Why visit Foulsham
Townapedia lists 3 museums and landmarks, 2 parks and trails, 4 places to eat and 1 attraction in and around town.
Highlights include Bintry Watermill, Mayfields Farm, Foulsham War Memorial and Foxley Wood.
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About Foulsham
Foulsham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 7.40 miles (11.91 km) north-east of Dereham and 16 miles (26 km) north-west of Norwich.
From the Wikipedia article Foulsham (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do1
Museums and landmarks3
Mayfields Farm
Monument and historic site · 1.5 mi
Traditional sheep breed farming and sheep dog training. Plans to plant a traditional orchard. Footpaths around north and south fields....
Reepham Road, Norwich
Parks, trails and playgrounds2
Restaurants and cafes4
History
The village has been the site of major Bronze Age discoveries, including a golden torc ploughed-up in 1846 and a hoard of 141 copper-socketed axeheads, discovered in 1953 and now in the care of Norwich Castle Museum.
In the Domesday Book, Foulsham is listed as a settlement of 103 households in the hundred of Eynesford. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of King William I. The worth of Foulsham is recorded as two churches, a mill, twelve cattle, four hundred pigs, fifty goats and 13 sesters of honey.
Old Hall Farm was built in the parish in the 16th-Century and was at one time the residence of Maj-Gen. Philip Skippon, a Parliamentarian commander at the Battle of Naseby.
In the Seventeenth Century, Foulsham was a thriving market place until a store of gunpowder exploded on the 15 June 1770 which led to a fire that consumed the whole market place.
Foulsham railway station opened in 1882 as a stop on the Great Eastern Railway line between Aylsham South and County School. The station closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts, with Foulsham's closest railway station today being Sheringham for Bittern Line services to Cromer and Norwich.
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RAF Foulsham opened in 1942 as an air-base for various squadrons of No. 3 Group and No. 100 Group RAF throughout the Second World War. On 28 July 1943, RAF Foulsham was the site of a forced landing by a B-17 Flying Fortress piloted by Lt-Col. John C. Morgan after a strategic bombing raid of Hanover. For his actions, Morgan was awarded the Medal of Honor. The airbase was retired in 1945 and the Ministry of Defence eventually sold the land in the 1980s.
From the History section of Foulsham on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Geography
According to the 2021 census, Foulsham has a population of 1,028 people which shows an increase from the 1,021 people recorded in the 2011 census.
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Churches and places of worship8
Schools, colleges and libraries1
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Getting there and nearby towns
Norwich Airport (NWI) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 14 miles away.
- East Dereham 8 mi southwest, about 12 min by car
- Bowthorpe 13 mi southeast, about 21 min by car
- Norwich 16 mi southeast, about 26 min by car
- North Walsham 16 mi east, about 26 min by car
- Overstrand 17 mi northeast, about 27 min by car
- Attleborough 18 mi south, about 29 min by car
- King's Lynn 26 mi west, about 42 min by car
- Thetford 27 mi southwest, about 44 min by car
- Diss 28 mi south, about 46 min by car
- Downham Market 29 mi southwest, about 46 min by car
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Photo credits
- Bintree Watermill Friday 9 April 2010, stavros1, CC BY 3.0
- North Elmham Castle, Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Queens Head, Foulsham, Norfolk, Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0
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