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North Pickenham is near to the lost village of Houghton on the Hill with the restored church of St Mary's, with its amazing 11th century wall paintings<ref>[http://www.hoh.org.uk/Find-Us/ Saint Mary's]</ref> <ref>[http://www.hoh.org.uk/Docs/Church-of-St-Mary.pdf Comprehensive St. Mary's .pdf file]</ref>, instigated with tireless devotion by Bob Davey [[MBE]]<ref>[http://www.honours.gov.uk/~/media/assets/www.honours.gov.uk/queens_list%20pdf.ashx Bob Davey MBE]</ref> <ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5jJnoO04Jv8C&pg=PA394&lpg=PA394&dq=mr+davey+versus+the+devil&source=web&ots=foTZ2ChD0G&sig=v8bElxmTF9R61GK7G1qS Mr Davey Versus The Devil]</ref> <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4758441.stm Heritage Lottery Fund]</ref>,
North Pickenham is near to the lost village of Houghton on the Hill with the restored church of St Mary's, with its amazing 11th century wall paintings<ref>[http://www.hoh.org.uk/Find-Us/ Saint Mary's]</ref> <ref>[http://www.hoh.org.uk/Docs/Church-of-St-Mary.pdf Comprehensive St. Mary's .pdf file]</ref>, instigated with tireless devotion by Bob Davey [[MBE]]<ref>[http://www.honours.gov.uk/~/media/assets/www.honours.gov.uk/queens_list%20pdf.ashx Bob Davey MBE]</ref> <ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5jJnoO04Jv8C&pg=PA394&lpg=PA394&dq=mr+davey+versus+the+devil&source=web&ots=foTZ2ChD0G&sig=v8bElxmTF9R61GK7G1qS Mr Davey Versus The Devil]</ref> <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4758441.stm Heritage Lottery Fund]</ref>,


The former [[Royal Air Force]] base, [[RAF North Pickenham]], was located nearby hosting American [[B-24 Liberator]] bombers during [[World War II]].<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K6Z9SQEaZDMC&pg=PA91&dq=pickenham&sig=ACfU3U3jCK-3ha8r5bcH00c5FviZ5f9p4A#PPA91,M1 32 Copilots By Charles R. Bastien]</ref> In the late 1950s and early 1960s three [[PGM-17 Thor]] nuclear missiles were based here<ref>[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VbTJ0WUEmWI YouTube contemporary missile footage]</ref><ref>[http://www.wattonandswaffhamtimes.co.uk/content/wstimes/news/story.aspx?brand=WSOnline&category=news&tBrand=WSOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED27%20Oct%202008%2014:23:09:857 The day Feltwell stood on nuclear brink]</ref> with early cases of [[CND]] acts of [[civil disobedience]]<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EayyTTpXL-QC&pg=PA271&dq=pickenham+russell&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2vP2WxG9GVlePgkqKnsSLYjzCjwg#PPA271,M1 Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell By Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QvOpmGDIwocC&pg=PA131&dq=pickenham&lr=&sig=ACfU3U1Lv0rNWARBIB-uULRLD_YwtOkU_w Against the Bomb By Richard K. S. Taylor]</ref> . The airbase is now the site of a turkey farm owned by [[Bernard Matthews]]<ref>[http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/208640 Google Earth Community: The world's largest turkey farm<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, a karting circuit <ref> [http://www.anglia-karting.co.uk/ Anglia Karting]</ref>and an eight-turbine [[wind farm]] run by Enertrag UK Ltd.<ref>[http://www.enertraguk.com/projects/north-pickenham/north-pickenham-construction.html Enertrag UK]</ref>
The former [[Royal Air Force]] base, [[RAF North Pickenham]], was located nearby hosting American [[B-24 Liberator]] bombers during [[World War II]].<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K6Z9SQEaZDMC&pg=PA91&dq=pickenham&sig=ACfU3U3jCK-3ha8r5bcH00c5FviZ5f9p4A#PPA91,M1 32 Copilots By Charles R. Bastien]</ref> In the late 1950s and early 1960s three [[PGM-17 Thor]] nuclear missiles were based here<ref>[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VbTJ0WUEmWI YouTube contemporary missile footage]</ref><ref>[http://www.wattonandswaffhamtimes.co.uk/content/wstimes/news/story.aspx?brand=WSOnline&category=news&tBrand=WSOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED27%20Oct%202008%2014:23:09:857 The day Feltwell stood on nuclear brink]</ref> with early cases of [[CND]] acts of [[civil disobedience]]<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EayyTTpXL-QC&pg=PA271&dq=pickenham+russell&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2vP2WxG9GVlePgkqKnsSLYjzCjwg#PPA271,M1 Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell By Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins]</ref><ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QvOpmGDIwocC&pg=PA131&dq=pickenham&lr=&sig=ACfU3U1Lv0rNWARBIB-uULRLD_YwtOkU_w Against the Bomb By Richard K. S. Taylor]</ref> . The airbase is now the site of a turkey farm owned by [[Bernard Matthews]]<ref>[http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/208640 Google Earth Community: The world's largest turkey farm<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, a karting circuit <ref> [http://www.anglia-karting.co.uk/ Anglia Karting]</ref>and an eight-turbine [[wind farm]] run by Enertrag UK Ltd.<ref>[http://www.enertraguk.com/projects/north-pickenham/north-pickenham-construction.html Enertrag UK]</ref> In February 2009 Bernard Matthews detailed plans to put two turbines at the airfield site<ref>[http://www.bernardmatthewsfarms.com/community/windfarm.pdf Bernard Matthews turbine proposal]</ref>, an independent development to the eight turbines already there.


