The period is characterised by a growing gap between the wealthy and the poor of Norwich. Tension had been growing in the county due to rising taxation in the face of rising grain prices, coupled with increasing amounts of interference by the central government in county affairs. 22-32, An historical atlas of Norfolk, pp. It is known from external evidence from excavations and place-names that by c. 800 AD all Norfolk had been settled and the first towns had emerged. During the last Ice age, reaching its greatest extent between 22,000 and 17,000 years ago, the so-called Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)the whole of Britain was either ice sheet or polar desert thus wiping out the entire gene pool. See Terms of Use for details. } There were also throwbacks to the earlier ages and one such type were the monuments. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. } In 1144 the Jews were accused of the ritual murder of a young boy named William, who was subsequently canonized. The rebels led by the 'King of the Commons' Geoffrey Litster were defeated by a force led by Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich: the site is one of only five known battlefields in Norfolk.[32]. [42] Although some historians refer to Utting as a royalist, Scott E. Hendrix argues that the situation was more complicated than that. [18], The Anglo-Saxons eventually expanded across Norfolk. The River Waveney between Norfolk and Suffolk was at that time a substantial feature.[13]. The county was one of the first places on earth bombed from the air when German Zeppelin airships raided the county a number of times. View Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for Norfolk. Mediaeval Norfolk was the mostly densely populated and the most productive agricultural region in the country. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. [11], There is evidence that much of Norfolk was intensively farmed by people during the Late Iron Age. [9][10], Grimes Graves is a large and well-preserved group of Neolithic flint mines at a site near Brandon, consisting of 400 pits. Spelling being at best erratic and local dialects very thick, often lead to the development of variant spelling forms. 27% of Norfolk men worked as a Farmer and 19% of Norfolk women worked as a Saleslady. Please report any broken links to the list administrator - see changes and corrections. Estates became neglected as their owners strived to save money and many estates disappeared as farms, parks and woodland were sold off and halls were left to decay.