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3 unusual facts about north Norfolk


Greasy pole

Blakeney in North Norfolk also has a horizontal pole over water that is erected each year for the Blakeney regatta.

Melton Constable Railway Works

The works are known by many as the 'Crewe of North Norfolk' as Crewe was similar to Melton Constable, although on a much larger scale.

Witton

Witton, North Norfolk, also in Norfolk but near North Walsham, 19 miles (30 km) north of Norwich


Angie Lewin

Inspired by both the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the Scottish Highlands, Lewin depicts these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage.

Melton Constable railway station

The scheme had been born of a desire amongst North Norfolk landowners, including notably Lord Hastings of Melton Constable Hall, to break the East Anglian monopoly of the Great Eastern Railway and to improve communications between the farming community and the outside world.

Paston Way

The Daily Telegraph printed an article which Scott had written about a visit to the north Norfolk coast.


see also

Alice Walpole

Alice is the daughter of Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole of Mannington Hall, North Norfolk, and his first wife, Judith Chaplin, OBE, MP(née Schofield).

Melton Constable railway station

Both the Lynn & Fakenham and the Yarmouth & North Norfolk lines were built by Messrs Wilkinson & Jarvis of London who had raised the necessary funds through a mixture of bonds, debentures and mortgages, hoping that their speculative investment would pay off when a larger railway company would purchase the line.

No. 100 Group RAF

No. 100 Group was headquartered at Bylaugh Hall, Norfolk from January 1944, a central location from which to administer the group's airfields in north Norfolk.

Railways in Norfolk

The Norfolk Orbital Railway is a proposal to link the Mid-Norfolk Railway and the North Norfolk Railway to create a line running from Sheringham to Wymondham, restoring regular services to Fakenham and Melton Constable.

Roughton

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