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The Village Belt

Wood, Forest in Norfolk Breckland

England

The Village Belt

Former Fransham station, with rolling-stock 1991 View westward, towards Swaffham and King's Lynn: ex-GER Norwich - Wymondham - Dereham - Swaffham - King's Lynn line. The station closed, with line west from Dereham from 9/9/68. However, it is well preserved as a private house and the owner has kept an ex-GER coach and a small Diesel locomotive (of unknown provenance [?]) in his garden.
Former Fransham station, with rolling-stock 1991 Credit: Ben Brooksbank

The Village Belt, located in Norfolk, is a serene and picturesque woodland area known for its abundant trees and natural beauty. Spanning across a vast expanse, this forested region offers a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of city life. The Village Belt is characterized by its dense woods, with towering trees providing a lush canopy overhead.

The forest is home to a diverse range of flora and fauna, making it an ideal habitat for various species. Visitors can enjoy exploring the numerous walking trails that wind their way through the woods, immersing themselves in the peaceful ambiance and taking in the breathtaking scenery. The Village Belt is a haven for nature enthusiasts, offering opportunities for birdwatching, wildlife spotting, and photography.

The woodland is carefully maintained, with designated areas for recreational activities such as picnicking and camping. There are also facilities for outdoor sports like hiking and mountain biking, attracting adventure seekers and fitness enthusiasts alike.

With its close proximity to the city of Norfolk, The Village Belt serves as a popular destination for day trips and weekend getaways. The forest's tranquil atmosphere and natural beauty provide a refreshing break from the urban environment. Whether you are seeking solitude, outdoor adventures, or simply a peaceful retreat in nature, The Village Belt in Norfolk offers a delightful escape for all.

