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Illington Road, THETFORD, IP24 1QT

The sign is surmounted by a Ram’s head remembering that at one time a ram was released in a barley field after the harvest and whoever caught it was allowed to keep it. The ram was donated by Eton college which manorial rights at the time. The pine trees and the grey partridges represent all the local flora and fauna. The sharp-eyed will notice one of the partridges is investigating a beetle, locally called a chovy of which there are many, otherwise known as cockchafers. The presence of the witch is a bit of a mystery and probably included for a bit of fun although many parishes had traditions of witchcraft in the middle ages, some of which persisted into the last century.

The sign is surmounted by a Ram’s head remembering that at one time a ram was released in a barley field after the harvest and whoever caught it was allowed to keep it. The ram was donated by Eton college which manorial rights at the time. The pine trees and the grey partridges represent all the local flora and fauna. The sharp-eyed will notice one of the partridges is investigating a beetle, locally called a chovy of which there are many, otherwise known as cockchafers. The presence of the witch is a bit of a mystery and probably included for a bit of fun although many parishes had traditions of witchcraft in the middle ages, some of which persisted into the last century.

Now deserted, east Wretham airfield was hurriedly brought into service during the early years of World War II as a satellite airfield with No. 311 (Czech) Squadron dispersed there from RAF Honington in July 1940. No hard runway was ever laid. East Wretham churchyard has 16 graves of those who died while serving at the station. After the war ended, the airfield was briefly used by the RAF as a Polish resettlement camp, and STANTA (Stanford Practical Training Area) finally took over possession until its closure.

This unusual sign warns motorists of the entrance to the army camp at Wretham.

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Here next to the Peddars way in Norfolk is an old railway bridge of which the railway has been gone for some considerable amount of years The Railway was once the Bury Thetford and Swaffham railway, though looking on an old 1930's OS map it appears just to run from Roundham to Swaffham probably taken over by the Great Eastern Railway and so to British Rail Eastern region in 1947

The first of many such buildings at this farm, from access track and route of Peddars Way