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Beeston Hill, also known as Beeston Bump, [16] is a cliff-top hill which overlooks the sea and the village. At 207 feet (63m) high, it is the dominating feature of the parish. The hill, part of Cromer Ridge, [17] was once two symmetrical round flat-topped hills in the shape of giant molehills: geological features known as kames. [17]
Beeston Hill Y Station was a secret listening station located on the summit of Beeston Hill, Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk. [1] The chain of Y stations were the front line of the War Office's Bletchley Park , which had the code name station X .
It may also be known as Beeston All Saints or Beeston-next-Mileham to distinguish it from the three other villages in Norfolk named Beeston. Sir William Calthorpe made presentations to the rectory of Beeston in 1460, 1481 and 1492. [1] Keith Skipper, Eastern Daily Press journalist and champion of the Norfolk dialect, was born in the village. [2]
Sheringham and Beeston Regis Commons is a 24.9-hectare (62-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Sheringham in Norfolk, England. [1] [2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site [1] and part of the Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation [3] and Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [4]
Map of the hundreds of Norfolk. Between the 10th and the 19th centuries the hundreds of Norfolk and the boroughs of Norwich, King's Lynn, Thetford and Great Yarmouth were the administrative units of the English county of Norfolk. Each hundred had a separate council that met each month to rule on local judicial and taxation matters.
Beeston Hill may refer to the following places: Beeston Hill, Leeds, an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England; Beeston Hill, U.S. Virgin Islands, a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands; Beeston Hill Y Station, a former secret listening station in Norfolk, England
Map: Citation: This site has till dating to the Quaternary period, unsorted glacial sediments, with a depth of up to five metres. It is separated from the main East Anglian till sheet, and it is the type site for the Bawsey Calcareous Till. [33] Beeston Cliffs: 10.3 hectares (25 acres) [34] YES Sheringham
Beeston, Bedfordshire, a hamlet; Beeston, Cheshire, a village and civil parish Beeston Castle; Beeston Castle and Tarporley railway station; Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, a suburb of Leeds. Beeston railway station (West Yorkshire) Beeston, Norfolk, a village; Beeston Regis; Beeston St Andrew; Beeston St Lawrence, a former parish which is now ...