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St. Leonards Street, THETFORD, IP26 5HG

A miserably wet New Year's Day morning in this Norfolk village.

Costcutter convenience store and a post office

The Crown overlooks the small formal triangular village green. Sitting by this window you have no excuse for forgetting the name of the pub.

Looking into St Leonard's Street.

Looking across from the Crown.

The sign is double sided, north and south facing. The north face shows St Leonard’s church from the east and a woolly mammoth, remains of which were found in Lynford quarry. The River Wissey has fish swimming therein. A stag represents the surrounding countryside and the crown and date 1650 represent the Crown Hotel in the village. The birds are stone curlews which are also known as the Norfolk plover inhabit the Brecks. The frame is decorated with local fauna. On the south face, St Leonard’s church, as viewed from the south with fir cones, a squirrel and a stag representing the surrounding countryside. Below is a thatched manor house one of two recorded manors anciently Montfort Manor, named after that family and below that is the Crown Hotel. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6791116 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6791122

The sign is double sided, north and south facing. On the south face, St Leonard’s church, as viewed from the south with fir cones, a squirrel and a stag representing the surrounding countryside. Below is a thatched manor house one of two recorded manors anciently Montfort Manor, named after that family and below that is the Crown Hotel. The north face shows St Leonard’s church from the east and a woolly mammoth, remains of which were found in Lynford quarry. The River Wissey has fish swimming therein. A stag represents the surrounding countryside and the crown and date 1650 represent the Crown Hotel in the village. The birds are stone curlews which are also known as the Norfolk plover inhabit the Brecks. The frame is decorated with local fauna. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6791116 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6791127

The sign is double sided, north and south facing. The north face shows St Leonard’s church from the east and a woolly mammoth, remains of which were found in Lynford quarry. The River Wissey has fish swimming therein. A stag represents the surrounding countryside and the crown and date 1650 represent the Crown Hotel in the village. The birds are stone curlews which are also known as the Norfolk plover inhabit the Brecks. The frame is decorated with local fauna. On the south face, St Leonard’s church, as viewed from the south with fir cones, a squirrel and a stag representing the surrounding countryside. Below is a thatched manor house one of two recorded manors anciently Montfort Manor, named after that family and below that is the Crown Hotel. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6791122 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6791127

Flint, red and yellow brick, pantiles and a village sign.