Thetford houses [27]
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Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020
This terrace of nine houses, odd numbers 71 to 87 Castle Street, was built in the mid 19th century. Constructed in various styles in knapped flint with gault brick dressings. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207608 Once the ancient capital of East Anglia, Thetford is a market town established at a crossing of the River Little Ouse. A major centre of Boudica’s Iceni tribe with an Iron Age fort. Later came a Norman castle and an important priory. Thetford is the birthplace of 18th century radical Thomas Paine, whose thinking encouraged American independence and the abolition of slavery. After World War II, Thetford became an "overspill town", taking people from London.