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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.
Jone, a daughter, baptised in January 1563/4 at home by the midwife, [13] buried on 22 January 1563/4 at St. George Colegate, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [ 14 ] The couple's monument survives, and is located in the same chapel as the monuments of Robert Suckling , also a Norwich politician, and his son Sir John Suckling , who was knighted in ...
An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. (on the Internet Archive): volume 1 volume 2 volume 5 volume 7 volume 8 volume 9 volume 10 volume 11. The Introduction and volumes 1–6 are available as texts on Wikisource. Chambers, John (1829). A general history of the county of Norfolk; Cooke, George Alexander (1820).
Clippesby is located 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Great Yarmouth and 13 miles (21 km) east of Norwich. The village consists largely of a few rows of small cottages and houses with four buildings of historical relevance, the Church of St. Peter's, the Rectory, the Old Hall (now Old Hall Farm) and Clippesby Hall (formerly Clippesby House).
The historic main house, Old Crostwight Hall, was considered as a project by the Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust but was instead rebuilt by a developer. [22] The house has sometimes been called 'Crostwick Hall', for instance in Parkin's Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (1810), where it is called "an agreeable old ...
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south.
William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1835 edition) says of Thurning: [14] THURNING, or Thirning, is a parish of dispersed houses, 6 miles (9.7 km) S. of Holt, and 4½ miles N. of Reepham, with 140 inhabitants and about 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) of land. W. E. L. Bulwer, Esq., is lord of the manor, (fine arbitrary.)
Francis Blomefield: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of Norfolk, William Miller, London, 1807. Millican, Percy: A History of Horstead and Stanninghall, H.W. Hunt, Norwich, 1937; Pevsner, Nikolaus: The Buildings of England: Norfolk; Clearly visible memorial stone at St Andrew's, Lamas; NOAH: Norfolk On-Line Access to Heritage