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Published: March 6th 2023
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Our last day in Norfolk! We started our trip on the southern end of the journey so the weather would have a chance to warm up some before we go too far north. Well, tomorrow we head off north - we’ve mostly had temperatures of 6 degrees as we’ve wandered through damp churchyards, but today it was only 4, rising to a balmy 5 by 12 noon!! That’s okay. We’ve just worked out the heating in our cottage, let’s hope the other cottages have similar heating systems. I’d still rather that than the 40 degrees they’re getting in Penrith!
We’ve been finding that a lot of the pubs are having trouble getting staff, so have cut back on offering meals - they all have positions vacant boards out the front. Many of the pubs are closed Monday and Tuesday so we had to reassess our lunch plans for today and therefore change the itinerary a little.
we headed straight for Wood Dalling where my Ekes and Fullers lived. Wood Dalling is like 4 minutes from our cottage. Once again the headstones were hard to read, although Tom found 3 Eke headstones net to each other - they are distant cousins of
mine so that was nice. The church was very simple but obviously very active in the community with newsletters leftover from yesterday‘s service still on a table. This church saw 3 baptisms, 2 marriages and 6 burials of my direct ancestors, and it is a very old church.
We then moseyed along to Guestwick Green, where 3 generations of my Eke family lived at the time of the 1841 census. It was just a little beyond Guestwick itself, where we had 2 baptisms, 1 marriage and 3 burials, all in the 1800s, but none could be found. The church was lovely.
The pub we wished to lunch at didn’t open till 12 so we meandered back to Corpusty and Saxthorpe to have another look at the lovely villages just separated by a brook before continuing on to the pub, which, according to Google, does really lovely meals. Unfortunately they had a sign out the front saying no food service due to lack of staff, so we continued on to our second choice, the Three Hoseshoes at Briston. This was just wonderful. The barman greeted us in a very friendly manner as we entered, stopping to chat with us as he
gave us our menus. He even convinced me that their Prosecco by the glass was not so bad. It was okay. My lunch was £19 but if you pay £23 you get a second course, and the starters were worth £8, so of course we did. And the food was just amazing! Such attention to detail, so we’ll plated up, and the chef delivered them to our table and explained that I had to have little fish cakes as well to provide the potato as a carb to make the meal balanced.
feeling very full we returned to our cottage to pack and relax before having to head out tomorrow, bright and early. We’ve not been to Norfolk before, only as close as Cambridge and Suffolk, but we have really enjoyed this time. And Tom has stopped having nightmares involving one lane roads.
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Graham Eke
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Great photos. My branch of the Ekes came from Wood Dalling/Corpusty etc before moving north to find work, possibly due to the agricultural revolution. Several years ago I had a good wander around Wood Dalling and Thurning, visited both churches. I open camped the night in a field just outside Wood Dalling and took refuge in the church porch about 7am due to the cold .