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Fakenham

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Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. [1]

65 relations: Adam Tann, Air Training Corps, Anglo-Saxons, Army Cadet Force, Baden-Powell Scouts' Association, Barry Lyndon, Brass band, Broadland (UK Parliament constituency), Chelmsford City F.C., Civil parish, Cricket, Cromer, Dereham, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Domesday Book, England cricket team, Fakenham Academy, Fakenham East railway station, Fakenham Racecourse, Fakenham West railway station, Farmers' market, First Norfolk & Suffolk, George Edwards (British politician), Great Eastern Railway, Great Ryburgh, Hempton, Henry VIII of England, King's Lynn, Lynx (bus company), Market town, Member of parliament, Mid-Norfolk Railway, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, Non-metropolitan district, Norfolk, Norfolk Orbital Railway, North Norfolk, Norwich, Norwich City F.C., Peep Show (TV series), Peter Parfitt, Printing, Restricted Service Licence, River Wensum, Robert Seppings, Rossi Jarvis, Royal yacht, Ryan Jarvis, Secondary modern school, ..., Sheltered housing, Sheringham, Shipbuilding, Simon Dring, Stagecoach in Norfolk, Stanley Kubrick, The Knowhere Guide, The Salvation Army, Thomas Miller (bookseller), Track bed, United Kingdom census, 2001, United Kingdom census, 2011, Walsingham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Wymondham. Expand index (15 more) »

Adam Tann

Adam John Tann (born 12 May 1982) is an English footballer who plays as a defender.

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Air Training Corps

The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a British volunteer-military youth organisation, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Air Force.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Army Cadet Force

The Army Cadet Force (ACF) is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army.

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Baden-Powell Scouts' Association

The Baden-Powell Scouts' Association (B-PSA) is a worldwide youth organisation originating in the United Kingdom, with friendly relationships with similar traditional scouting organisations in various countries.

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Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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Broadland (UK Parliament constituency)

Broadland is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Keith Simpson of the Conservative Party.

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Chelmsford City F.C.

Chelmsford City Football Club is a football club based in the city of Chelmsford, Essex, England.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cromer

Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk.

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Dereham

Dereham, also known as East Dereham, is a town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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Fakenham Academy

Fakenham Academy (formerly Fakenham High School and College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located over two sites in Fakenham, Norfolk, England.

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Fakenham East railway station

Fakenham East railway station was a railway station in the market town of Fakenham in the English county of Norfolk.

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Fakenham Racecourse

Fakenham Racecourse is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located in Fakenham, Norfolk, England NR21 7NY.

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Fakenham West railway station

Fakenham West railway station was a station in Norfolk.

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Farmers' market

A farmers' market is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.

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First Norfolk & Suffolk

First Eastern Counties, trading as First Norfolk & Suffolk, is a bus operator providing services in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern England.

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George Edwards (British politician)

Sir George Edwards OBE (5 October 1850 – 6 December 1933) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Great Eastern Railway

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia.

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Great Ryburgh

Great Ryburgh is a village in the English county of Norfolk.

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Hempton

Hempton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is south west of Fakenham, north west of Norwich and north east of London. The village straddles the A1065 between Fakenham and Swaffham. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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King's Lynn

King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn, is a seaport and market town in Norfolk, England, about north of London, north-east of Peterborough, north north-east of Cambridge and west of Norwich.

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Lynx (bus company)

Lynx is a bus company based in King's Lynn and operating services across west and north Norfolk and eastern Cambridgeshire.

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Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mid-Norfolk Railway

The Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway, one of the longest in Great Britain.

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Middlesex County Cricket Club

Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway

The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire and north Norfolk.

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Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Norfolk Orbital Railway

The Norfolk Orbital Railway — as the Holt, Melton Constable and Fakenham Railway Company — is a community railway project in Norfolk, England, to investigate and with others put in place a cohesive public transport structure for all who live and work in Norfolk as well as visitors.

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North Norfolk

North Norfolk is a local government district in Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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Norwich

Norwich (also) is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies approximately north-east of London.

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Norwich City F.C.

Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries or City) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk.

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Peep Show (TV series)

Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

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Peter Parfitt

Peter Parfitt (born Peter Howard Parfitt, 8 December 1936 in Billingford, Breckland, Norfolk, England) is an English former cricketer.

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Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.

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Restricted Service Licence

A UK Restricted Service Licence (often called an RSL), is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event.

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River Wensum

The River Wensum is a chalk fed river in Norfolk, England and a tributary of the River Yare despite being the larger of the two rivers.

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Robert Seppings

Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect.

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Rossi Jarvis

Ross Anthony "Rossi" Jarvis (born 11 March 1988) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dereham Town in the Isthmian League.

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Royal yacht

A royal yacht is a ship used by a monarch or a royal family.

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Ryan Jarvis

Ryan Robert Jarvis (born 11 July 1986) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for King's Lynn.

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Secondary modern school

A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, from 1944 until the 1970s under the Tripartite System and still persist in Northern Ireland, where they are usually referred to simply as Secondary schools, and in areas of England, such as Buckinghamshire (where they are referred to as community schools), Lincolnshire, Wirral Medway and Kent where they are called high schools.

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Sheltered housing

Sheltered housing is a term covering a wide range of rented housing for older and/or disabled or other vulnerable people.

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Sheringham

Sheringham (population 7,367) is an English seaside town within the county of Norfolk in the United Kingdom.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Simon Dring

Simon John Dring, born January 11, 1945, is an award-winning British foreign correspondent, television producer, and presenter.

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Stagecoach in Norfolk

Stagecoach in Norfolk (formerly Norfolk Green) was a bus operator based in King's Lynn in Norfolk, England.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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The Knowhere Guide

The Knowhere Guide is a crowd-sourced online guide to English towns.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion.

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Thomas Miller (bookseller)

Thomas Miller (14 August 1731 – 25 July 1804) was a leading English bookseller.

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Track bed

The track bed or trackbed is the groundwork onto which a railway track is laid.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Walsingham

Walsingham is a village (actually two conjoined villages: Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham) in the English county of Norfolk.

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Wells-next-the-Sea

Wells-next-the-Sea is a port on the North Norfolk coast of England.

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Wymondham

Wymondham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England, southwest of Norwich, just off the A11 road from Norwich to London which now bypasses the town.

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Fakenham, Norfolk.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakenham

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