Snettisham - Norfolk - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

The civil parish has an area of 28.03 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 2374 in 1097 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

RSPB Snettisham, on the coast of The Wash some 2 miles to the west of Snettisham village, is a nature reserve in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It consists of bird lagoons and bird observation hides, including a rotary hide.
The Snettisham coast around the reserve is often said to be "where Norfolk stares at Lincolnshire". This is because, unlike much of Norfolk's coast where the sea stretches to the horizon, Snettisham looks across the square-mouthed estuary of The Wash at the county of Lincolnshire, only 15 miles away. The River Ingol runs to the south of the village upon which stands the now unused Snettisham watermill.

nb the mill is now being restored..

Though traces of the station and railway line can still be seen the service which was opened in 1862 was terminated in 1969.

St. Mary's Church in the village has a 14th century, 172 ft. high spire. Nikolaus Pevsner called it "perhaps the most exciting decorated church in Norfolk".

The Snettisham Hoard is a series of discoveries of Iron Age precious metal, including nearly 180 gold torques, 75 complete and the rest fragmentary, found in the area between 1948 to 1973. In 1985 there was also a find of Romano-British jewellery and raw materials buried in a clay pot in AD 155. Although this latter find has no direct connection with the nearby Iron Age finds, it may be evidence of a long tradition of gold- and silver-working in the area.

Snettisham has a complex entry in the Domesday book where it is divided in ownership between William de Warenne and the Bishop of Bayeux. Related berewicks are West Newton and Castle Rising, moreover Weston Longville is said to be in Snettisham's valuation. The name of the manor is spelt in four different ways, two very similar to the present pronunciation, one of Snesham and one of Nestesham.

Local people also remembered the tragic events of 1953.when a surge of water hit the coast and a caused widespread flooding and many deaths.
There was an exhibition in Snettisham, Norfolk on the 1st of February 2003. This was organised by the village events committee. It included the unveiling of a plaque in the village square near the War memorial on the following Sunday, and a showing of a film of the floods in the Memorial Hall. Local people who have some memory of the event flocked to the hall on the Friday to give their thoughts to a Radio Norfolk broadcast. a local person who rememberd flying over the area with the RAF immediately after the event, and the coast had disappeared: the usual obvious barrier between land and sea had been swept away.

The memorial plaque was unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh. The day was memorable as it was very snowy and the poor weather hit the M11 which meant that some people were trapped in their vehicles, along with the day's newspapers

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