Swanton Novers, Norfolk, England

• Aerial view - part of the village
  
• Street Map - Use overlay function.
  
• What did they look like; are they still there? Not all places listed below have photographic images linked to them.:
  
  • Brick Works
  • Pig(g)(e)'s Grave Cottage - no longer exists. Was at crossroads of Fakenham to Melton Constable, Holt to Dereham roads, on the outskirts of Swanton Novers at Pig(g)(e)'s Grave Corner or Crossroads.
    
  • Swanton House View 1 , View 2
    
  • Swanton Lodge/The Lodge/Park Gates Lodge - Entrance to Melton Constable Hall Estate
    
  • Beerhouse (Huntsman)
    
  • Willow Place
    
  • (St.) Giles Road - View 1 , View 2, View 3, View 4
    Also see old aerial view and modern aerial view
    
  • The Parsonage/Rectory/Vicarage
    
  • The [High] Street - looking from the Post Office towards the Old Shop
    
  • Stocks Corner and Stocks Lane - the lane between the Post Office and the Old Council Houses, probably so named for the village stocks which were in this area at one time
    
  • The Bell Inn
    
  • A happy group at the [Blue] Bell Inn
  • Rudd(s) Farm View 1
    
  • Oxboro/Oxborough Farm - past the church and bear to the right
    
  • Hall Farm - between the church and the Keeper's Lodge; Keeper's Lodge - in Swanton Great Wood, past the church
    
  • Gunthorpe Lane
    
  • Bell Farm House
  • Park Lane - looking toward Swanton Novers from Melton Constable estate Park gates
    
  • Park Lane in Winter
  • The Old Reading Room
    
  • Oak Tree Cottage
    
  • Dereham Road
    
  • Spalding's Lane near Bell Road
    
  • Swanton Cottage - in The (High) Street opposite the Old Reading Room. A sale advertisement circa 1939 described the "cottage" as having "2 reception (rooms), kitchen, scullery, bathroom, indoor and outdoor sanitation, garage, stable, storehouse and other buildings, lawn, wooded grounds, kitchen garden, glasshouses, meadow, about 3 acres in all".
    
  • Church Lane
    
  • The Old Shop - 1950s, Now

• Sporting Swanton
  
  • Cricket anyone? The "Professionals".
  • Swanton Novers Football Club photo (unknown date)
    Team members:
    Back row: T. Kaye (referee), J. Dennis (trainer), W. Fitt, N. Taylor, J. Temple, H. Cooper, A. Leeder, A. Barnes (Committee man);
    Front row: M. Wadlow, G.R. Leeder, P. Wadlow (Captain), A. Brown, R. Dennis, J. Parsons

• Miscellaneous Sights and Scenes
  
  • Ted Leeder delivers milk the "old fashioned" way!

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