The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford and Cromer Road: Sport and history on an East Anglian turnpikeHarper, Charles G. (Charles George)
History
The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford and Cromer Road: Sport and history on an East Anglian turnpike
Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs
duel was fought is some four miles from Blickling. Cawston Heath has
long been enclosed and brought under cultivation, but the place is
marked by a rude stone pillar surmounted by an urn and simply inscribed
with the letters “H.H.” This monument stands within a dense strip of
plantation beside the Norwich and Holt road, close to where it is
crossed by the road between Aylsham and Cawston. Adjoining the place is
an old coaching hostelry—the “Woodrow” inn—with a curious gallows sign
spanning the highway
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FROM Aylsham to Cromer is little more than ten miles; downhill from
Aylsham town to the levels at Ingworth, whose name, meaning the “meadow
village,” illustrates that it is, in fact, set down beside the
water-meads bordering the river Bure. Ingworth has a dilapidated church
picturesquely overlooking the road from a little hillock, with only the
lower part of its round tower left.
Erpingham church is presently seen, away to the left, standing lonely in
the ploughlands, without any village, and on the right hand an avenue
leads to Lord Suffield’s place, Gunton Park. Hanworth is out of sight,
but the toll-house at Hanworth Corner, now converted into a post office,
argues its near neighbourhood. To this succeeds Roughton, where a pond,
a scrubby piece of common, another round-towered church, and a
comfortable homely inn comprise the salient features of the place.
[Illustration: INGWORTH.]
The last miles into Cromer from Roughton wear a wind-swept appearance.
The hedgerow trees that have hitherto stood boldly erect now begin to
cower and grow in contorted shapes, all with one general inclination
away from the prevalent easterly gales of winter and bitter spring. The
physical aspect of the country also changes. From the long levels and
the gentle undulations we come to the exposed table-land of Roughton
Common, the gorse and bracken-grown land around Crossdale Street, and
the gravelly tumbled ups and downs of Felbrigg. We seem to have
exchanged the suavities of Norfolk for the bold and picturesque
ruggedness of the Scottish littoral.
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