INDEX

Aethelstan 73, 78, 81, 84

Agricultural Revolution 31, 37, 131–2, 171

airfields 184, 187, 194–5, 199–201, 203–4

Alfred the Great 81, 84

Anne I 122–3, 143

Anglo-Saxons 13, 67–80, 86, 88–9, 93–4, 96–7, 103, 106, 113

archaeology 9, 13–14, 21, 27, 29–30, 37, 39, 43, 46, 52, 67–71, 82, 214–15

Ashill 51, 53

Aylsham 62, 119, 130, 147, 152, 173, 177

Baltic 97, 100, 102–3, 111, 139, 146

Barnard, Bishop and Barnards 170, 182

Bawsey 43, 45

Beakers 39, 40

Bedingfield, Sir Henry 137

Billingford 53, 60

Bishop’s Lynn 94, 126

Black Death 105, 114–15, 118

Blakeney 98, 102, 135, 139, 146, 177, 217

Blakeney Haven 102, 117

Blickling Hall 124, 130–1, 216

Boardman, Edward 167, 182

Boudica 49–54, 134, 189

Boulton and Paul 170, 191, 195

Brampton 57, 61

Brancaster 44, 49, 63, 216

Breckland 17, 19, 35, 40, 42, 51, 53, 75, 91–2, 113–15, 129, 150, 187, 190, 207

brewing 145, 154, 170, 197

brickmaking 130–1

Broadland 25, 100–101, 120, 131, 175, 177, 190, 199, 210–11, 213, 216

Bromholme 97, 99, 128

Bronze Age 13, 34, 37, 40–1, 44

Buckenham 91, 95, 200

Burgh Castle 49, 54, 63, 75, 89, 216

Burston School 192–3

Caen stone 93, 102

Caister-on-Sea 63, 113, 119

Caister Castle 112–13, 119

Caistor St Edmund 49, 53, 55, 59–60, 70–1, 79, 216

Cambridge 12, 58, 206, 210

Camulodunum see Colchester

canals 155, 176

Canterbury 86, 91, 196

Carrow 97–8, 125

carrstone 17, 19

Castle Acre 92, 95, 97, 99, 216

Castle Rising 91, 95, 216

cathedral 75, 89, 96–8, 125, 167

chalk reef 17–18

Charles I 123, 135

Charles II 123, 137–8, 140

Charles Burrell and Sons 171, 173, 191

Christianity 61, 64, 71, 74–6, 81–2, 84, 96, 141, 164

Civil War 113, 135–7, 139

claylands 17, 42, 151

Cley 102, 139, 146–7, 177, 216

cloth making 102, 110–11, 115–16

coastal erosion 15, 26–7, 132, 215

Coke, Thomas 149, 152–3

Colchester 51, 55, 65, 89 see also Camulodunum

Cold War 203–4

Colmans 169, 185–6, 207

common land 130–1, 133

Cromer 17–18, 26, 30, 33, 102, 130, 155–6, 168, 177–8, 192, 211, 217; Forest Bed 18, 25; ridge 33, 62

Cromwell, Oliver 128, 136–7

crop rotation 99, 132, 149

Crownthorpe 52, 56, 59

Danelaw 81–2

Defoe, Daniel 146–7

Denmark 15, 68

Denver 55, 57, 59

desertion of villages 115, 132

Dickens, Charles 165, 181

Dissolution 121, 124, 127–8

Doggerland 29, 32–4

Domesday Book 74, 87, 89, 92–3, 96, 100, 102

East Dereham 76, 147, 175, 192

Eccles-on-Sea 129, 132

Edmund, King 80–3

education 164–6, 203

Edwards, George 173–4

Eighth Air Force 199–201, 208

Elizabeth I 123–5, 127–8, 133, 135, 139

Elveden 179, 187

enclosure 43, 130–1, 133, 150

Eorpwald, King 75

Fakenham 147, 155, 213

Falaise 91, 201

Fastolf, Sir John 112, 119, 130

Felbrigg Hall 130, 151–3, 216

fen-edge 55, 57

Fenland 10, 16–17, 35, 40, 42–3, 54–5, 57, 60, 62, 94, 114, 118, 132, 150–1, 159, 169, 173, 176

field monuments 35, 37–40

First World War 174, 176, 181, 185–9, 191, 194–5

fishing 15–16, 32–3, 61, 72–4, 93–4, 117, 146, 168–9, 186, 210

Flegg 32, 81, 101

flint 13, 19, 27–8, 33, 35–6, 40, 63, 105, 111

France 34, 44, 70, 78, 92, 104, 109, 112, 119, 123, 134, 138, 141, 146, 153, 156–7, 181, 187, 201