The 46 mile [[Peddars Way]] footpath runs through the village, 19 miles<ref>[http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/peddarsway/uploads/Final%20distance%20chart(1).pdf Peddars Way Distant Chart]</ref> from its south eastern start in [[Suffolk]]. The Peddars Way<ref>[http://www.aniboom.com/video/298688/The%20Pedlar%20of%20Swaffham/?ref=/Scoreboard/aniBoom_Awards_2008 Pedlar of Swaffham animation]</ref> starts at [[Knettishall Heath]] [[Country Park]] and follows the route of a [[Roman road]] to [[Holme-next-the-Sea]] on the Norfolk coast north of [[Hunstanton]]. At Holme the Peddars Way meets the [[Norfolk Coast Path]] as it runs east along the north Norfolk coast, designated as an [[Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]], to the [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[seaside resort]] of [[Cromer]].
The 46 mile [[Peddars Way]] footpath runs through the village, 19 miles<ref>[http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/peddarsway/uploads/Final%20distance%20chart(1).pdf Peddars Way Distant Chart]</ref> from its south eastern start in [[Suffolk]]. The Peddars Way<ref>[http://www.aniboom.com/video/298688/The%20Pedlar%20of%20Swaffham/?ref=/Scoreboard/aniBoom_Awards_2008 Pedlar of Swaffham animation]</ref> starts at [[Knettishall Heath]] [[Country Park]] and follows the route of a [[Roman road]] to [[Holme-next-the-Sea]] on the Norfolk coast north of [[Hunstanton]]. At Holme the Peddars Way meets the [[Norfolk Coast Path]] as it runs east along the north Norfolk coast, designated as an [[Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]], to the [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] [[seaside resort]] of [[Cromer]].

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North Pickenham is a village in the Breckland district[1] of mid-Norfolk, East Anglia, England in the United Kingdom. Named after its leader Pinca[2], Pica[3][4] or maybe Piccea with ham meaning homestead, it became a pagan Anglo Saxon settlement in the 5th century AD. It remained part of a Saxon kingdom until the Norman Conquest in 1066[5] when it became part of the honour of the Earl of Richmond, Yorkshire. The village sign[6] shows a Saxon (left) and a Norman (right) warrior (see Great Britain in the Middle Ages) with Richmond Castle and the river Wissey in the background; The sign was designed by Ben Ripper, a local historian, and carved by Steve Eggleton[7].

North Pickenham has an area of 1015 hectares (3.92 square miles) with an estimated population of 495 as of UK census 2001. Norfolk (pop. 832,400) has about a 30th the population density of Central London, the tenth lowest density county in the country, with 38% of the county’s population living in the three major built up areas of Norwich (194,200), Great Yarmouth (66,400) and King's Lynn (40,700).[8]

It has a Parish Council Tax (Band D) 1st April 2007 of £38.65.[9]

It was once in the Hundred of South Greenhoe.[10][11][12]

North Pickenham is three miles, as the crow flies, from the Georgian market town of Swaffham.

The River Wissey cuts through the village at Houghton Lane bridge[13], following the course of Meadow Lane, close to the river's source at Bradenham.

Its sister village South Pickenham is two miles away through pretty, narrow country lanes.

North Pickenham has a newly extended school[14] with its own wind turbine. Its namesake, at the centre of the village, is St Andrew's church [15] [16][17] in the Benefice of Necton [18]

Adjacent to the church is a freehouse pub called the Blue Lion[19] which, with recent surveys and listed buildings visits, suggest it dates from the late 1700s with documented licensees from the mid 19th century.[20].

