Aylsham - Aylsham Aylsham is a historic market town on the River Bure in North Norfolk, England. The river rises near Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea, although it was only navigable after 1779, allowing corn, coal and timber to be brought up river. Aylsham is thought to have been founded by an Anglo Saxon thane called Aegel around 500 AD. The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Elesham and Ailesham, said to be derived from Aegel's Ham, with a population of about 1,000. Until the 15th century, the linen and worsted industry was important here, as well as in North Walsham and Worstead, and 'Aylsham Web' or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of Edward II.
Humphrey Repton - his designs (including 'before' and 'after' sketches). Repton designed the gardens of many of England's foremost stately homes: Bayham Abbey Burley-on-the-Hill Clumber Park Cobham Hall Dyrham Park Endsleigh House Grovelands Park Harewood House Hatchlands Park Longleat House Plas Newydd Rode Hall Royal Pavilion at Brighton Sheringham Park Tatton Park Uppark West Wycombe Woburn Abbey Repton died in 1818 and is buried in the churchyard at Aylsham in Norfolk..
Blickling Hall - stately home in Norfolk, England, in the village of Blickling north of Aylsham, and in the care of the National Trust. See: Historic houses in England.
Bure Valley Railway - in Norfolk, within The Broads National Park. The Railway runs from Wroxham to Aylsham (9 miles) and is Norfolk's longest narrow gauge heritage railway, with both steam and diesel hauled locomotives. It stops at Brampton, Buxton Lammas and Little Hautbois. There are 17 bridges, including a 105 ft long girder bridge over the River Bure at Buxton Lammas. The history of this railway starts in 1877 when the East Norfolk Railway from Norwich to Cromer is opened, with an extension from Wroxham to Aylsham, opened in 1880. The ENR was taken over in 1882 by the Great Eastern Railway which, in its turn, was taken over by the London & North Eastern Railway in 1923. The railway was nationalised in 1948. In 1952, the passenger service stopped, and in 1955 the.
Bure Valley Way - England. It goes alongside the Bure Valley Railway, a heritage railway from Wroxham to Aylsham..
The Broads National Park - Goose. Larger birds include Grey Heron, Cormorant, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk and Bittern. The scarce Cetti's Warbler breeds in the Broads, and Britain's only breeding Common Cranes are found in the area. Among the rare insects is the Norfolk hawker, a dragonfly. Some of the broads are surrounded by fens, i.e. reed and sedge beds. The broads range in size from small pools to the vast expanses of Hickling Broad, Barton Broad and Breydon Water. They are unevenly distributed; there are far more broads in the northern half of Broadland, and out of 50 or so broads, only 13 are open to navigation. A further three -- Martham Broad, Sutton Broad and Womack Water -- have navigable channels. Hoveton Little Broad and Horsey Mere are not available for boating in autumn and winter..
Coltishall - a centre of the malting industry. Many Norfolk wherries (trading ships) were built here. At one time, it was possible to navigate the River Bure (pronounced 'Burr') all the way to Aylsham, but now the limit of navigation is just south of Coltishall. RAF Coltishall played an important role in World War II..
River Bure - county of Norfolk, England, most of it in The Broads National Park. The Bure rises near Aylsham which was the original head of navigation. Nowadays, the head of navigation is 10 miles downstream at Coltishall Bridge. After Aylsham Lock and Burgh Bridge, the Bure passes through Buxton Lamas, Coltishall, Belaugh, Wroxham, Horning, Ludham Bridge, past St. Benet's Abbey, though Oby, Acle, Stokesby, along the northern border of the Halvergate Marshes, through Mautby, Runham and Great Yarmouth where it meets Breydon Water and flows into the sea at Gorleston. It has two tributaries, the River Thurne and the River Ant. There is also Muck Fleet which connects the Trinity Broads (Ormesby, Rollesby and Filby Broad) to the main network. The Norfolk wherry used on the River Bure is the Bure wherry (54.
Weavers Way - 56 m (90 km) long and goes from Cromer to Great Yarmouth. It passes through Hanworth, Aylsham, Stalham, Potter Heigham, Thurne and Halvergate..
