Sygate or Southgate?
The article from the Aylsham Local History Society talks about the derivation of the name 'Sygate' or 'Sea gatway'.
It is sometimes argued that the name Sygate is a corruption of the name Southgate but as the people of Cawston and Sygate know this cannot be the case since Sygate is actually north of Cawston. The name Sygate is thought to be taken from the Old English word 'sic' meaning a water course or runnel. Birds Lane is indeed a heavily ditched for an extended run and wet in places even in dry summer (page 252). For more detailed information about this click on the file.
Naomi Horrocks
<a href="http://aylshamhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Journal9.7.pdf">Sea gatway or Sygate<br /><br /></a>Aylsham Local History Society Journal and Newsletter Volume 9 No 7
Maggie and William Vaughan-Lewis
Revival of Plough Sunday 8 January 2023
On Sunday 8 January 2023 people gathered at the Plough Inn in Sygate to follow a number of ploughs to be blessed at St Agnes Church in Cawston. Because modern ploughs are much larger than they were when this tradition was flourishing the blessing took place in the yard at Church Farm. Plough Monday marked the date of ploughing for the spring crops and was the day agricultural workers returned to work after the Christmas period. The plow was dragged through the village, contributions were collected to support the poor of the parish and the plow was blessed at the church. Plow candles were lit and kept burning throughout January. <br /><br /><br />To find out more about this tradition click <a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/276" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Plough Sunday">here</a>
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/42c34f42aa0ab54c730d948e9813e74e.png" width="364" height="272" /><br /><br /><br />To see more photographs of the procession and blessing click on files to view full screen<br /><br />To watch a short video in which Rev Andrew Whitehead talks about Plough Sunday/Monday click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uqF138gLfU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></p>
Naomi Horrocks
15 century to 19 century
<a href="https://norfolktalesmyths.com/tag/plough-monday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tales and myths about Plough Monday in Norfolk</a>
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....
Click on file to view full screen....
1993
Ivan Purdy
Vic Purdy
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/66" title="Sygate/Southgate" target="_blank">Sygate/Southgate</a></span>
S/Heritage Centre
Cawston Weather 1987
<p>Sygate Road</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/dbac60f44358ae9123cd1a433d8bdd04.jpg" /></p>
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Winter January 1987 Sygate Road.
and was also the year of the great storm of October 15th & 16th, a very violent storm with hurricane-force winds causing casualties, fallen trees and schools were closed....
Click on file for more info and full screen:
1987
Ivan Purdy
Cawston Winter 1947
<img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/681ee90ecdc7ac4fc38e7e2ac9af9d74.jpg" width="365" height="387" />
Cawston Winter 1947 photos....
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1947
Farming
<p>Binder Corn Harvesting for Threshing</p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/3a179da137363b2084785cb680fef10e.jpg" /></p>
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A visitor to Cawston School in the 1950's remarked that he was pleased to hear the long summer vacation referred to as the Harvest Holiday. At that time it lasted five weeks; originally it was four, during the month of August....
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Mrs Jane Gaskin.
Mr John Katt.
Edward Pye.
Peggy Payne.
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/118" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Beerhouse Farm">Beerhouse Farm</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/135" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Jimmy Payne Church Farm">Jimmy Payne Church Farm</a></span></p>
Photos and Video from above
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/cae9bd461dd41087b3ffcfbce4569aa8.png" width="315" height="211" /></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/dbc60d2fc9af041bbf41b501ffa0a38d.mp4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Video">Cawston Church and Village Drone Video by Mark Daniels</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Click on above link to see video:</span></p>
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Photos and Video from above including photos from church tower.
Click on files to view photos full screen....
