Places to see in ( Fakenham - UK )
Places to see in ( Fakenham - UK )
Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. Fakenham is situated on the River Wensum, about 19 miles north east of King's Lynn, 19 miles south west of Cromer, and 25 miles north west of Norwich.
In 1086 (Domesday Book) Fakenham had only 150 residents. Hempton, on the opposite side of the river, was the larger community and had an abbey that played host to pilgrims on their way to Walsingham. Fakenham became the dominant centre when the abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII. It has been a market town since 1250, when it was given a charter. The stalls probably occupied space around the parish church of St. Peter & St. Paul. Fakenham's modern-day Thursday market is still situated very close to its original positioning and around the market place.
Fakenham is now the home of Kinnertons Chocolate employing some 700 people. Established in 1978, Kinnerton Confectionery is now Britain's largest manufacturer of chocolate and novelty confectionery specialising in character licensing. Historically, Fakenham had two railway stations. Fakenham West railway station was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, and closed in 1959. The site is now a builders' depot, although 7 yards of the platform has been preserved. Fakenham East railway station was on the Great Eastern Railway and closed in the 1960s although goods trains carried on until the 1980s. This railway station site is now sheltered housing.
Attractions in the town include Fakenham Racecourse and the Museum of Gas and Local History. The Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History is the only surviving town gasworks in England and Wales, complete with all equipment used for the manufacture of gas from coal: retorts, condenser, purifiers, meter and gasholder.
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THE GHOSTS OF DUNWICH
Setting myself a personal challenge, I drove up to Dunwich, the `Atlantis of England` to film and investigate in a day and evening two major historic locations of medieval sites.
Blickling Hall
Blickling Hall is somewhere we have been trying to get to for weeks. It was their Christmas weekend and at £14.95 to get in we were expecting something special. Here is our honest review of the place in all its festive glory.
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Time & Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth
Time & Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth is one of the best in Norfolk. This was my second visit here, this time with Mazzy. Let us show you around as we had just one hour until it closed.
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Exploring the Norfolk Village
Author Christopher Barringer introduces his book 'Exploring the Norfolk Village' which not only deals with the specific history of the villages it features but also provides an excellent introduction for anyone wishing to study their own settlement.
Castle Acre Priory
Summer 2007, Castle Acre Priory, East Anglia, England. About 40 minutes drive from me.
One of the largest and best preserved monastic sites in England, the foundation of Castle Acre Priory in about 1090 sprang directly from a visit by William de Warenne II and his wife Gundrada to the great French monastery of Cluny. So impressed were they by its beauty and holiness that they vowed to introduce the Cluniac order of monks to England.
The Cluniac love of decoration is everywhere reflected in the extensive ruins of Castle Acre Priory, whose great 12th-century church directly imitated that of Cluny itself. Its beautiful west end, standing almost to its full height, displays tiered ranks of intersecting round arches: it forms an attractive group with the late medieval porch, part timber-framed and part flintchequered, and the extremely well-preserved prior's lodging. A mansion in itself, this includes a first-floor chapel retaining traces of wall-paintings, and a private chamber with two fine oriel windows.
There is much more to see at the priory, including the substantial remains of many of the buildings round the cloister. The recreated herb garden next to the visitor centre grows herbs which the monks would have used for medicinal, culinary and decorative purposes.
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HAUNTED HOUGHTON HOUSE
Following our same day visit to the De Grey Mausoleum, we travelled a further few more miles to visit and investigate briefly the ruins of Houghton Hall.
For although we were only onsite a short period as the site shuts at dusk, we managed to capture some interesting EVP`s.
The house was built in approximately 1615 for the writer, translator, and literary patron Mary Sidney Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke (born 27 October 1561) but she died of smallpox on 25 September 1621, not long after its completion. A Jacobean style frieze on the western side of the house incorporated devices from Mary's ancestral Sidney and Dudley families.
After the Countess' death, the house passed to Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin in 1624. The Bruce family owned the house until the 2nd Earl of Ailesbury, a strong supporter of the Stuarts, retired to exile overseas in 1696 on account of his loyalty to King James II of England.
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury never returned to Houghton and so sold the house to John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford in 1738. The 4th Duke was predeceased by his sons (the 4th Duke's son and heir, Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock died when he fell from a horse whilst hunting) and therefore the house and the dukedom passed to his grandson, Francis Russell.
In 1794, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford stripped Houghton House of its furnishings and removed the roof. This may have been due, in part, to his father's horseriding tragedy. The Duke never married nor had he produced a legitimate heir. He died in 1802 by which time the house, now open to the elements, was already in decay.
It is said that the house was the model for House Beautiful in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Its staircase survives in The Swan Hotel in Bedford.
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HAUNTED SANCTUM OF THE ANCIENT SAXONS
Today I visit the world`s oldest wooden church and Europe`s oldest palisaded building, the church of St Andrews at Greenstead, Chipping Ongar, Essex.
The church was found to be quite active on a brief paranormal investigation which was shot on a night cam inside as it was so dark.
Essex Most Haunted building
600 years of history, over 8 active hauntings!! Join us for a weekend you will never forget