Extract from O.S. Map c.1945Courtesy Ray & Maureen Beales The blue arrow on the above extract from a map dated c.1945, shows the position of the ‘Burying Ground Cottages’ in Great Ellingham. However, the cottages were built over a century earlier. Tithe Map The Great Ellingham Tithe Map of 1843 shows a cottage and garden…
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Baptists’ Burying Ground with a Colman Family Connection
Colman Family Connection Helen Caroline Colman writes in her book ‘Jeremiah James Colman: A Memoir’ : “In the little Burial-ground at Great Ellingham, connected with although a mile or so distant from the Baptist Chapel, a stone marks the spot where, away from the high road, amidst fields and guarded by scotch firs, Jeremiah Colman…