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The likeness of Blomefield depicted in the form of the astronomer John Flamsteed, whom he was said to resemble, 1805 [note 1]. Rev. Francis Blomefield (23 July 1705 – 16 January 1752), FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.
The Norfolk Basin is synclinal basin, partially bounded by faults, running east-northeast between the Dedham Block and the Foxborough Block. It contains the folded and cleaved, but unmetamorphosed Wamsutta Formation and Pondville Conglomerate , which both formed in the Pennsylvanian , also known as the Late Carboniferous 323 to 298 million ...
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək, locally / ˈ n ɔːr f ɔːr k / NOR-fork) is a New England town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, with a population of 11,662 people at the 2020 census. [1] Formerly known as North Wrentham, Norfolk broke away to become an independent town in 1870.
Norfolk County, Massachusetts, geography stubs (1 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Geography of Norfolk County, Massachusetts" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts (5 C, 97 P) Pages in category "History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
These four record books were also abstracted by Sidney Perley in The Essex Antiquarian. This magazine (published 1897 to 1911) has also been electronically imaged and some volumes are available at Google Books. A new, unrelated county was established as Norfolk County, Massachusetts from most of the southern portion of Suffolk County in 1793.
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 5. pp. 164–171 Retrieved 17 June 2009 . 52°30′56″N 1°08′58″E / 52.515418°N 1.14953°E / 52.515418; 1
Francis Blomefield in his An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (1807) writes the following succession of owners: "from the Hawes, it came to the Willoughbys; and by Catherine, a daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, to the Purefoys, and to the Greys, and the Astons, as in Southrey, and is now in Sir Robert Burdet." [3]