IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Thurning, DEREHAM, NR20 5QU

Hedgerows and hedgerow trees next to Sandy Lane

View from churchyard gate towards an large farm shed beside track to Coconut Grove.

Taken from near the entrance to the churchyard at Thurning.

St Andrew's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828726 is listed in the book "England's Thousand Best Churches" authored by Simon Jenkins. Because its chancel was demolished during the 18th century the building appears truncated. Part of the ruined chancel wall still stands and a profusion of wild flowers is growing on both sides > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828676. The interior of the church is furnished with 18th century box pews > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828740 simple benches and a three-decker pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828735 - designed by James Burrough and originating from the old chapel of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. There are a number of 18th century memorials in the sanctuary as well as on the south wall > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828763. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurning/thurning.htm

Russian comfrey is native to Europe; it grows in damp, grassy areas and is a common plant throughout Great Britain. It was introduced in the 1870s by a Quaker smallholder, Henry Doubleday, who had a small factory making gum for stamps, at a time when gum Arabic was in short supply. Looking for potential new sources of gum he sent to Russia for some of their indigenous comfrey plants. Incidentally, the plants he received were natural hybrids and of no use for gum production but comfrey has long been known by herbalists and organic gardeners. When Lawrence D. Hills, founder and president of the HDRA, started his work promoting organic gardening, he took a special personal interest in comfrey and conducted experiments in order to categorise the different forms found in Britain.

Memorial to Caleb Elwin (d. 1776), by E. Holl. St Andrew's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828726 is listed in the book "England's Thousand Best Churches" authored by Simon Jenkins. Because its chancel was demolished during the 18th century the building appears truncated. Part of the ruined chancel wall still stands and a profusion of wild flowers is growing on both sides > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828676. The interior of the church is furnished with 18th century box pews > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828740 simple benches and a three-decker pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/828735 - designed by James Burrough and originating from the old chapel of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. There are a number of monuments in the sanctuary as well as on the south wall. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thurning/thurning.htm