The Snape was a railway branch line located in Suffolk which served Snape Maltings.
It also had an involvement in the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, when Catherine Parr and her step-children were held captive at the castle.
The discovery of the commercial viability of this process (by a Saxmundham bone merchant, Edward Packard) led to what has been dubbed "the Suffolk Gold Rush", and local fortunes were made (Packard established what was to become the fertiliser company Fisons, now part of AstraZeneca).
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Sugar beet was also an important product; it was first grown commercially in and exported to the Netherlands from Snape.
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Living in Spring Garden Lane, near Gosport railway station, Snape was associated with the Gosport area all his life.
During the 1992 General Election campaign, Conservative MP Edwina Currie poured a glass of orange juice over Snape shortly after an edition of the Midlands-based debate show Central Weekend had finished airing.