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English: The River Stiffkey near Thorpland. James Bell mentions Thorpland in 1835, describing it as a hamlet in the parish of Fakenham - Thorpland is one of 200-odd deserted medieval villages in Norfolk, known to have been "lost" or significantly reduced in size over the centuries.The view was taken in westerly direction, from the bridge that carries Great Snoring Road over the river > 950095.
The River Stiffkey, which has a self-sustaining population of brown trout, rises near Swanton Novers. From there it skirts the village of Fulmodeston > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/208144 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/570027 and Croxton > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/950754 and runs onwards through Great Snoring > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/848625 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/848638 further to the north. From here it flows south, past Thorpland Hall > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/419874 - and later in northwesterly direction through East and North Barsham > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/207917 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/264058 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874622 - Houghton St Giles > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874650 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/481504 and to the town of Little Walsingham, the priory of which was built from stone from Northamptonshire that had been towed up the river in flat-bottomed barges > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/575904 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/339090. In Little Walsingham the River Stiffkey once again changes its course, flowing north past Great Walsingham > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/574930 - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/200842 - through Wighton > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/443068 and Warham > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/442361 before it passes through the village of Stiffkey > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/233442 - and into the North Sea. |
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