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Turn left and
the lane winds uphill then bends sharply right to a farm then curves
left through farm buildings to join another crossing lane. Turn
right and the lane winds to a paved road. Turn right but when the
road soon bends left you go straight ahead into a green path.
Continue now
for half mile, ignoring any side turns until you go down a slope
and into a clear crossing lane. Go straight over and into a sunken
lane which goes uphill and soon swings right then straight over
fields to the corner of a wood in which there are the remains of
St Mary's Church abandoned in 1688.
Turn left into
a green path with the wood on your right to the end of the wood
and into another track on a corner. Turn left and with a fine view
of the John Soane parsonage away to your left you continue to a
road. Turn left but quite soon you can turn right into a green path
parallel with the road which takes you
safely back to the recreation ground.
Saxlingham
Nethergate's Elizabethan manor. |
Historical
note:
Saxlingham Nethergate is a beautiful village with a lovingly
tended church which lies on a small green between good examples
on one side of an Elizabethan manor and on the other a parsonage
built by Sir John Soane in 1784. Inside the church are rare
examples of stained glass from the 13th to the 15th centuries
which are certainly among the best in Norfolk. An interesting
citizen of Saxlingham when Soane was building the parsonage
and nearby Shotesham Hall was George Watson the miller of Saxlingham
Mill. George was a member of the Norwich Revolution Society
and an advocate of equal representation for both rich and poor.
It was the time of Tom Paine and The Rights of Man and when
Norwich had a reputation as a Jacobin City. The agitation for
greater democracy was however, put on hold when the price of
wheat went up to 57s a combe. "The greatest price I ever received"
said Parson Woodforde and the flour mills of Trowse and Hellesdon
were attacked by a rioting population.
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