Map sources for Thetford at grid reference TL8783

Coordinates: 52°25′0.94″N, 0°45′26.79″E Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland area of Norfolk, England. It is located on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just south of Thetford Forest. The civil parish (area of 29.55 km²) has a population of 21,588 ^[1] Image File history File links Dot4gb. ... Image File history File links Gb4dot. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... The market town is a medieval phenomenon. ... A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... The Breckland is a landscape region and unusual natural habitat of England. ... Norfolk (IPA: //) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 967 AD  Area  -  Total 130,395 km²  50,346 sq mi  Population  -  2007 estimate... The A11 is a major road in England. ... Norwich (IPA: //) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Thetford Forest is located in a region straddling the north of Suffolk and the south of Norfolk. ... To help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 10 km² (1000 hectares) and 100 km² (10,000 hectares). ...

History

In the Anglo-Saxon period, Thetford was the home of the monarchs of East Anglia and was seat of a bishopric. Castle Hill is the highest Norman motte in England though no trace remains of the castle which once surmounted it. The mound (motte) is open to the public, and provides an excellent views of the town from its summit and extensive earthworks. It is situated in a public park, near the Three Nuns Bridges and close to the town centre overlooking the rivers. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ... In some Christian churches, the diocese is an administrative territorial unit governed by a bishop, sometimes also referred to as a bishopric or episcopal see, though more often the term episcopal see means the office held by the bishop. ... The nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the nave is a forerunner of the Gothic style. ... A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 967 AD  Area  -  Total 130,395 km²  50,346 sq mi  Population  -  2007 estimate...

Thetford contains the ruins of a 12th century Cluniac priory. The Priory, open to the public, was closed during the Reformation. Both the Priory and the Bell Inn, also in Thetford, were featured for their alleged hauntings on the television series Ghosthunters. Cluny nowadays The town of Cluny or Clugny lies in the modern-day département of Saône-et-Loire in the région of France, near Mâcon. ... Ruins of Thetford Priory Thetford Priory is a Cluniac Priory located at Thetford, England. ... A priory is an ecclesiastical circumscription run by a prior. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ... Ghosthunters was a two season show produced by Inca Productions of Hammersmith London, by producers Sheldon Greenberg and Ed Babbage and was commisioned by the Discovery Channel Europe in 1996. ...

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and other early Tudor Dynasty officials were once buried in Thetford before removal to Framlingham. Thetford was also the birthplace of American Revolutionary Thomas Paine. A statue of Paine stands on King Street, holding a quill and his book Rights of Man, upside down. Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (c. ... The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: ) was a series of six monarchs of a Welsh origin who ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until 1603. ... Map sources for Framlingham at grid reference TM2863 Framlingham is a market town in East Suffolk, England. ... Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical intellectual, and deist. ... Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man in 1791 as a reply to Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, and as such, it is a work glorifying the French Revolution. ...

Today, the surrounding Breckland has been largely replaced by the Thetford Forest though Thetford Chase remains. Thetford, whose flint stone buildings doubled for Walmington-on-Sea in the BBC-1 TV series Dad's Army, also has become known for its Portuguese and East European shops and cafes. The Breckland is a landscape region and unusual natural habitat of England. ... Thetford Forest is located in a region straddling the north of Suffolk and the south of Norfolk. ... A flint nodule from the Onondaga limestone layer, Buffalo, New York. ... Walmington-on-Sea was a fictional seaside resort where the BBC tv comedy series, BBC radio series and film Dads Army was based. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest United Kingdom, and indeed, the world. ... Dad’s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. ... Eastern Europe is, by convention, a region defined geographically as that part of Europe covering the eastern part of the continent. ...

Events and sports

Thetford hosts an annual Autumn Equinox Festival for astronomy. The festival has featured Patrick Moore of The Sky at Night. Thetford is also the site for the UK's Star Party, as it is centrally located in a rural area with dark night skies. An annual concert, STORM, also calls Thetford home. In astronomy, the autumnal equinox signals the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere: the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward; the equinox occurs around September 22–September 24, varying slightly each year according to the 400-year cycle of leap years in... A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant Astronomy is the science of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earths atmosphere (such as auroras and cosmic background radiation). ... Sir Patrick Moore presenting The Sky at Night, October 2005 Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923), known as Patrick Moore, is an English amateur astronomer who has attained legendary status in British astronomy as a writer and television presenter of the subject and who... The Sky at Night is a long running television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. It is the longest running television programme with the same presenter anywhere. ...

The Thetford & District Sunday Football League, now known as the Breckland & District Sunday Football League, encompasses teams from within a 20 mile radius of Thetford.

Transportation

Thetford is on the A11 road between Norwich (28 miles) and London (86 miles). It is served by Thetford railway station, the 'one' running services between Norwich and Cambridge, and by Central Trains from Norwich to Liverpool (via Sheffield and Manchester or via Birmingham and Manchester. From Cambridge, regular services run to London King's Cross. National Cycle Route 13 links Thetford to Gately, near Fakenham. The A11 is a major road in England. ... Norwich (IPA: //) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The buildings on platform 2 Thetford railway station is a railway station serving the town of Thetford in the English county of Norfolk. ... ‘one’ is the brand name of London Eastern Railway Ltd, which operates local, suburban and express services from London Liverpool Street in the City of London to East and North London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, otherwise known as the Greater Anglia network. ... Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... Liverpool skyline. ... Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... unga bunga This article is about the English city. ... This GNER train serving Kings Cross is named White Rose after the traditional symbol of Yorkshire. ...

Sister Towns

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References

1. ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Retrieved December 2, 2005.

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External links

• Map sources for Thetford.
• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Thetford.
• Thetford Tourism website