"Brome, Suffolk Brome is a village in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It lies on the A140 Norwich to Ipswich road around northwest of Eye and southeast of Diss near the border with Norfolk. The village is in the parish of Brome and Oakley and has been combined with the village of Oakley for centuries. The village church, dedicated to St Mary, is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk. It is a Grade II* listed building with a medieval core dating from the 12th century. A moated site near the church is a scheduled monument"
"of birth: Diss Diss is a market town and electoral ward in Norfolk, England, near the border with the East Anglian county of Suffolk. It has a population of 7,572 (2011). Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, round a ""mere"" covering and up to deep, although there is another of mud. The town takes its name from ""dic"" an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church, and a museum."
"Diss Diss is a market town and electoral ward in Norfolk, England, near the border with the East Anglian county of Suffolk. It has a population of 7,572 (2011). Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line from London to Norwich. The town lies in the valley of the River Waveney, round a ""mere"" covering and up to deep, although there is another of mud. The town takes its name from ""dic"" an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment. Diss has a number of historic buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church, and a museum. At the"
"from the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Coney Weston Coney Weston is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, within the St Edmundsbury district. It is a primarily rural residential town that has dormitory town status. It is north of Ixworth and from Bury St Edmunds Coney Weston has a different meaning to other towns with the name Weston: it is not a true Weston (where the origin is from Old English ""west-tun"" ""western farm, village or estate"") but is a hybrid name, from Old Norse ""konungr"" ""king"" (cognate with Old English ""cyning"" ""king"") and Old English ""tun"" ""farm"". The name was"
"Other verbs do not conjugate whatsoever, and the present and perfect tense is often the same, and context is used. This is shown in ""Ee say he goo down-a poost arfice"" for ""he said he went to the post office"". Suffolk dialect The Suffolk dialect is a dialect spoken in the East Anglian county of Suffolk, England. Like many English dialects, it is rapidly disappearing, due to the advent of increasing social and geographical mobility and the influence of the media. Despite this, there are still many people who profess some knowledge of Suffolk dialect, and there is an increasing"
"Suffolk dialect The Suffolk dialect is a dialect spoken in the East Anglian county of Suffolk, England. Like many English dialects, it is rapidly disappearing, due to the advent of increasing social and geographical mobility and the influence of the media. Despite this, there are still many people who profess some knowledge of Suffolk dialect, and there is an increasing number of young speakers who have a distinctive Suffolk accent, if not a dialect. This dialect has several characteristics which are closely related to Norfolk dialect neighbouring in the north, yet it retains many specific and unique terms and phrases"
"pronounced, unlike West Country English. Suffolk dialect has a strong use of the glottal stop. This is shown in words like ""'amara"" and ""e'"" ('tomorrow' and 'it'). It is common for ""that"" to replace ""it"". The intonation of words in Suffolk is very peculiar. Words have a notable range of rise and fall in pitch and can often sound as if the speaker were asking a question. This is one of the main features that distinguish Suffolk speech from Norfolk, which is characterised by a distinctive 'drawl'. Verbs very rarely conjugate, the only exceptions being 'to be' and 'to have'."
