The Bell of St. Nicholas' Church, Blakeney, Norfolk
A rare glimpse inside the belfry at St. Nicholas' Church in the coastal village of Blakeney, Norfolk to see the one remaining bell strike noon.
Explore | ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH (Plus Bridges) | Crawley
How an hours walk turned into my 1st Travel Blog for YouTube!
Walking the Worth Way in Crawley, stumbling across two bridges and the 11th Oldest Church in England!
Climbing Blakeney Church Tower Norfolk England UK
May 2017
Historic Churches of SE Norfolk
Norfolk is remarkable for its medieval churches and for the number of interior features that survived the Reformation. This study looks at the art & architecture of seven historic churches in the south east of Norfolk: Hellington, St. John the Baptist; Heckingham, St. Gregory; Hales, St. Margaret; Moulton, St. Mary; Buckenham, St. Nicholas; Frenze, St. Andrew; Shimpling, St. George.
Places to see in ( Blakeney - UK )
Places to see in ( Blakeney - UK )
Blakeney is a coastal village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Blakeney lies within the Norfolk Coast AONB and the North Norfolk Heritage Coast. The North Norfolk Coastal Path travels along its quayside. The village is 21.1 miles (34.0 km) north west of Norwich, 4.6 miles (7.4 km) NNW of the larger settlement of Holt, 11.5 miles (18.5 km) west of Cromer and 112 miles (180 km) NNE of London.
The civil parish has an area of 9.9 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 789 in 402 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk. Blakeney was a commercial seaport until the early 20th century. Now the harbour is silted up, and only small boats can make their way out past Blakeney Point to the sea. The harbour and surrounding marshes are owned by the National Trust and is a nature reserve where seals can be seen basking on the sand.
Just inland from the harbour is Mariners Hill. This vantage point is believed to be man-made, probably as a lookout point for the harbour. Adjacent to the hill, at the foot of the village's High Street, is the old Guildhall with a 14th-century undercroft. Higher up the village, the Church of St Nicholas has two towers: the main tower is more than 100 ft (30 m) high and a well-known landmark for miles around; the smaller tower was built as a beacon to guide boats into Blakeney Harbour.
Blakeney Haven was a deeper inlet on the north coast of Norfolk into which the River Glaven flowed. Sheltered behind Blakeney Point, it was a major shipping area in the Middle Ages, with relatively important North Norfolk ports at Wiveton, Cley next the Sea and Blakeney itself. Cley and Wiveton silted up in the 17th century, but Blakeney prospered, especially after the channel to the Haven was deepened in 1817. Packet ships ran from that port to Hull and London from 1840. This trade declined as ships became too large for the harbour, and it is now silted up with access only for small boats.
From the 12th century Blakeney had a reputation for acts of piracy: between 1328 and 1350 it is recorded that men of Blakeney boarded two vessels sailing from Flanders and sailed them back to Blakeney haven, where they were stripped of their cargoes. Many a foreign merchant ship which sought shelter in the haven found its cargo stolen. Such was the lawlessness of the residents that the village refused to supply a ship for the battle against the Spanish Armada.
Blakeney Mill in Friary Park is a Grade II listed building and is chiefly of flint with brick dressings (mostly its upper parts) across its three storeys. It appears on a map of 1769 in this exact location, following earlier mention from the Domesday Book of mills in the village. In the 19th century a rail branch line from Holt to a new station at Blakeney was planned, but the scheme was never completed. It would have connected the town to the wider Norfolk rail network.
Blakeney is a popular tourist resort during the summer months. The village has two large hotels, one in a historic building, and one with a modern main part but with also with a late 17th-century and 18th-century barn annexe, The Blakeney Hotel as well as having the alternative at the end of the Quay Road of the 15-acre (61,000 m2) caravan site. Blakeney offers a large range of activities including crabbing, fishing, canoeing and birdwatching. In the area of marshland around Blakeney Point, owned by the National Trust, up to a hundred species of birds can be found throughout the year. Several pubs in the area serve food and real ale.
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Bell at St Nicholas Church
A new bell has been installed at St Nicholas' Church, Gt Wilbraham near Cambridge.
Tickling the ivories at St. Nicholas in Blakeney
Piano playing at the Church of St. Nicholas at Blakeney in Norfolk, England.
Tickencote Church
Tickencote Church
Recorded March 15th, 2017
Churches and cathedrals, Norfolk, UK
Norfolk enjoys the richest church heritage in the UK, with a stunning Norman cathedral, ruined abbeys, countryside wool churches and the most round tower churches in the UK. In total there are over 650... try to find a horizon without a spire...
Places to see in ( Wells next the Sea - UK )
Places to see in ( Wells next the Sea - UK )
Wells-next-the-Sea is a port on the North Norfolk coast of England. The civil parish has an area of 16.31 km². Wells next the Sea is 15 miles (24 km) to the east of the resort of Hunstanton, 20 miles (32 km) to the west of Cromer, and 10 miles (16 km) north of Fakenham. The city of Norwich lies 32 miles (51 km) to the south-east. Nearby villages include Blakeney, Burnham Market, Burnham Thorpe, Holkham and Walsingham.
