Archive for the tag 'Norfolk'

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 14th 2023

Only Luton left to explore…

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2023

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 8th 2023

Trunch Parish Church is the Grade I listed[4] 14th-century church of St Botolph.[5] The church is famous for its carved and painted wood font canopy featuring lower panels with paintings of the twelve Apostles, a cornice including a Latin inscription, and above six arches filled with tracery.[6] Only four such canopies still exist in England.[citation needed] St [...]

2 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2023

The spireless parish church of Trimingham is called St John the Baptist’s Head. This strange dedication to John the Baptist’s head dates from the medieval period. During this time a life size alabaster head of the saint was kept at the church and pilgrims in this country came to the church to the shrine altar, [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 2nd 2023

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
Paramahansa Yogananda

4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 1st 2023

The town has given its name to the Cromerian Stage or Cromerian Complex, also called the Cromerian, a stage in the Pleistocene glacial history of north-western Europe.
Cromer is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The place-name ‘Cromer’ is first found in a will of 1262[7] and could mean ‘Crows’ mere or lake’.[8] There are other contenders for the derivation, [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 27th 2023

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