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Hi Folks
Slowly getting the hang of this blog business so hopefully will be more regular in future !
Today set off on cycle - needs to use more so as to save on petrol costs ! Set off early to take photos of Oxburgh Hall - 16th cent stately home. Arrived to find it covered in scaffolding - not pleased. Continued on through the countryside. Continued few miles to Cockley Cley where there is an attractive medieval church and the Iceni Village (Iceni as in Iron Age tribe). Grumbled about the £5 entrance fee. Really worth it.
Site contains an agric museum. a recon of a Icenit village and a trail down to a bird hide overloooking a lake. Also a sixteenth cent cottage - really interesting architecturally. Finally - and the real gem - was the Saxon church.
Returned to Gibbet Lane and abandoning the bike jumped in the car and drove up to Castle Rising - eleventh century keep. Returned via Blackborough End where had afternoon tea with Ann (auntie !!!!!) and Heather and Andrew (cousins).
bye .......
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Kursti
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glad you enjoyed my homelands. The Iceni village looking well shabby but greatly underfunded despite the entrance fee(I know lived there sooooo many years but still the same fee to find out about my own local history!!) The Iceni part of it is really worth researching though, that's what this area is all about. love Kursti