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Images are sourced within 2km of 52.677755/0.76760034 or Grid Reference TF8712. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Former Fransham station, with rolling-stock 1991 View westward, towards Swaffham and King's Lynn: ex-GER Norwich - Wymondham - Dereham - Swaffham - King's Lynn line. The station closed, with line west from Dereham from 9/9/68. However, it is well preserved as a private house and the owner has kept an ex-GER coach and a small Diesel locomotive (of unknown provenance [?]) in his garden.
Former Fransham station, with rolling-stock 1991
View westward, towards Swaffham and King's Lynn: ex-GER Norwich - Wymondham - Dereham - Swaffham - King's Lynn line. The station closed, with line west from Dereham from 9/9/68. However, it is well preserved as a private house and the owner has kept an ex-GER coach and a small Diesel locomotive (of unknown provenance [?]) in his garden.
Track from Sparham Hall Farm joining Dunham Road Looking westward.
Track from Sparham Hall Farm joining Dunham Road
Looking westward.
Road through Little Dunham Looking northward.
Road through Little Dunham
Looking northward.
The Church of St Margaret at Little Dunham Viewed from the south-west.
The Church of St Margaret at Little Dunham
Viewed from the south-west.
Sporle Landing Ground Memorial This memorial was unveiled on 12 December 2014 by Group Captain Harvey Smythe, the station commander of RAF Marham; a Tornado from RAF Marham performed a flypast. The 43-acre airfield which was located in the adjacent field dates from WW1 and was officially known as Sporle Landing Ground. It was used by 51 Squadron and part of the 47th Wing of the 6th Brigade, Royal Flying Corps, between 1916 and November 1918 as a satellite station to RAF Marham for home defence duties. The aircraft flown from here were BE2 and FE2. The memorial reads: "This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served in The Royal Flying Corps, The Royal Air Force and The Royal Air Service from the landing ground located in this field during the Great War 1914-1918 - Lest We Forget." See also > <a title="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4284240" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4284240">Link</a>.
Sporle Landing Ground Memorial
This memorial was unveiled on 12 December 2014 by Group Captain Harvey Smythe, the station commander of RAF Marham; a Tornado from RAF Marham performed a flypast. The 43-acre airfield which was located in the adjacent field dates from WW1 and was officially known as Sporle Landing Ground. It was used by 51 Squadron and part of the 47th Wing of the 6th Brigade, Royal Flying Corps, between 1916 and November 1918 as a satellite station to RAF Marham for home defence duties. The aircraft flown from here were BE2 and FE2. The memorial reads: "This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served in The Royal Flying Corps, The Royal Air Force and The Royal Air Service from the landing ground located in this field during the Great War 1914-1918 - Lest We Forget." See also > Link.
Sporle Landing Ground Memorial (inscription) This memorial was unveiled on 12 December 2014 by Group Captain Harvey Smythe, the station commander of RAF Marham; a Tornado from RAF Marham performed a flypast. The 43-acre airfield which was located in the adjacent field dates from WW1 and was officially known as Sporle Landing Ground. It was used by 51 Squadron and part of the 47th Wing of the 6th Brigade, Royal Flying Corps, between 1916 and November 1918 as a satellite station to RAF Marham for home defence duties. The aircraft flown from here were BE2 and FE2. For a full view see > <a title="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4284235" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4284235">Link</a>. The memorial reads: "This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served in The Royal Flying Corps, The Royal Air Force and The Royal Air Service from the landing ground located in this field during the Great War 1914-1918 - Lest We Forget."
Sporle Landing Ground Memorial (inscription)
This memorial was unveiled on 12 December 2014 by Group Captain Harvey Smythe, the station commander of RAF Marham; a Tornado from RAF Marham performed a flypast. The 43-acre airfield which was located in the adjacent field dates from WW1 and was officially known as Sporle Landing Ground. It was used by 51 Squadron and part of the 47th Wing of the 6th Brigade, Royal Flying Corps, between 1916 and November 1918 as a satellite station to RAF Marham for home defence duties. The aircraft flown from here were BE2 and FE2. For a full view see > Link. The memorial reads: "This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served in The Royal Flying Corps, The Royal Air Force and The Royal Air Service from the landing ground located in this field during the Great War 1914-1918 - Lest We Forget."
Sporle Landing Ground Memorial This memorial was unveiled on 12 December 2014 by Group Captain Harvey Smythe, the station commander of RAF Marham; a Tornado from RAF Marham performed a flypast. The 43-acre airfield which was located in the adjacent field dates from WW1 and was officially known as Sporle Landing Ground. It was used by 51 Squadron and part of the 47th Wing of the 6th Brigade, Royal Flying Corps, between 1916 and November 1918 as a satellite station to RAF Marham for home defence duties. The aircraft flown from here were BE2 and FE2. The memorial reads: "This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served in The Royal Flying Corps, The Royal Air Force and The Royal Air Service from the landing ground located in this field during the Great War 1914-1918 - Lest We Forget." See also > <a title="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4284240" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4284240">Link</a>.
Sporle Landing Ground Memorial
This memorial was unveiled on 12 December 2014 by Group Captain Harvey Smythe, the station commander of RAF Marham; a Tornado from RAF Marham performed a flypast. The 43-acre airfield which was located in the adjacent field dates from WW1 and was officially known as Sporle Landing Ground. It was used by 51 Squadron and part of the 47th Wing of the 6th Brigade, Royal Flying Corps, between 1916 and November 1918 as a satellite station to RAF Marham for home defence duties. The aircraft flown from here were BE2 and FE2. The memorial reads: "This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served in The Royal Flying Corps, The Royal Air Force and The Royal Air Service from the landing ground located in this field during the Great War 1914-1918 - Lest We Forget." See also > Link.
Ordnance Survey Flush Bracket G2959 This can be found on the wall of a house (private dwelling) at Sparham Hall. For more detail see : <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm12728" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm12728">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
Ordnance Survey Flush Bracket G2959
This can be found on the wall of a house (private dwelling) at Sparham Hall. For more detail see : LinkExternal link
Ordnance Survey Flush Bracket G2961 This can be found on the wall of a house - private dwelling - in Great Dunham. For more detail see : <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm12726" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm12726">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
Ordnance Survey Flush Bracket G2961
This can be found on the wall of a house - private dwelling - in Great Dunham. For more detail see : LinkExternal link
Little Dunham St. Margaret's church The tower, with its plain parapet, was built after the church was finished in the 14th c. The church itself dates from the 13th c. as can be noticed from the style of the south doorway and the lancet windows. The octagonal font is 14th c. and has shields in quatrefoils around the bowl and faces round the corbel. The clustered columns of the 13th c. arcade, almost four columns in one, still have the stone seats around the base from the days before pews; they also bear two consecration crosses. Beside the pulpit is a broken corbel piscina. In the chancel is a good example of a 13th c. corner piscina opening into the dropped window sill which creates the sedilia which unusually has an arm rest. The pulpit, benches, stained glass windows and roofs are all Victorian.
Little Dunham St. Margaret's church
The tower, with its plain parapet, was built after the church was finished in the 14th c. The church itself dates from the 13th c. as can be noticed from the style of the south doorway and the lancet windows. The octagonal font is 14th c. and has shields in quatrefoils around the bowl and faces round the corbel. The clustered columns of the 13th c. arcade, almost four columns in one, still have the stone seats around the base from the days before pews; they also bear two consecration crosses. Beside the pulpit is a broken corbel piscina. In the chancel is a good example of a 13th c. corner piscina opening into the dropped window sill which creates the sedilia which unusually has an arm rest. The pulpit, benches, stained glass windows and roofs are all Victorian.
Farmland near Great Dunham, Norfolk Taken in heavy rain on a dank afternoon
Farmland near Great Dunham, Norfolk
Taken in heavy rain on a dank afternoon
Lane in the rain near Great Dunham
Lane in the rain near Great Dunham
Little Dunham First World War Memorial Eight names are mentioned on the memorial.
Little Dunham First World War Memorial
Eight names are mentioned on the memorial.
Little Dunham Second World War Memorial The Memorial bears five names.
Little Dunham Second World War Memorial
The Memorial bears five names.
Sporle Road railway bridge Sporle Road railway bridge from the King's Lynn - Dereham railway line
Sporle Road railway bridge
Sporle Road railway bridge from the King's Lynn - Dereham railway line
Direction Sign – Signpost Located by a bus shelter on the northwest side of the crossroads of Sporle Road, Necton Road and Station Road in Little Dunham parish. 3 arms and annulus finial. Milestone Society National ID: NO_TF8612
Direction Sign – Signpost
Located by a bus shelter on the northwest side of the crossroads of Sporle Road, Necton Road and Station Road in Little Dunham parish. 3 arms and annulus finial. Milestone Society National ID: NO_TF8612
Direction Sign – Signpost Located on the west side of the junction of Licham Road and Station Road in Great Dunham parish. 3 arms and annulus finial. Milestone Society National ID: NO_TF8714
Direction Sign – Signpost
Located on the west side of the junction of Licham Road and Station Road in Great Dunham parish. 3 arms and annulus finial. Milestone Society National ID: NO_TF8714
Direction Sign – Signpost Located on the south side of the junction of Castle Acre Road and Palgrave Road in Great Dunham parish. 3 arms and missing an annulus finial. Milestone Society National ID: NO_TF8714A
Direction Sign – Signpost
Located on the south side of the junction of Castle Acre Road and Palgrave Road in Great Dunham parish. 3 arms and missing an annulus finial. Milestone Society National ID: NO_TF8714A
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The Village Belt is located at Grid Ref: TF8712 (Lat: 52.677755, Lng: 0.76760034)

