Category: Norfolk Annals

A cricket match was played on the ice at Scoulton Mere, between two selected elevens from the parish of Hingham.

Christmas Day was ushered in with snowstorms and hailstorms, thunder and lightning. On the 26th the roads were almost impassable.

The skeleton of a gigantic whale, taken at Plymouth in October, 1831, was exhibited on the Castle Hill, Norwich.

Robert and William Kett were executed for treason. Robert had led a huge peasant rebellion in Norfolk which had shaken the Tudor regime to its foundations.

The eccentric George Walpole, Earl of Orford, died. Grandson of Britain’s first Prime Minister, he was the owner of the magnificent Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

A wrestling match took place at Barford between “the noted Game Chicken” and the “East Tuddenham champion”.

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey died. Born in 1471 in Ipswich, he rose from humble origins to be King Henry VIII’s right hand man, only to die in disgrace.

One of the most notorious murders in Norfolk history took place at Stanfield Hall, near Wymondham.

Edmund, last King of independent Anglo-Saxon East Anglia, was martyred. He had been defeated in battle by Danish Viking invaders, and captured.

A meeting of landowners and others was held at Yarmouth, to consider a scheme proposed by Robert Stephenson for constructing a railway from Yarmouth to Norwich.