"Brandon, Suffolk Brandon is a small town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is in the Forest Heath local government district. Brandon is located in the Breckland area on the border of Suffolk with the adjoining county of Norfolk. Surrounded by Forestry Commission and agricultural land it is considered a rural town. According to Eilert Ekwall (""The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names"") the likely origin of the name is ""Brandon, usually 'hill where broom grows'"", the earliest known spelling being in the 11th century when the town, gradually expanding up and along the rising"
"distinction, and states that ""...until very recently, all Norfolk English speakers consistently and automatically maintained the nose-knows distinction... In the 1940s and 1950s, it was therefore a totally unremarkable feature of Norfolk English shared by all speakers, and therefore of no salience whatsoever."" In a recent investigation into the English of the Fens, young people in west Norfolk were found to be maintaining the distinction, with back or in the ""toe"" set and central in the ""tow"" set, with the latter but not the former showing the influence of Estuary English. Walters reports the survival of the distinction in the"
"It sometimes occurs in Normandy as Torp(s) / Tourp(s) / ""-tourp"" or even ""-tour"", for instance : le Torp-Mesnil, le Tourp, Clitourps or Saussetour (Manche, ""Sauxetorp"" end 12th century, like Saustrup, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, former ""Saxtorppe"" and ""Saxtorf"", former ""Saxtorpe"" 1538 idem), all from Old Norse or Old English. Thorp Thorp is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village, from Old English (Anglo-Saxon)/Old Norse ""þorp"" (also ""thorp""). There are many place names in England with the suffix ""-thorp"" or ""-thorpe"". Most are in Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk but some are in Surrey. Old"
"Suffolk Suffolk () is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket and Felixstowe, one of the largest container ports in Europe. The county is low-lying with very few hills, and is largely arable land with the wetlands of the Broads in the north. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. By the fifth century, the"
"Stoke Ash Stoke Ash is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around six miles south of Diss, in 2011 its population was 314. The village shares a parish council with neighbouring Thwaite. It is located on the road from London to Norwich. The name 'Stoke', comes from 'stoc', which means a place or a secondary settlement in old English. The word 'Ash', comes from the Anglian word 'æsc', which means ash-tree. The name Ash was added to the name Stoke in the sixteenth century. In 1086 Stoke Ash was known"
"school and shopping times) to Downham Market, King's Lynn and Norwich. Flowing in an easterly direction the Little Ouse river is navigable through the town. Brandon Country Park Brandon, Suffolk Brandon is a small town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is in the Forest Heath local government district. Brandon is located in the Breckland area on the border of Suffolk with the adjoining county of Norfolk. Surrounded by Forestry Commission and agricultural land it is considered a rural town. According to Eilert Ekwall (""The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names"") the likely origin of"
"Thorp Thorp is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village, from Old English (Anglo-Saxon)/Old Norse ""þorp"" (also ""thorp""). There are many place names in England with the suffix ""-thorp"" or ""-thorpe"". Most are in Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk but some are in Surrey. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ""þorp"" is cognate with Low-Saxon ""trup""/""trop""/""drup""/""drop"" as in Handrup or Waltrop, Frisian ""terp"", German ""torp"" or ""dorf"" as in Düsseldorf, the 'Village of the river Düssel', and Dutch ""dorp"". It also appears in Lorraine place-names as ""-troff"" such as Grosbliederstroff (France) in front of Kleinblittersdorf (Germany)."
"them back in 2003. One of the council members were worried about Norfolk County becoming ""industrialized"" and ""unnatural."" Many leaders in Norfolk County envision the county as being an agricultural hub for Southern Ontario even by the middle of the 22nd century. The nearest high school is Valley Heights Secondary School which is to the northeast. Students from here grab the same high school bus as the students from Houghton. Courtland () is a village located in Norfolk County on Highway 3 between Delhi and Tillsonburg. This community was once known as Middleton; named after the more well-known community of"
"River Little Ouse The River Little Ouse is a river in the east of England, a tributary of the River Great Ouse. For much of its length it defines the boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk. It rises east of Thelnetham, very close to the source of the River Waveney - which flows eastwards while the Little Ouse flows west. The village with the curious name of Blo' Norton owes this name to the river - it was earlier known as ""Norton Bell-'eau"", from being situated near this 'fair stream'. In this area the river creates a number of important wetland"
"Stowmarket Stowmarket ( ) is a small market town in Suffolk, England, on the busy A14 trunk road between Bury St Edmunds to the west and Ipswich to the southeast. The town is on the main railway line between London and Norwich, and lies on the River Gipping, which is joined by its tributary, the River Rat, to the south of the town. The town takes its name from the Old English word ""stōw"" meaning ""principal place"", and was granted a market charter in 1347 by Edward III. A bi-weekly market is still held there today on Thursday and Saturday."