Norfolk, England - century and later became the "north folk" and the "south folk," hence, "Norfolk" and Suffolk." The regional capital of Norfolk is the City of Norwich. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Other towns and villages 2 Places of interest 3 Other related articles Other towns and villages Acle, Attleborough, Aylsham Bacton, Banham, Beeston,Belton, Blakeney, Bradenham, Brancaster, Bressingham, Briston, Brooke, Brumstead (Brunstead), Brundall, Burgh Castle, Burnham Market, Buxton Lamas Caister, Castle Acre, Castor, Chedgrave, Clenchwarton, Cley next the Sea, Cockley Cley, Coltishall, Cromer Dersingham, Dilham, Diss, Downham Market East Dereham, East Ruston Fakenham Gorleston, Great Yarmouth Halvergate, Hanworth, Happisburgh, Harleston, Heacham, Hemsby, Holkham, Holme-next-the-Sea, Holt, Norfolk, England, Horning, Horsey, Hoveton, Hunstanton King's Lynn Langham, Loddon, Lower Street, Horning, Norfolk, Lower Street, Mundesley, Norfolk, Ludham, Ludham Bridge Merton, Middleton, Morston, Morton, Mundesley New Houghton,.
Norfolk wherry - sailed with fewer crew, and it had limited manoeuvrability and lacked speed. Wherries came in different sizes, according to the river they used. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal Wherry was max. 50' x 12' x 3'6". The River Ant Wherry was 50' x 12' max. The River Bure Wherry was 54'x 12' 8", but for the Aylsham Navigation, i.e. the upper reaches of the Bure, the boats had to be 12' 6" x 3'6" maximum. On the southern Broads, steam wherries were used. The River Waveney Wherry was 70' x 16' max. Wherries could be propelled by hand, if need be, by using a quant pole. A special wherry wheelbarrow was used to unload cargo, e.g. stone, from the wherries. It was made from wood and strengthened with iron bands..
Worsted - The name derives from the village of Worstead [1] in Norfolk, England. The village became, along with North Walsham and Aylsham, a centre for the manufacture of yarn and cloth, after weavers from Flanders arrived in Norfolk in the 12th century. The yarn is well twisted and spun of long staple wool (though nowadays also medium and short fibres are used). The wool is combed so that the fibres lie parallel. The cloth has a hard, smooth texture, usually whipcord, gabardine or serge, and the usual weave is a twill weave. Worsted is also used for carpets, garments, hosiery and gloves. Contrast woolen.
List of towns in England - O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Abingdon, Accrington, Acton, Adlington, Alcester, Aldeburgh, Aldershot, Aldridge, Alford, Alfreton, Alnwick, Alsager, Alston, Alton, Altrincham, Amble, Amersham, Amesbury, Ampthill, Andover, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Arundel, Ashbourne, Ashburton, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Ashford, Ashington, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Ashton-under-Lyne, Askern, Aspatria, Atherstone, Attleborough, Axbridge, Axminster, Aylesbury, Aylsham B Bacup, Bakewell, Baldock, Banbury, Barking, Barnard Castle, Barnet, Barnoldswick, Barnsley, Barnstaple, Barrow-in-Furness, Barton-upon-Humber, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bath, Batley, Battle, Bawtry, Beaconsfield, Beaminster, Bebington, Beccles, Bedford, Bedlington, Bedworth, Beeston, Belper, Bentham, Berkhamsted, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Beverley, Bewdley, Bexhill-on-Sea, Bicester, Biddulph, Bideford, Biggleswade, Billericay, Bilston, Bingham, Birmingham, Bishop Auckland, Bishop's Castle, Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Waltham, Blackburn, Blackpool, Blandford Forum, Bletchley, Blyth, Bodmin, Bognor Regis, Bollington, Bolsover, Bolton, Borehamwood, Boston, Bottesford, Bourne, Bournemouth, Brackley, Bracknell, Bradford, Bradford-on-Avon, Bradley Stoke, Bradninch, Braintree, Brentford, Brentwood, Bridgnorth, Bridgwater, Bridlington,.