Free Herring Fair 116–17, 146

Germany 61, 68, 97, 103, 193, 201

Glaven ports 102, 117, 139

Gorleston 107, 169

Gorleston Psalter 107

grand houses 129–31, 151–2, 172, 216

Grand Tour 152–3

Great Estuary 36, 42, 54, 58, 62–4, 66, 73, 101

Great Walsingham 53, 56, 59, 97–8, 128

Great Yarmouth 26, 32, 36, 42, 49, 54, 62, 72–4, 81, 89, 92–4, 96, 98, 100–2, 104–7, 111–12, 116, 118, 126–7, 129, 135–40, 146, 149–50, 154–6, 166, 168, 176–7, 180–1, 185–7, 191, 195–7, 204–5, 208–11, 213, 215–16

Gresham 110, 113

Gresham’s School 128, 147

Grimes Graves 36, 216

Guilds 102, 116

Haggard, Henry Rider 179, 181

Hanseatic League 103–4, 196

Happisburgh 25–7, 29, 54, 192, 196

Heacham 54, 62–3, 141

henge 37–8

Henry I 90–1, 104

Henry II 103–4

Henry IV 110, 119

Henry V 112, 119

Henry VIII 122, 124, 127–30, 134

Herbert de Losinga 94, 96–7, 113

herring 73, 94, 102, 104, 111, 116, 126, 168

hillfort 43–4

Holkham 43–4, 216

Holkham Hall 149, 151–3, 161, 172, 216

Holme-next-the-Sea 38, 54, 59, 216

Holt 74, 112, 128, 147, 216

Homo antecessor 26, 29

Homo heidelbergensis 27, 29

Homo neanderthalis 28–9

Homo sapiens 23, 28–9

Houghton Hall 151–3, 161, 172, 216

Hoxne Treasure 64–5

Hunstanton 62, 178, 210–11, 216

hunter-gatherers 30–1, 33–5

Ice Age 24, 29–31, 33

Iceni 42, 45–6, 49–51, 56, 71

Icknield Way 17, 40, 45, 63

Industrial Revolution 20, 144, 153, 157, 169, 171

Iron Age 13, 41–7, 49–50, 55–7, 59, 89

James I 122, 127, 135

Jewish community 87–9, 93–4

John I 91, 93–4, 103

Julian of Norwich 120–1, 212

Kelling Heath 33, 195

Ken Hill 44–5, 59 see also Snettisham

Kett, Robert 133–4, 189

King’s Lynn 45, 62, 90–1, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102–4, 111–12, 114, 127, 132, 135–6, 139–40, 146, 154–6, 169, 171–2, 176, 180, 186–7, 191, 195, 204, 207, 209–10, 213, 216 see also Bishop’s Lynn

Kingdom of East Anglia 69–70, 82

Lincoln 65, 73

Lothingland 32, 54, 101

Low Countries 34, 74, 92, 111, 115, 132, 139, 149

Lowestoft 105, 136, 155

Lynford 27–8

Macclesfield Psalter 107–8

mammoth 18, 25, 28

Manship, Henry 142

Marham 45, 200, 217

Marham 204, 217

Mary I 128, 135

medieval 9, 74, 84–121, 124, 138, 145, 148, 176, 197, 210

Mercia 69, 77

Mesolithic 32–4

Mileham 91, 100

Miller, Phillipa 194, 198

monastery 71, 75–6, 93, 97, 114, 127

motte and bailey 89–91

Mousehold Heath 118, 133, 167, 182

Nar Valley 62, 98

Nelson, Horatio 146, 157–8

Neolithic 34–6, 39–40, 55

Netherlands 78, 138, 141, 146–7, 156,188, 201, 217

Normandy 89, 91, 102

Normans 9, 72, 75, 86–108, 114

North Elmham 57, 75, 93, 96, 113

North Walsham 119, 147, 176, 185

Norway 139, 146

Norwich

Bridewell 111; Castle 87, 89–93, 102, 134, 136, 159–60, 165, 167, 170, 182; Castle Museum 121, 140, 182, 188, 198, 216; Cathedral 92–3, 96, 102, 107, 119, 121, 167, 188; City Football Club 142, 180, 213 Dragon Hall 111, 116; International Airport 201, 206; School of Artists 161–2, 209, 216; Strangers Hall 111; walls 104–5, 136

