Elmswell village sign (detail)
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Elmswell village sign (detail) by Adrian S Pye as part of the Geograph project.
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Elmswell village sign (detail)
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 21 Jul 2019
This face remembers the visit of King Henry VI in 1433 and shows the Lancastrian King being welcomed by the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. In the foreground a Benedictine monk is seen setting a snare for a rabbit. It was the Normans who first introduced rabbits to England and the Abbot kept a warren at Elmswell for the supply of meat and pelts. On the left is the tomb of the 16th Century Chief Justice of Ireland, Sir Robert Gardener, who gave the village its almshouses. The Kiln on the right symbolises the discovery in 1964 of a Roman-British Kiln. http://www.club-noticeboard.co.uk/elmswell/history.html
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Image Location
Latitude
52.237743
Longitude
0.913259