Roads + Eastgate and Sygate/Southgate

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Roads + Eastgate and Sygate/Southgate

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Photos and some history for the Roads in Cawston + Eastgate & Sygate/Southgate.

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Aylsham Road:
The Road from Cawston to Aylsham, the B1145: Leaving Cawston. The first right is Cooks Hill and was originally known as Stocks Hill, the stocks were in this area, probably on the site of the new houses built in 2001 opposite the Post Office, joining…

Booton Road/Goose Pie Lane
A walk along the road to Booton - "Booton Green Lane" as many of us know it is a sentimental journey, recalling the first time I passed. that way in April, 1952, when the banks were bright with primroses and violets and other flowers. At that time…

Back Lane
Photo: Back Lane, Norwich & Brandiston Road Early 1960’s
Photo taken from Church Tower.

Snippets from Cawston’s Past:

Back Lane, Cawston - There is an interesting theory concerning this stout name. It is that the back lane was the division…

Chapel Street/Prince of Wales Road
Chapel Street: History of Chapel St/Prince of Wales Rd from the Parish Magazine, January 1995 by Dennis W. Easton. First of all there were the Mills at Sygate driven by the wind when my grandfather left school in the 1860's he went to work at the…

High Street/Market Hill
Photos and Memories: The High Street: Firstly we had the main pub on the Market Place, a Mrs Gaskin kept this for years, she was May Purdy's grandmother.... Click on file to view full screen....

Holt - Norwich Road
Old County directories refer to the Woodrow as being one of Cawston's three "scattered hamlets". along with Eastgate and Sygate. There is much to interest the local historian in the anecdotes concerning this area. Many of us remember the impressive…

Eastgate
For more info see Files: File 1/ Eastgate Photos.... File 2/ Life at the Ratcatchers Row. Eastgate by Michael Yaxley.... File 3/ Rough Guide Map.... Roads Info: Rodwell Corner:Major Hubert Rodwelllived here. Easton Way: Alfred Eastonran Easton…

New Street.
New street leading to Church Lane and Ames Court - Named after the Rev Ames and famiy and Back Lane. New Street From Memory Lane Early 1900’s by Stanley Oakes. New Street - early 1900's: On the right coming from the Aylsham Road was Marshall…

Sygate/Southgate
Early last century some misguided surveyor working on the first 1-inch maps of this area decided to rename this hamlet "Southgate", and so it appears on Ordnance Survey maps to this day. However, the name by which we know it, and which is included in…

Reepham Road
Reepham Road: The Substation at Salle Beck was first installed around 1935 when electricity came to Cawston.

In 2009 work started on the new substation for the offshore wind farm off Weybourne on the Norfolk Coast which was completed in…

Brandiston Road
Brandiston Road Photos

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Norwich/Haveringland Road
Norwich Road Photos including Guide Map.... Access to: William Bush Close. Jubilee Close. Bowls Club and the Cemetery. Click on file to view full screen....

Roman Road
A Roman road passed through Cawston. In the 1950's this ancient way was clearly visible on Cawston Heath and the neighbouring fields opposite Botany Bay Farm, running westwards towards the Holt-Norwich road. Aerial photographs show the road nearer…

Sygate/Southgate Road Widening
Photo album of 38 photos which are in the Heritage Centre donated by Ivan Purdy which include Shuck & details of as it was etc....

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Chapel Street Building Development
Photo album of 10 photos which are in the Heritage Centre donated by Ivan Purdy....

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Church Lane
Church Lane is off the High street which lead to the Church. New Street and Back Lane....

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Walk Down Chapel Street
Starting at the market place we have the Kings Head a popular spot after a
days work, Next door the shoemakers shop where Mr. Tom Pitchers earned his living....

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