IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Newtown, THETFORD, IP24 3BN

My last visit. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6811187

These conifers are across the area from Elveden Forest north and east.

I deliberately caught the runner when I saw her passing, but only saw the name of the pub when I got home, it was pure chance.

The Roman Catholic church of St Mary, in Newtown, was built in 1826 immediately following the Catholic Emancipation Act of that year. Constructed in knapped flint with gault brick dressings. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207963 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.

Attached to the Roman Catholic church of St Mary Image is the Presbytery, number 73 Newtown. Built in 1829 as a pair of houses for a priest and a curate, the houses were combined into one in the 20th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1195909 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.

The church stands derelict, and the graveyard neglected, or that’s how it was when I took this photograph. A sad sight, but a sign of the times. At one time according to Cautley Thetford had 13 churches, now only three remain and this has now gone and St Peter’s is redundant, leaving only St Cuthbert’s. He also writes nothing about the churches, as they had all been extensively rebuilt or restored and nothing of interest remained. However this church is basically 14th c. with a broad truncated tower. It was taken into use by the RCC in 1980 and virtually everything stripped out. All that is left now it has been deserted is a canopied niche over the porch, the piscina and wall monuments. The most significant being that of Sir Richard Fulmerstone (1567) and his wife Alice. Saint Mary the Less was Mother of St. James the Less and Joseph, wife of Cleophas. She was one of the three Marys who served Jesus and was present at the crucifixion, and accompanied Mary Magdalen to the tomb of Christ. Tradition reports that she went to Spain as a missionary. Mary reportedly died at Ciudad Rodrigo. Another tradition states that she went to France with St. Lazarus and his sisters but like all these things no one really knows.

Ivy Lodge, number 23 Bridge Street, is an early 19th century house which was raised to two storeys in the mid 19th century. The front is gault brick the rest is coursed clunch with flint and red brick dressings. There are various 19th century extensions to the rear. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1297879 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.