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High Dyke

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Henry Bell (1647–1711) was an English architect, a contemporary of Christopher Wren. He designed many buildings in West Norfolk including the Custom House in King's Lynn and All Saints Church in North Runcton.
 

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Quarles, Norfolk is also the site of a lost settlement. It is estimated there's about 200 lost settlements in Norfolk. Types of lost settlement include deserted medieval villages (DMVs), relocated or "shrunken" villages, those lost to coastal erosion and other settlements known to have been "lost" or significantly reduced in size over the centuries, including those evacuated during World War II due to the creation of the Stanford Training Area.
 
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Quarles in the twelfth century was owned by the Norman Bigod family, who also (among their many landholdings) owned Framlingham in Suffolk, where they were licensed to build it's castle.
 

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During renovation work on a hunting lodge near Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1996, a carpenter uncovered a plank of wood revealing a chilling pencilled message: "A fearful murder was committed the first day of this month (October 1887) at Cretingham. A curate cut the vicar's throat at 12 o'clock at night." Sheila Hardy wrote a book about it called The Cretingham Murder.
 

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The mid-19th-century St Paul's Church in Honiton was designed by Charles Fowler.

In 1818 Fowler began work on the new market at Gravesend in Kent, with a pair of colonnades, 80 feet long, connected by a covered building at one end.
 

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Despite its name, Newchurch seems to have been founded in the 16th Century. New Alresford in Hampshire has a similarly deceptive name but is even older, being founded in the 13th Century.
 

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