

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

Neoclassical architecture

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

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.

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.

Paula Miller

She ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the special election to fill the seat being vacated by Ralph Northam, who was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, in the Virginia Senate, District 6, representing portions of Norfolk, the Eastern Shore, and Virginia Beach.

Reading Transport

In October 2009, it was discovered that instead of the bio-ethanol fuel having been sourced from sugar beet grown in the English county of Norfolk (as had been advertised), it was actually made from wood pulp imported from Sweden.

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.

Roughton

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

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.

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.

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.

William Brampton Gurdon

Gurdon was the youngest son of Brampton Gurdon (MP for West Norfolk) of Letton, Norfolk and his wife Henrietta Susanna, daughter of the 1st Baron Colborne.

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.

Winnold House

Winnold House, formerly the Benedictine Priory of St. Winwaloe, is a country house near Wereham in Norfolk, England.

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).

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.

Barbastelle

In Britain, only a few breeding roosts are known; Paston Great Barn in Norfolk, parts of Exmoor and the Quantock Hills in Devon and Somerset (see Tarr Steps), the Mottisfont woodland in Hampshire and Ebernoe Common in West Sussex.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Atmore

Atmore was born at Heacham, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, 17 August 1759, his father being the captain of a ship belonging to Lynn.

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.

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'.

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

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.

Flaxman Charles John Spurrell

Some years before his death, he retired to Bessingham Manor House in Norfolk, one of the seats of the Spurrell family, and was no longer active in the archaeological world.

Gresham, Norfolk

The village is also the ancestral home of the famous Norfolk family of Gresham, whose members included Sir John Gresham, founder of Gresham's School, and Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of Gresham College and the Royal Exchange.

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

Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy

He was born in Letheringsett, Norfolk in 1838, the second son of William Hardy Cozens-Hardy and was educated at Amersham School.

Honingham Hall

Honingham Hall was a large country house at Honingham in Norfolk.

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.

Jean de Monluc

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

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.

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.

Mimi Hwang

Later on, she became a founder of Cello Divas and Quartos with which she appeared in such places as Banff, Norfolk, Roycroft, and Skaneateles as well as Aspen Music Festival.

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 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 United F.C.

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

Overy

Burnham Overy, a civil parish on the north coast of Norfolk, England

Owen Honors

John C. Harvey Jr., the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon that Captain Honors was removed for demonstrating poor judgment.

Papilio amynthor

The Norfolk Swallowtail (Papilio amynthor) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family, that is found in New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Norfolk Island.

Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa

A Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa is a type of Australian immigration visa granted on arrival in Australia to a non-citizen who is a permanent resident of Norfolk Island.

River Heacham

Heacham watermill or Caley Mill, as it is also known, looks very different from most other mills in Norfolk, being Gothic revival in architectural style and built of local carr-stone.

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.

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 Abercrombie

There he joined Torpedo Squadron 8 (or VT-8), established at NAS, Norfolk, on 2 September 1941 under the command of Lieutenant Commander John C. Waldron.