Kessingland village sign
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Kessingland village sign by Adrian S Pye as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Kessingland village sign
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 4 May 2011
The sun at the top related to Kessingland being on the east coast and is one of the first places in the country the sun touches at dawn. The shield with a ship’s wheel and bell relates to those which can be found in the church of St Edmund; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6078524 while the fish in the net relate specifically to the fishing industry and the longshore fishermen. The scythe, sickle and wheatsheaf are symbolic of the agricultural heritage away from the beach. The affinity with the sea is reinforced by the lower part of the sign which also bears the three crowns of East Anglia. Not being pierced with arrows they don’t relate to St Edmund, the patron saint of the church.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.419328
Longitude
1.705127