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Among
the celebrated people who have lived in Aylsham is the famous landscape
gardener Humphry Repton, who is buried in the church yard.
His gravestone bears an epitaph which he composed himself before
his death.
Other famous Aylsham people include Joseph Thomas Clover
(1825-1882), the father of modern anaesthetics who was born over
a shop on the Market Place.
John Jegon, the Bishop of Norwich who died in 1617 bought
the manor house, built around 1550, and enlarged it to become his
country home after the original Bishop's palace at Ludham burned
down. He is buried in Aylsham church.
On the wall of Barclay's Bank in the Market Place is a plaque to
the memory of Christopher Layer, described as 'the last Norfolk
Jacobite' who was hung, drawn and quartered in 1723.
The town was once famous for its spa which was allegedly
very popular, but by the 1820s had virtually disappeared. The site
of the well still exists but all traces have gone except for a trickle
of water where the well once was.
Text
courtesy of Tom Mollard
of the Aylsham Local History Society 01263 761638.
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