Hanworth, Norfolk

Hanworth Hall is a large late 17th-century country house some 500 m to the south of the village of Hanworth, Norfolk, England. It is protected and recognised in the highest category of the three in the English statutory scheme, as a Grade I listed building.It is built of brick with stone dressings and a hipped (sloped) slate roof to a double-pile floor plan. The main eastern façade has 2 storeys plus a garret-style attic; it is 9 bays across. The central three slightly project, under a simple pediment.Hanworth Hall was seat of the Doughty family from the 15th to the 18th century. The hall was rebuilt after a fire of 1686, for Robert Doughty (1699/1700-1770). His son, Robert Lee Doughty, began to lay out the park in 1770. He valued input from friend, leading landscape designer Humphry Repton during 1789 to 1790. Within the remaining demense grounds is a notable Spanish chestnut tree which is thought to pre-date 1714.Robert died with no heirs and the estate passed to the children of his sister Catherine and her husband George Lukin, passing in turn to Philip Wynell Mayow (died 1845), then William Howe Windham, MP, (son of Vice Admiral William Lukin Windham) and then the latter's son William Frederick Windham. At the end of the century, his associated £20,000 alleged lunacy principally for a left-handed marriage and being profligate caused the property to be sold in 1900 to Joseph Gurney Barclay for his third son, Army officer Henry Barclay, aide-de-camp to Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1906–10) and George V (1910-25). Henry's descendant, and significant heir, Michael, was convicted and briefly gaoled in 2006 for wildlife offences.

Gur Beck is a minor watercourse which rises in the north of the English county of Norfolk. It is a tributary of the Scarrow Beck. Its spring is a little east of the North Norfolk village of West Beckham. It eventually merges after 4.2 miles (6.8 km) with the Scarrow Beck at Sustead. There is one watermill on the beck. This can be found in the village of Gresham, but is no longer in working order.

Metton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sustead, in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The village is 2.1 km west of Roughton, 5.2 km south of Cromer, 29.3 km north of Norwich and 11.2 km northwest of North Walsham. In 1931 the parish had a population of 86. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Sustead.The villages name origin is uncertain 'Meadow farm/settlement' or 'mowing farm/settlement', perhaps indicating a place where grass or another crop was mown. It has a church dedicated to St. Andrew and is part of the Diocese of Norwich.April Fabb, a missing schoolgirl, lived in the village and disappeared on a journey from here to Roughton in 1969.

April Fabb (22 April 1955 – disappeared 8 April 1969) was an English schoolgirl who disappeared on 8 April 1969, when aged 13, between the villages of Metton and Roughton in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom.

Sustead is a small village and parish in the county of Norfolk, England, about four miles south-west of Cromer. The parish also includes the villages of Bessingham and Metton. The parish is bounded by Aldborough and Hanworth to the south, Roughton to the east, Felbrigg and Aylmerton to the north and Gresham to the west.

Aldborough is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Aldborough and Thurgarton (together with Thurgarton), in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is situated about eight miles (13 km) south of Cromer. The name "Aldborough" derives from the Old English ald (old) and burh (fortification).The civil parish has an area of 7.15 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 567 in 259 households, the population increasing to 578 at the 2011 Census.

Thurgarton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Aldborough and Thurgarton, in the North Norfolk district of the county of Norfolk, England. It lies 6½ miles north of Aylsham and 5½ miles south-west of Cromer, and was once part of the North Erpingham hundred. In 1931 the parish had a population of 186.

All Saints' Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Thurgarton, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church stands in an isolated position on a crossroads north of the village, 6 miles (10 km) south of Cromer, to the west of the A140 road.

Alby with Thwaite is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish straddles the A140 some 10 km south of Cromer and 30 km north of Norwich, including the settlements of Alby and Thwaite. Alby with Thwaite has an area of 5.81 km2 and in the 2001 census had a population of 223 in 86 households, the population increasing to 245 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.The church at the hamlet of Thwaite All Saints, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. Other features of interest are the 1624 pulpit and the 1824 Sunday school room situated north of the chancel. The novelist Gertrude Fenton lived at the White House in All Saints’ Thwaite with her husband Arthur in the 1870s.

Gunton Park Lake is a 18.3-hectare (45-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest by Gunton Hall, north-west of North Walsham in Norfolk. It was formed by damming Hagon Beck. This artificial lake has the largest flock of post-breeding gadwall in Britain, and more than 500 birds have sometimes been recorded in September. Wintering wildfowl include teal, mallard, shoveler, shelduck and goosander.The site is private land with no public access.

St Margaret's Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in Felbrigg, Norfolk.

Erpingham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north of Aylsham and 15 miles (24 km) north of Norwich, along the Scarrow Beck. In 1935, Erpingham parish was merged with Calthorpe to form the parish of Erpingham with Calthorpe.