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1249-1618 Estate subdivided
into several Manors |
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1618 Newhall & Downham
Ixworth Manors |
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1804 Manors consolidated |
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1950 Houses built for
forestry workers, later |
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ad1990 |
500,000-8000bc
Palaeolithic flints found |
700bc Iron Age occupation site, coins, iron hoard |
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14?? Newhall
Manor passed to knightly |
acquired by Robert Wright of Kilverstone |
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1914-1918 WWI Downham Hall used by military |
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Scandinavian design houses for foresters |
ad1960 |
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1982 Sale of Forestry houses to tenants |
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Shardelow family of Barton Mills |
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1973 Felling and replanting of the Lime Avenue |
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8000bc |
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1625-1642 John Rous wrote a diary (Minister) |
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1917 Colonel Mackenzie gave up his occupancy |
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1952 Queen Elizabeth II Coronation |
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Iceni - coins found |
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1433 Newhall Manor sold to Countess of Stafford |
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of Downham Hall to his brother |
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1994 New Breckland Club built |
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1066 Norman invasion - local changes |
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prior to 1536 The Priory acquired the advowson |
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1960 Building land leased to outsiders |
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ad1980 |
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43-425ad Roman site,
scatter finds, pottery |
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1830 Estate sold to Lord William John Fredrick |
1918 Estate sold for £75,310 to land speculators |
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1954 Village Hall opened |
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1995 village celebrates VE Day |
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1446/7 Newhall Manor granted to Thomas |
1538 Downham Ixworth manor granted to |
1668 Sand flood at Downham (published account) |
Powlett, later 3rd Duke of Cleveland |
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1939-1945 WWII Army camp and ammunition |
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1975 Village Green registered as common land |
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7000-5000bc Mesolithic
flints found |
700bc |
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Heigham of Higham Hall, Gazeley |
Richard Codington
by Henry VIII |
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ad1900 |
depot established at Santon Downham |
ad1950 |
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1998 Peddars Way Housing Assoc take over |
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1086 Little Domesday Book - entered in as |
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1836
Alterations made to Downham Hall by the |
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care of rented Forestry Houses |
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"Lands of St. Edmunds" |
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ad1700 |
architect Lewis Vulliamy (1791-1871) of London |
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1998 Anglian Water take over responsibility for |
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440ad Saxon,
dress fitting, broach, |
1086 Abbot Baldwin (Frenchman from Chartres) |
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1249 Mersey Manor acquired by Adam De Mereshaye |
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1539 Downham Monkshall Manor granted to |
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1860 Poem published "A Ramble over the |
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ad1940 |
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ad1970 |
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water supply - piped from Brandon |
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pottery, grave stone found |
granted the estate, with other land to brother
Fredo |
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Sir Thomas Kytson of Hengrave. Resold in 1540 |
Downham Estate" by George West |
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6000-4500bc Neolithic Axe,
knife, flints |
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1250-1251 Downham Ixworth Manor granted to |
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to
William Maltyward whose family lived there |
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1924 Estate acquired by Forestry Commission |
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1999 Old water tower demolished |
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630-679ad St Etheldreda, daughter of King of |
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Ixworth Priory by Christiana deWalsham |
until 1658 |
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1871 Estate sold to Edward Mackenzie |
Start made on planting Thetford Forest |
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1967 New Forestry Commission HQ built |
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East Anglia owned land here (Domesday Book) |
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mid 1400s Mersey Manor owned by John Bagot |
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1778 Estate purchased by Charles Sloane |
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1987 The Great Storm (16 October) |
1999 Removal of sand bank from the 'sandflood' |
2700bc Bronze Age pottery
beaker found |
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??? Lands pass to De Vere family, Earls of Oxford |
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1276 Newhall Manor held by John De Lovetot |
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1569 Downham Ixworth Manor sold to Heigham |
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Cadogan, 3rd Lord
Cadogan, later 1st Earl |
1880 Estate passed to William Dalzie Mackenzie |
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1977 village celebrates Queen's Silver Jubilee |
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in Hall Lane |
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in return for Knight service to the Abbey |
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of Cadogan, Chelsea House, Cadogan Square, London |
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1925-1927 Downham Hall demolished |
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1877 Queen's Jubilee - Douglas Firs planted |
Forestry Commission headquarters established |
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1978 Village Hall extended to create Village Club |
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1999 Santon Downham took part in 22villages project |
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866ad
Vikings invade (Pagan Burial site - |
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Downham Hall now occupied by William's |
in Santon Downham |
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1969 Fishing rights retained by villagers |
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broaches and sword found) |
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younger son Colonel Edward Philippe Mackenzie |
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