In the book Hinton, Ian Ladbrooke’s Church Lithographs, Journal of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust, Vol. 8 (2025) all the lithographs produced by the father and son team in the 1820s/’30s, 600+ in total, are reproduced along with a modern photo taken from the same angle (as far as possible) and a few history notes; […]

The undulating landscape of south-west Norfolk, inviting the pastime on a clear day ‘How many church steeples can you see from here?’ begs the question ‘How has this landscape been created?’ It is certainly a glaciated landscape, although on the southern fringes of the glacial advances of the last glaciation, sometimes known as the Anglian

Today’s photo is taken from n old postcard showing the ‘Green’ (surviving) and buildings to the north, most of which survive. The local red brick reflects the iron content of the local topsoil clays as do the cliffs seen in the previous blog. Beyond the Green are the municipal gardens, more horticulturally interesting now than

The village of Boughton is situated in the agricultural area of south-west Norfolk. The middle tier of the county council government structure in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk. Around Boughton the area is characterised as quite a dense network of villages, to the north Fincham and Barton Bendish, to the east Oxbrough (with its famous

Borrowed from Hull Central Library, the above book makes very interesting reading. Published in 2014 it deals with landscapes encountered by the author, not as the sub-title suggests, all lost landscapes. However, the author’s approach makes it all the more meaningful because he connects the areas with his biography, with the landscape and geology central

Today’s photo shows a small ‘no-mow’ area in Pearson Park left for the first time this spring and summer and shows what Nature shows which would otherwise have been just an area of mown grass if not left. Glorious display of buttercups and thistles which, although they might seem uninviting, are a magnet for bees