"which are distinctively recognisable. A closely related accent called the Essex dialect can still be heard in the speech of older people in Colchester and its surrounding towns in the northern parts of its corresponding county, where it has not yet quite been displaced by Estuary English or Cockney. Epenthesis occurs occasionally in Suffok dialect, as it does in Norfolk dialect. Words like ""film"" become ""filum"". ""Yod""-droppings is very common, so words like ""dew"", ""queue"", ""new"" and ""tune"" will become ""doo"", ""koo"", ""noo"" and ""toone"" respectively. Suffolk dialect is non-rhotic, i.e. the 'r' in ""hard"" and similar words is not"
"good include sewage discharge affecting most of the river, physical modification of channels, and poor management of agricultural and rural land adjacent to the river system. River Waveney The Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within the Broads. The source of the River Waveney is a ditch on the east side of the B1113 road between the villages of Redgrave, Suffolk and South Lopham, Norfolk. The ditch on the other side of the road is the source of the River Little Ouse which continues the county boundary and,"
"empirical evidence. Some of these grammatical features are often present also in neighbouring dialects, in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire etc. Some of them are merely the retention of older speech forms, once more extensively used throughout the country. Expressions such as 'abed' meaning 'in bed' (see below), still used in Norfolk in 2009, was undoubtedly used by Shakespeare. At parting, Norfolk people often say 'fare yer well', a local version of the old English expression 'fare thee well'. Archaic combinations may be found, as in the double negative, ""Oi hent nart gart none"", i.e. ""I haven't got any"". Extra words may be"
"so there was little dialect contact between the two sides of the Fens. The Norfolk dialect is a subset of the Southern English dialect group. Geographically it covers most of the County of Norfolk apart from Gorleston and other places annexed from Suffolk.The dialect is not entirely homogenous across the county, and it merges and blends across boundaries with other East Anglian counties. From the early 1960s, the ingress of large numbers of immigrants to the county from other parts of the country, notably from the environs of London, together with the dissemination of broadcast English, and the influence of"
"History of Norfolk Norfolk is a rural county in the East of England. Knowledge of prehistoric Norfolk is limited by a lack of evidence — although the earliest finds are from the end of the Lower Paleolithic period. Communities have existed in Norfolk since the last Ice Age and tools, coins and hoards such as those found at Snettisham indicate the presence of an extensive and industrious population. The Iceni tribe inhabited the region prior to the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD, after which they built roads, forts, villas and towns. Boudica's rebellion in 60 AD, caused by"
"associated with the use of the Norfolk dialect. Norfolk and good Norfolk and good is a humorous Norfolk phrase, which when spoken aloud takes on a whole new meaning - namely 'no fucking good'. The term has become synonymous with Sid Kipper and The Kipper Family who wrote a song entitled: 'Norfolk and Good'. Here is an example of one of the verses: ""Now our Norfolk turkeys are simply the best, They sure knock the stuffing out of the rest /And if you tried one I'm sure that you would /Agree that our turkeys are Norfolk and good."" This term"
"Forum', show it was originally known as Slutch Hole Lane). Attempts to restore the original name have been opposed by local historians; a residents' petition for a change was resisted in 1999. ""Slutch"" is an old English word meaning 'slushy' or 'muddy'; an alternative etymology is that it comes from the Dutch word for 'sluice', used in draining the fens. Besthorpe, Norfolk Besthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England, about a mile east of Attleborough, on the A11 road. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 561, increasing to 778"
"- and they were always signed ""The Boy John"". They reported the events in the Boy John's village, and, in addition to the Boy John - a farm worker - they featured as their main characters his Aunt Agatha, Granfar, and old Mrs. W, their neighbour. Most of the letters ended with a PS containing one of Aunt Agatha's aphorisms, which became famous throughout the county, such as ""Aunt Agatha she say: all husbands are alike, only they have different faces so you can tell 'em apart"". Others artists working in the Norfolk humorous tradition include Sid Kipper, the Nimmo"
