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Attleborough, the Glossary

Attleborough is a market town and civil parish located on the A11 between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England.^[1]

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Market towns in Norfolk
Towns in Norfolk

A11 road (England)

The A11 is a major trunk road in England.

The assizes, or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court.

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Attleborough Academy

Attleborough Academy/Attleborough Academy Norfolk (AA/AAN) (formerly Attleborough High School) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Attleborough in the English county of Norfolk.

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Attleborough railway station

Attleborough railway station is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the market town of Attleborough, Norfolk.

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Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna da Silva (21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in,, and.

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Banham Poultry

Banham Poultry is a British poultry producer, based in Attleborough, Norfolk, with an annual turnover of £100 million.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Brandon Francis

Brandon Francis (born Justin Christopher Davis; 9 March 1981) is a British actor, producer and screenwriter.

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Breckland District

Breckland is a local government district in Norfolk, England.

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Building society

A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization, which offers banking and related financial services, especially savings and mortgage lending.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Corn exchange

A corn exchange is a building where merchants trade grains.

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Danes (tribe)

The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, and the Scanian provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally 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 Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Edmund the Martyr

Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869) was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gaymer Cider Company

The Gaymer Cider Company produced and marketed cider.

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Geoffrey of Wells

Geoffrey of Wells (Galfridius Fontibus) was a mid-12th-century English hagiographer and a canon of Wells Cathedral, whose De Infantia Sancti Edmundi ("The infancy of Saint Edmund"), part of the burgeoning library of 12th-century legendaries concerning Saint Edmund, accounted the royal saint's childhood to have been full of adventure.

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George Freeman (politician)

George William Freeman (born 12 July 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Norfolk since 2010, he previously served as Minister for Science, Research and Innovation from September 2021 until his resignation in July 2022, and again from October 2022 until November 2023.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).

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John Fashanu

John Fashanu (born 18 September 1962) is an English television presenter and former professional footballer.

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Justin Fashanu

Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu (19 February 1961 – 2 May 1998) was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997.

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Kray twins

Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 193320 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 19331 October 2000) were English organised crime figures, and identical twin brothers from Haggerston, who were prominent from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968.

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Malcolm Arnold

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer.

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Market town

A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city.

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Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is a Protestant Christian denomination in Britain, and the mother church to Methodists worldwide.

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Michaelmas

Michaelmas (also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a Christian festival observed in many Western Christian liturgical calendars on 29 September, and on 8 November in the Eastern Christian traditions.

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Mid Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by George Freeman, a Conservative.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town. Attleborough and Norwich are towns in Norfolk.

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Old Buckenham

Old Buckenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, approximately south-west of Norwich. Attleborough and Old Buckenham are Breckland District and civil parishes in Norfolk.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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RAF Deopham Green

Royal Air Force Deopham Green or more simply RAF Deopham Green is a former Royal Air Force station located near Deopham Green north of Attleborough, Norfolk, England.

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RAF Old Buckenham

Royal Air Force Old Buckenham or more simply RAF Old Buckenham is a former Royal Air Force station located south east of Attleborough, Norfolk, England which was used during the Second World War by the United States for the strategic bombing campaign against Germany.

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Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex

Robert Radcliffe, 10th Baron Fitzwalter, 1st Earl of Sussex, KG, KB, PC (c. 148327 November 1542), also spelt Radclyffe, Ratcliffe, Ratcliff, etc., was a prominent courtier and soldier during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, who served as Chamberlain of the Exchequer and Lord Great Chamberlain.

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Rood screen

The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture.

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Saxons

The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany.

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Shepton Mallet

Shepton Mallet is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England, some southwest of Bath, south of Bristol and east of Wells.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Thetford

Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. Attleborough and Thetford are Breckland District, civil parishes in Norfolk, market towns in Norfolk and towns in Norfolk.

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Turnpike trust

Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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William the Conqueror

William the Conqueror (Bates William the Conqueror p. 33– 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wymondham

Wymondham is a market town and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. Attleborough and Wymondham are civil parishes in Norfolk, market towns in Norfolk and towns in Norfolk.

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Wymondham College

Wymondham College is a coeducational day and boarding school in Morley, near Wymondham, Norfolk, England.

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Youth center

A youth center or youth centre, often called youth club, is a place where young people can meet and participate in a variety of activities, for example table football, association football (US soccer, UK football), basketball, table tennis, video games, occupational therapy and religious activities.

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References

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

Also known as Attleborough, Norfolk, St Josephs Junior School.

, Wymondham College, Youth center, 2001 United Kingdom census, 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2011 United Kingdom census.

Attleborough, the Glossary

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See also

Market towns in Norfolk

Towns in Norfolk

References