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English: To Aylsham on the Marriott's Way. The flowers of the red campion > 1282488 form a pleasant contrast to the green grass and the white flowers of the cow parsley. Red campion (Silene dioica) can be found growing abundant on rich soils at the edges of woods or in hedgerows. Its name is derived from Silenus, the god of the woodlands in Greek mythology and the second part of its scientific name, dioica, means 'two houses', and refers to the fact that each Red Campion plant has flowers of one sex only, so that two plants are needed to make seed. Female flowers have no stamens, while male flowers have only a small, non-functioning ovary.
This section of the Marriott's Way leads from Chapel Street - by the former goods yard > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1316971 at Cawston railway station > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1316999 - to the hamlet of Southgate > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1317281 further to the northeast and onwards to Aylsham > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1290699. What now forms part of the Marriott's Way once used to be a railway line which ran from County School via Themelthorpe > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/895499 to Aylsham > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/761149 and Wroxham - built by the Great Eastern Railway and completed in 1883, and from Themelthorpe to Norwich > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/760082 - built in 1882 by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GN). The so-called Themelthorpe Curve was added later in order to link the two stretches of railway - opened in 1960, this section was the final section of railway track built in Norfolk by British Rail. The line was not profitable and closed in 1985. The dismantled railway trackbed is now a long-distance footpath, named after William Marriott, the chief engineer and manager of the M&GN railway system for 41 years. He was based and lived in the village of Melton Constable > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/953137 the then main depot of the M&GN railway. http://www.countrysideaccess.norfolk.gov.uk/walk-35e.asp?id=35 |
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