"Duke of Norfolk school building appeared in the series. Local media includes the ""Glossop Advertiser"" newspaper owned by the ""Manchester Evening News"", the ""Glossop Chronicle"", the ""Buxton Advertiser"", the ""Glossop Gazette"", Glossop Community Radio and High Peak Radio. Glossop Glossop is a market town in the High Peak, Derbyshire, England, about east of Manchester, west of Sheffield and north of the county town, Matlock. Glossop is near Derbyshire's county borders with Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. It is between above mean sea level, and is a gateway to the Peak District National Park. Historically, the name Glossop"
"Nettlestead, Suffolk Nettlestead is a dispersed village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.The surrounding villages of Nettlestead include Somersham (the closest), Little Blakenham, Baylham, Barking, Willisham and Offton. In Nettlestead there are two manors: The Chace and High Hall. The Original Manor belonged to the Earls of Richmond; passed to Peter de Savoy, the Tiptofts, the Despencers and the Wentworths; and gave to the last the title of Baron. Nettlestead Hall (the Chace) was the Manor-house; retains an ancient gateway, bearing the arms of the Wentworths. From the 13th to the 16th centuries"
"Norfolk dialect The Norfolk dialect, also known as Broad Norfolk, is a dialect spoken by those living in the county of Norfolk in England. While less widely and purely spoken than in its heyday, the dialect and vocabulary can still be heard across the county, with some variations. It employs distinctively unique pronunciations, especially of vowels; and consistent grammatical forms that differ markedly from standard English. The Norfolk dialect is very different from the dialects on the other side of the Fens, such as in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. The Fens was traditionally an uninhabited area that was difficult to cross,"
"Thurning, Norfolk Thurning is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk and district of North Norfolk, near the border with Broadland. The population at the 2011 Census remained less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of Hindolveston. Thurning lies near Corpusty, seven miles (11 km) south of Holt, and nine miles (14 km) north-west of Aylsham. The parish has no substantial settlements and consists chiefly of farms and houses which are well spaced from each other. It includes the small hamlet of Craymere Beck. The soil is mixed, the subsoil clay and"
"Suffolk, under an individual named Turmod de Perham in the ""little"" Domesday Book for Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex during the reign of King William I (1066 - 1087). The village itself was listed as ""Perreham"" in the publication. Until the gradual standardization of English spelling in the last few centuries, English lacked any comprehensive system of spelling. Consequently, spelling variations in names are frequently found in early Anglo-Saxon and later Anglo-Norman documents, meaning that a person's name was often spelled several different ways over a lifetime. As such, different variations of the Parham surname usually have the same origin. Parham"
"Norfolk and good Norfolk and good is a humorous Norfolk phrase, which when spoken aloud takes on a whole new meaning - namely 'no fucking good'. The term has become synonymous with Sid Kipper and The Kipper Family who wrote a song entitled: 'Norfolk and Good'. Here is an example of one of the verses: ""Now our Norfolk turkeys are simply the best, They sure knock the stuffing out of the rest /And if you tried one I'm sure that you would /Agree that our turkeys are Norfolk and good."" This term also taps into a self-deprecating Norfolk humour -"
"he made, as he believed they had been extorted by force, adding, ""Villeins ye are still, and villeins ye shall remain"", and threatening vengeance upon those who had rebelled. The rebellions in Essex, Kent and London spread to many other English counties. In Norfolk, the rebellion started on 14 June, when a group of rebels from Suffolk reached the county, and spread westwards towards the Fens and north-eastwards towards Norwich and Yarmouth. As in other parts of the country there was widespread unrest, during which property and official documents were destroyed and several individuals were summarily executed. Henry le Despenser"
"and she added the following note: For Hingvar, see Ivar the Boneless. Hoxne Hoxne is an anciently-established village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about five miles (8 km) east-southeast of Diss, Norfolk and south of the River Waveney. The parish is irregularly shaped, covering the villages of Hoxne, Cross Street and Heckfield Green, with a 'tongue' extending southwards to take in part of the former RAF Horham airfield. In geology, Hoxne gives its name to the Hoxnian Stage, a British regional subdivision of the Pleistocene Epoch. The area around the village is of significant archaeological importance, as"