<p>Ivan Purdy</p>
<p>Victor Purdy</p>
<p>Clifford Harmer</p>
<p>Peggy Payne</p>
<p>Frank Hannibal - USA</p>
<p>Tony Hilton</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/dbc60d2fc9af041bbf41b501ffa0a38d.mp4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Drone Video by Mark Daniels.">Drone Video by Mark Daniels</a></span></p>
Mills at Cawston
<p>Part of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Remembers Project;</a></span></p>
<iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 480px; height: 280px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ka8e-qD96E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<p>It was quite unique for 2 windmills to be built on the same site as the twin mills at Sygate being only about 50 yards apart and linked by railway lines, built possibly at the same time as the 4 Mill Cottages by the road in front of the mills and bearing the date 1853-JSH.</p>
<p>One mill had a white cap and the other a black.</p>
<p>The grain for milling would come from local farmers and from Cawston railway station, it was transported from the station to the the mill by horse and cart, the horses being stabled at the mill. The black mill was on right of the white mill looking from the road and was bought by Mr Stanley Oakes from Mr Bamber Stackwood. (also coal merchant).</p>
<p>The Black Mill was taken down in 1955 and the brick rubble used for a private road way (Jerry's Loke) off the Booton road in Cawston, the Mill was partly pulled down by way of a girder being placed on the inside across a window, a rope was then attached and tied to a motorized timber drudge, (winch) demolition was carried out by Taylor Bros of Wroxham. the white mill would have had the same fate but was saved by the rope breaking.</p>
<p>In the 1970's, the 2 left cottages were made into one.</p>
<p>In 2003 the white mill was converted to holiday accommodation.<br /><br />Click on file to view full screen....</p>
<p>More information can be found at the Heritage Centre.</p>
<p>Ivan Purdy</p>
<p>Alan Lee</p>
<p>Vic and Sally Purdy</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media Projects East</a></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span>Neil Storey<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p>
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Sygate/Southgate
<p>How it was 1992</p>
<p><span>Click on files to view full screen....</span></p>
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/cd4ece1fb3ce569af5d22a6cec1ef50b.jpg" width="417" height="268" /></p>
<p>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 the ancient inscription on the Plough Gallery in St. Agnes' Church, is Sygate. Some say it comes from Syk, a very old family name, while others find its origin in Sulh-geath, meaning a "Plough Lane" or rough track (Anglo Saxon).</p>
<p>The suffix "gate" is no mystery, for we have "gates" on the outskirts of many villages and towns, their names dating from Viking times when the Danish invaders settled near earlier Saxon dwelling places. In most Scandinavian countries a street is called "gate" or "gata" ;</p>
<p>I have a Icelandic friend who lives in a street in Reykjavic called Sudagate - i.e. Southgate!</p>
<p>John Kett 1989</p>
<p>Note:</p>
<p>Also see <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road</a></span>, the road from Cawston to Sygate/Southgate and the history page regarding the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Mills - Sygate - Southgate" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/84" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mills</a></span>.</p>
<p>We have a Birds Lane named after Mr Bird the farmer,</p>
<p>Heydon Lane leading to the Heydon road and Beerhouse road leading to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Beerhouse Farm" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beerhouse Farm</a></span> and Oulton.</p>
<p>Click on file to view....</p>
Mr John Katt
Ivan Purdy
Miranda Pointer
Vic Purdy
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/54" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chapel Street/Prince of Wales road</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Mills - Sygate - Southgate" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/84" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mills</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/290" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Sygate/Southgate Road Widening">Sygate/Southgate Road Widening</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Beerhouse Farm" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beerhouse Farm</a></span></p>
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Memories of Cawston
<p>Part of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Remembers Project:</a></span><br /><br /><iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 476px; height: 281px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/10CzLdcD1Eg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
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<iframe width="500" height="281" style="width: 477px; height: 280px;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YcdwM3j89iI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
<p><strong>Memories of Cawston: Click on Files to view full screen....</strong></p>
<p>1/Life at Ratcatchers Row in the 1950s</p>
<p> by Michael Yaxley. Related Link: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>2/Days Gone By by John Kett</p>
<p>3/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/333" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Denny's Memories">Denny's Memories</a></span> by Dennis W. Easton</p>
<p>4/Shoping in Cawston 1950's by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>5/Life in Cawston 1870-1900 (Victorian Age)</p>
<p>by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>6/Christmas in Cawston 1950's and 1960's by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p>7/Cawston Remembered 1935 to 1944 by Bill Sampson</p>
<p> Related Link: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Bill Sampson" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/58" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Second World War by Bill Sampson</a></span></p>
<p>8/Cawston 1864 supplied by Peter Kett</p>
<p>9/At the turn of the century by Douglas Hamley</p>
<p>10/A Stroll Through The Centuries by John Kett</p>
<p>11/Down Memory Lane Early 1900s Stanley Oakes</p>
<p>12/Cawston 1912 - 1920 as Remembered by Ivy Lake</p>
<p>13/Memories 1914 - 1920 by O.N.Thrower (Buster)</p>
<p>14/Memories of old Cawston 1930s by Alfred Easton</p>
<p>15/ Do you remember the 1930s by Sid Dack</p>
<p>16/Cawston in 1965 by the W.I.</p>
<p> Click on file to view full screen....</p>
<p>Michael Yaxley. John Kett. Dennis W Easton. Bill Sampson.</p>
<p>Peter Kett. Mr Douglas Hamley. Mr Stanley Oakes. Ivy Lake.<br /><br />O.N. Thrower ( Buster). Alfred Easton. Cawston W.I.</p>
<p>Mrs Jane Fuller.</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe</p>
<p><a title="Media Projects East" href="http://www.mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Media Projects East</span></a></p>
<p>Neil Storey</p>
<p>For more memories see links under:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Wesleyan Reform Chapel" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/43" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wesleyan Reform Chapel</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="War Times Memories/Diaries" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/58" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">War Times Memories/Diaries</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michael Yaxley</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Band" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/97" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cawston Band</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="School Memories" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/60" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">School Memories</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/14" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Memories of Cawston">Memories of Cawston</a></span> (Collection<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span>)</span></span></p>