Wells next the Sea has long thrived as a seaport and is now also a seaside resort with a popular beach that can be reached on foot or by a narrow gauge railway that runs partway alongside the mile-long sea wall north of the harbour. The beach is known for its long flat terrain, abstract sand dunes, varied unique beach huts and a naturist area situated to the west at Holkham. A land-locked brackish pool called Abraham's Bosom is used for pleasure boating and canoeing. The beach is backed by dense pine woods which are part of the Holkham National Nature Reserve.
Wells next the Sea stretches nearly a mile inland. The majority of shops and other such businesses are now found on Staithe Street but up to the 1960s commercial premises were also to be found along High Street which continues south towards St Nicholas's Church.
A feature of Wells next the Sea is the area known as The Buttlands, a large green ringed by lime trees. Large elegant Georgian houses overlook The Buttlands, as do the Crown Hotel, Globe Inn and the Wells Catholic Church. If you exit The Buttlands down the hill at its south-west corner you can see Ware Hall, which was rebuilt over a period of years from the 1970s by Miss May Savidge, who brought it in parts when she moved from Ware in Hertfordshire.
Formerly the town was served by Wells-on-Sea railway station and was connected to the British Rail network by two lines. The line westwards towards King's Lynn was never reinstated after damage in the 1953 East Coast Floods, while the line to Norwich via Fakenham, Dereham and Wymondham was a victim of the Beeching Axe of the 1960s.
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Norwich's medieval flint churches are celebrated with 'Flintspiration' festival
The first ever 'Flintspiration' ran over the long weekend - with historic churches remaining open to share their treasures with visitors.
Some still hold services but many have of course been converted to other uses - including offices, studios and even a puppet theatre.
But, as Mark Summers reports, that hasn't stopped them all revealing tantalising hints from Norwich's medieval past
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Blakeney, Norfolk Trip 2015
Our weekend away to Blakeney, Norfolk.
Cambridgeshire Wisbech - Terrington St John (2017) DJI MAVIC 4K 30 FPS
My Trip to Blakeney in Norfolk!
Short video of my trip away to Blakeney in Norfolk in the South East of England.
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A drive through Blakeney North Norfolk
NEXTBASE 212 Dashcam footage
Morris family home movies.
8mm Cine Home Movies 1960/1968.
Property of North Walsham & District Community Archive courtesy of Robert & Mark Morris.
INDEX:
[Early 1960s]
00:00 Blakeney
00:25 Jack & Elsie Wright
00:38 Holt
01:49 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham
02:11 St Nicholas Church Fundraiser (for what?)
02:27 North Walsham Market Place
02:35 Two local lads cycling Buxton Road (Clive & Eddie?)
[1968]
02:54 Great Yarmouth
03:27 St Nicholas Church, North Walsham
05:04 Cromer Church
05:14 Bacton Gas Site being built
05:37 Stow Mill, Paston
06:04 Cromer Pier
06:25 Local man (who?)
06:33 North Walsham Market Place
06:50 North Walsham Memorial Garden
07:07 Clive or Eddie? at Hill House, Happisburgh
07:39 Lads, including Roger
07:51 Cromer or Sheringham?
08:01 Lads
08:32 Local Ladies (who?) and lads at Wroxham
09:40 Westwick
10:47 Broads - Wroxham/Horning
13:21 Elsie Wright at Buxton Road
13:31 Norwich, including Castle Museum
15:04 Westwick Arch
15:18 Mundesley, including The Royal & Beach
16:00 Great Yarmouth (town centre, Fun fair & Harbour)
17:20 Roger Morris painting the shed (location unknown)
17:37 At Manor Road (opposite school)
17:49 Vicarage Street
18:37 Felmingham Church
19:07 Jack Wright at Buxton Road
20:00 Bacton gas Site, beach & unknown lady
St Nicholas, Blakeney
00:00:00 Introduction : St Nicholas, Blakeney
00:02:06 Part 1: History
00:02:06 Chapter 1: Foundation to fifteen 47
00:06:16 Chapter 2: Reformation and after
00:10:32 Part 2: Description
00:14:24 Part 3: Furnishings and fixtures
00:19:45 Part 4: Memorials
00:21:59 Part 5: Medieval graffiti
00:23:35 Part 6: People
00:25:06 Part 7: Services and congregation
00:26:42 Part 8: Cited texts
00:26:51 Postscript : Information about this video and recording.
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00:00:00 Wenzel Thomas Matiegka: Quartet For Flute, Guitar, Viola & Cello - I. Moderato (European Archive)
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Ep08: The Derelict Bells of St Martin, Hindringham
In this episode I take a rare glimpse of the now sadly derelict bells hidden up in the tower of St. Martin's Church, Hindringham.
What historic wonders will we see on the way up and will the bells of St. Martin ever ring out again?
How one man has rung bells at Norfolk’s churches for 70 years
He has dedicated 70 years of his life to ringing bells across hundreds of Britain’s churches and now Peter Woodcock has been honoured for his decades of service with a special bell-ringing marathon.
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Weekday Getaway Vlogging My The Quay Blakeney Norfolk Experience (English Countryside)
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Stayed at Blakeney Hotel which is a north Norfolk hotel with its quayside location it has magnificent views across the estuary and salt marshes to Blakeney Point.
Blakeney Hotel,
The Quay, Blakeney,
Nr. Holt, Norfolk NR25 7NE
Tel: +44 (0)1263 740797