North Pickenham is near to the lost village of Houghton on the Hill with the restored church of St Mary's, with its amazing 11th century wall paintings[21] [22], instigated with tireless devotion by Bob Davey MBE[23] [24] [25],

The former Royal Air Force base, RAF North Pickenham, was located nearby hosting American B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II.[26] In the late 1950s and early 1960s three PGM-17 Thor nuclear missiles were based here[27][28] with early cases of CND acts of civil disobedience[29][30] . The airbase is now the site of a turkey farm owned by Bernard Matthews[31], a karting circuit [32]and an eight-turbine wind farm run by Enertrag UK Ltd.[33] In February 2009 Bernard Matthews detailed plans to put two turbines at the airfield site[34], an independent development to the eight turbines already there.

The 46 mile Peddars Way footpath runs through the village, 19 miles[35] from its south eastern start in Suffolk. The Peddars Way[36] starts at Knettishall Heath Country Park and follows the route of a Roman road to Holme-next-the-Sea on the Norfolk coast north of Hunstanton. At Holme the Peddars Way meets the Norfolk Coast Path as it runs east along the north Norfolk coast, designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, to the Victorian seaside resort of Cromer.

The annual local village show was reinstated in 2007 with great success. It not only raises funds for the church but highlights the growing and making skills of local residents whilst also being a great community event.[37]

Local action group Johnsons Community Action Group is endeavoring to improve the local playing field and surrounding environment. [38]

The Pickenhams' Parish Voice is a monthly community magazine servicing the 290 homes of both North and South Pickenham. parishvoice[at]gmail[dot]com

Ordnance Survey Benchmark at Manor Farm[39]

Circular village walk [40] and somewhere to sit on the way round. [41]

Informative .pdf files of the Breckland area [42] and central Norfolk. [43]

Old postcards of both North and South Pickenham.[44]

Local topographical photographs. [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52]

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge:

  • Turbine at the old airfield
    Turbine at the old airfield
  • Big Norfolk skies
    Big Norfolk skies
  • Turbines in the mist
    Turbines in the mist
  • The Blue Lion pub
    The Blue Lion pub
  • Traditional Norfolk sign
    Traditional Norfolk sign
  • St. Andrew's church
    St. Andrew's church
  • Village sign
    Village sign
  • Sign on Houghton Lane
    Sign on Houghton Lane
  • St. Mary's chapel of ease at Houghton on the Hill
    St. Mary's chapel of ease at Houghton on the Hill
  • Counties of East Anglia
    Counties of East Anglia
  • Village magazine cover with Village Show winners
    Village magazine cover with Village Show winners

Links to related websites:

  1. ^ Visit Breckland
  2. ^ Pinca
  3. ^ Institute for Name Studies. Search Pickenham, ignore new map window and click on result
  4. ^ INS result
  5. ^ Doomsday Book
  6. ^ Village sign
  7. ^ Steve Eggleton
  8. ^ Norfolk Government Statistics
  9. ^ Breckland Yearbook
  10. ^ GenUKI
  11. ^ The Beauties of England and Wales
  12. ^ A General History of the County of Norfolk
  13. ^ River Wissey at Houghton Lane 52°37'35.18"N 0°45'19.63"E
  14. ^ St Andrew’s C of E Primary School, North Pickenham
  15. ^ St.Andrew's
  16. ^ Diocese of Norwich
  17. ^ Norfolk churches
  18. ^ Necton Benefice
  19. ^ Blue Lion PH
  20. ^ Blue Lion history
  21. ^ Saint Mary's
  22. ^ Comprehensive St. Mary's .pdf file
  23. ^ Bob Davey MBE
  24. ^ Mr Davey Versus The Devil
  25. ^ Heritage Lottery Fund
  26. ^ 32 Copilots By Charles R. Bastien
  27. ^ YouTube contemporary missile footage
  28. ^ The day Feltwell stood on nuclear brink
  29. ^ Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell By Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins
  30. ^ Against the Bomb By Richard K. S. Taylor
  31. ^ Google Earth Community: The world's largest turkey farm
  32. ^ Anglia Karting
  33. ^ Enertrag UK
  34. ^ Bernard Matthews turbine proposal
  35. ^ Peddars Way Distant Chart
  36. ^ Pedlar of Swaffham animation
  37. ^ Village show report
  38. ^ Johnsons Community Action Group
  39. ^ Flush Bracket G1543
  40. ^ EDP walks
  41. ^ Lynn News
  42. ^ Breckland
  43. ^ Central Norfolk
  44. ^ Old postcards
  45. ^ Geograph
  46. ^ Geograph
  47. ^ Geograph
  48. ^ Geograph
  49. ^ Geograph
  50. ^ Geograph
  51. ^ Geograph
  52. ^ Geograph
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