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It was one of Norfolk's first monasteries and the only one in England to survive the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a rural county in the East of England. Knowledge of prehistoric Norfolk is limited by a lack of evidence — although the earliest finds are from the end of the Lower ...
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county of England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the northwest, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south.
East Anglia is an area of Southern England often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, [1] with parts of Essex sometimes also included. East Anglia is both a geographical and cultural term.
Great Yarmouth (/ ˈ j ɑːr m ə θ / YAR-məth), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located 20 miles (32 km) east of Norwich. [3] Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ...
The monument, correctly called the Norfolk Naval Pillar, is in the style of a Doric column topped by six caryatid figures that support a statue of Britannia proudly standing atop a globe inscribed with the motto from Nelson's coat of arms Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat (translates to 'Let him who has merited it take the palm'), she holds an olive ...
Alfred was the youngest son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).
Acle, St. Edmund's Aylsham sign Belaugh Church Blickling Hall Cley Mill Great Yarmouth Town Hall Hopton Beach Hunsett Windmill North Walsham Market Cross Norwich Cathedral Reedham Swing Bridge Repps with Bastwick Sandringham House RAF Trimingham Winterton-on-Sea Wymondham Abbey Yaxham St. Peter