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WWII and Deopham Green Airfield

Posted on January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

The straight road across what would have been the airfield between Great Ellingham and Deopham. Photograph taken July 2019 Although I tend to concentrate my blogs on the events and people in the village of Great Ellingham in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it would be remiss of me not to mention Deopham Green Airfield….

The Whittred Family of Long Street

Posted on December 1, 2020November 29, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

A Particular Survey of the Parish of Great Ellingham 1817-1819, reveal that John Whittred was the owner and occupier of a House, Barn, Stable, Yard and Garden, as well as numerous parcels of land in Great Ellingham. I know from an earlier Particulars & Valuation undertaken by the Commissioners for the Great Ellingham Inclosures c.1800,…

Cemetery Farm

Posted on December 1, 2020November 29, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

Appearing in the edition of the Eastern Daily Press of the 7th September, 1948, was the notice of a forthcoming Auction of a ‘very desirable small farm’ in Great Ellingham. ‘The Cemetery Farm’ was said to comprise of a comfortable farmhouse which had two sitting rooms and five bedrooms. It also had a substantial range…

Cromwell & the Destruction of St Andrew’s, Rocklands

Posted on December 1, 2020November 28, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

The remains of the Parish Church of Saint Andrew, Rocklands. Photograph taken December 2019 Norfolk Heritage Explorer describes what remains of St Andrew’s Church, Rocklands as “the ruins of a 14th century church to the southeast of All Saints’ Church”. Ruins of Rockland St Andrew. Photograph taken December 2019 In his Essay Towards A Topographical…

Poplar Farmhouse

Posted on December 1, 2020November 28, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

In the informative booklet, A Little History of Great Ellingham, the authors describe ‘Poplar Farm’ as “an ancient timber framed building purporting to be made from reclaimed ship’s timber”. “This house has a long corridor down one side’”. The booklet also mentions that there is a spring to the rear of the property. British Listed…

Church Path

Posted on November 1, 2020October 25, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

Extract from 1802 Map of Great Ellingham. Original held at Norfolk Record Office. Russell James Colman Plans. Cat. Ref. C/Ca 1/84. With kind permission of NRO An 1802 Map of Great Ellingham reveals four connecting footways weaving their way through various inclosures of land between Long Street and the road leading to the town of…

Robert Barnard of Great Ellingham Hall

Posted on November 1, 2020November 2, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

Around the time of the Act of Parliament for the dividing, allotting and inclosing the commons and waste grounds in Great Ellingham c.1800, Robert Barnard owned several properties as well as some 35 acres of land in the village. However save for 30 acres of land, the properties owned by Robert Barnard were let to…

Fourteen Footways Discontinued by the Commissioners

Posted on November 1, 2020October 25, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

Before the Great Ellingham Inclosure Act of 1799, there were several paths threading their way through the village. No doubt many of these footways were in constant use by the villagers to get from one part of the village to another, or to travel to the adjacent villages or towns. Some of these ancient paths…

Farmhouse later known as White House Farm

Posted on November 1, 2020October 25, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

Before it was ‘put by and discontinued‘ by the Great Ellingham Inclosure Act of 1799, a footway known as Church Path, which began in the centre of the village, concluded at an inclosure called ‘Green Way’, near to what was then (or later to become) Shrugg’s Lane which itself crossed Long Street. Extract from 1802…

Messuage built of the Tenement Howells at Town Green

Posted on November 1, 2020October 30, 2020 by Heather Etteridge

Elizabeth Barnard, Copyhold Tenant At the Manor Court of Buckenham Close Outsoken on the 13th November, 1793, and following the death of her husband, Elizabeth Barnard was admitted as a copyhold tenant of the same Court for her life under the Will of her husband, James Barnard. The Manor Court Books set out the copyhold…

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