offshore industry 206, 208,–10, 215

Opie, Amelia 160–1

Oxborough Hall 113, 137, 216

Oxnead Hall 140, 152

Paine, Thomas 156–7, 160

parkland 9, 101, 151, 172, 191

Paston, John 110, 112

Paston Letters 109–10, 112–13

peat 17, 30, 102–3

Peddars Way 59, 92

pilgrimage 98–9, 128

Prasutagus 50–1

railway 11, 21, 164, 166–9, 174, 176, 178, 190, 192, 206, 211

Reedham 49, 63, 75

Reepham 97, 107, 147

Reformation 108, 122, 128, 142

Repton, Humphrey 149, 152

Rhineland 64, 78, 168

Rivers

Babingley 95; Blackwater 53; Bure 54, 76, 177; Ingol 57; Little Ouse 10, 45; Nar 92, 95, 98; Ouse 94, 146; Tas 35, 43, 55, 60, 81; Thet 42, 45; Waveney 10, 43, 54, 101, 136; Wensum 35, 102, 111, 145; Wissey 28; Yare 35, 54, 74, 101, 126, 136, 161, 177

Roman 15, 17, 32, 42, 45–66, 70, 75, 77, 87, 89, 152

rood screen 118, 120, 128, 142

round-towered church 97, 216

Royal Air Force 195, 200, 204, 208, 217

Royal Flying Corps 187

Royal Norfolk Regiment 138, 179, 197, 201, 205 see also 9th foot

Russia 16, 20, 104, 146, 180, 193, 203

Saham Toney 43, 45, 51, 53

Sandringham 172, 182, 188, 211, 216

Saxons 66, 68, 87

Saxon Shore 49, 63

Scandinavia 16, 19, 68, 73–4, 81, 92, 100, 184

Scole 53, 58, 61

Seahenge 38, 216

Second World War 111, 177, 193–203, 212

Shakespeare, William 112, 119

shawls 139, 145

Sheringham 128, 177—8, 181, 186, 197–8, 211, 215

Sheringham Park 17, 152

shoe manufacture 170, 186

Skipper, George 167–8

Snettisham 44–5, 51, 57, 59, 62,158 see also Ken Hill

Spain 123, 134–5, 139, 156

Spong Hill 57, 71, 79

Strangers 115–16, 138–9, 141

sugar beet 191, 207

Swaffham 113, 138, 147, 179, 192, 213

Swanton Morley 53, 204

temple 59–60, 89

textile industry 102, 125, 138–9, 145, 154, 167, 170

Thetford 35–6, 42, 44–5, 51, 72–3, 81, 83–4, 89, 92–3, 96–8, 103, 113, 118, 127, 147, 156, 160, 171, 178, 191, 196, 204, 208–10; Castle 43, 89, 93; Forest 28, 191, 207; Gallows Hill 45, 53; Priory 115; Treasure 64; Warren Lodge 115

Thorpe Abbotts 200–1

Townsend, Charles 131

trade tokens 139–40

tramways 176, 190

transportation 159–60

University of East Anglia 22, 209, 212

US Army Air Force see Eighth Air Force

Venta Icenorum 49, 55–60, 62–3, 65 see also Caistor St Edmund

Victoria I 162–3, 166–7, 169, 179, 183

Vikings 72, 75, 80–5, 106

villa 62–3, 65

Walpole, Sir Robert 132, 143, 151, 153, 161

warren 114–15, 191

Wash 10, 17, 44, 59, 64, 94–5, 104, 146, 216–7

Water Newton Treasure 64

watershed 17, 44

Wehha, King 69

Wells-next-the-Sea 139, 152, 158, 176–7, 215–6

West Runton Mammoth 25

Weybourne 25, 97, 135, 137, 156, 177

William d’Albini 91, 95, 97

William I, ‘the Conqueror’ 86–90, 102

William IV, 162–3

windmill 175–6, 216

windpump 175

Wiveton 102, 139

Wolterton 151, 172

Woodforde, Parson James 148–9

wool 55, 78, 84, 99–100, 102, 104, 110–12, 114, 116–17, 127, 133, 138

workhouse 147–8, 161, 174–5

Worstead 116–17

writing 12, 21, 46, 48, 52, 67, 76, 120, 157, 179, 181, 199, 212

Wuffa, King 69, 141

Wymondham 52, 76, 97, 132–3, 147, 170

Yarmouth see Great Yarmouth

York 73, 80, 84, 144, 159, 196

Zeppelins 186–7

9th foot 138, 155–6, 180 see also Royal Norfolk Regiment