Administrative County: Norfolk

District: Breckland

Police Authority: Norfolk

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Little Dunham
Place: village
Lat/Long: 52.6783882/0.7611074
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Access: agricultural
Barrier: cattle_grid
Foot: yes
Material: metal
Lat/Long: 52.6810445/0.763118
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Post Box
Operator: Royal Mail
Post Box Mounting: pier
Post Box Type: lamp
Royal Cypher: EIIR
Lat/Long: 52.6807008/0.7623609
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Little Dunham
Inscription: Nelson of the Nile Trafalgar / Obit21. of Oct 1805 / Erans 4.7. / 1805 / In Commemoration of Peace / John Drosier Esq. Erected this Obilisk Anno Domini MDCCCXIV
Man Made: village_sign
Material: metal
Start Date: 2005
Lat/Long: 52.6806126/0.7623669
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Waste Basket
Waste: dog_excrement
Lat/Long: 52.6766984/0.7623629
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Bench
Backrest: yes
Seats: 3
Lat/Long: 52.6805874/0.7623944
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Barrier: kissing_gate
Foot: yes
Material: wood
Lat/Long: 52.681022/0.7630979
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Barrier: kissing_gate
Foot: yes
Material: wood
Lat/Long: 52.6810244/0.7631414
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Defibrillator
Access: yes
Booth: KX100
Covered: booth
Defibrillator Location: Inside of the disused phone box.
Disused Amenity: telephone
Emergency: defibrillator
Man Made: telephone_box
Ref GB The Circuit: 89F67D32-4F68-407D-911A-AD3F00E0ADD0
Lat/Long: 52.6807134/0.7623623
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Waste Basket
Waste: dog_excrement
Lat/Long: 52.6807273/0.7623643
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Recycling
Recycling Type: container
Lat/Long: 52.6806515/0.7623955
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Leisure: picnic_table
Lat/Long: 52.677283/0.7626432
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Sporle Memorial
Description: Brick and flint square base with inscribed slate top
Historic: memorial
Inscription: This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served in The Royal Flying Corps, The Royal Air Force, The Royal Naval Air Service, from the landing ground located in this field during the Great War 1914-1918 “Lest we forget”
Website: https://www.abct.org.uk/stories/sporle-memorial/
Lat/Long: 52.6741906/0.7636195
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