Coltishall, Norfolk (and its haunted bridge)
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Coltishall is a village located just to the north of Norwich, on the River Bure, west of Wroxham.
Coltishall was a place of note even when the Domesday Book was compiled. For 250 years it was a centre of the malting industry. Many Norfolk wherries (trading ships) were built here.
Between 1779 and 1912, it was possible to navigate the River Bure all the way to Aylsham, but now the limit of navigation for powered craft is just south of Coltishall.
The nearby RAF Coltishall played an important role during World War II, and afterwards, but was finally closed in December 2006. The site is now home to Bure prison.
The bridge over the river Bure is allegedly haunted by a dog which passes every night (not in this film) and once a year by the father of Anne Boleyn, Thomas Boleyn, who walks over once a year carrying the head of his judicially murdered daughter!
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I have driven through there so many times but now I live up North... But I so miss Norfolk but cant move back.... and worked in Wroxham. Great video - Great memories! Thank you
You are welcome. Also you may be interested that the Red Lion pub has Danish gables on the corners. This was copied from Blickling Hall and is seen on numerous buildings in this area.
@jagman5818
3 жыл бұрын
Sophie S they are called Dutch gables
Very interesting insights - thank you!
I will have a look when I am there next!! All the best from Gdańsk, Poland!
My wife works in Coltishall, so very familiar with the views here, approaching the Rising Sun always looks like a postcard. The bridge is a bit too narrow for modern vehicles, always seem too close to vehicles coming the other way.
I think you'll find that there is ghosts on that bridge and as I have lived there all my life I think I would know
@stokraft chyba sms?
@Norfolkscot The word in modern German for tussock grass is Horst so maybe in Anglo Saxon it is something similar to Hautbois which the Normans then made into something closer to their own language.
The ghost on the bridge is said to be Black Shuck.
Sorry no ghosts on Horstead bridge and hautbois is a corruption of an old english word meaning Tussocky grass. Douglas Bader was at Coltishall for all of 4 months and Anne Boleyn's uncle owned the old long demolished Blickling Hall at Aylsham. Again she was there for just a few weeks. Norfolk is a wonderful source of fanciful stories and many an 'Old boy' gets free pints recounting and enlarging them.
When I lived in Wroxham we pronounced it "Hobbis"
@VanlifewithAlan
10 жыл бұрын
Why Hobbis?
@spentacle
10 жыл бұрын
***** No "why" about it. As well ask why Stiffkey is called Stooky or Wymondham is Wind'um. At school the organ stop Hautbois was pronounced as in French.
@spentacle
10 жыл бұрын
***** May I refer you to www.norfolkdialect.com/villages.htm
@VanlifewithAlan
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you - that now makes sense!
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I also saw a white lady. I did not know this at the time but as it turned out several other people had also seen it. I am sure there is a logical explanation for this however. My lady was nowhere near Norfolk though!
The real haunted place is the bench at the top of Norfolk mead hotel track....
@VanlifewithAlan
4 жыл бұрын
I shall bear that in mind for the next visit!
@Norfolkscot Are you sure there are no ghosts there? I am sure someone told me there was - maybe it was the ghost itself!!
Its pronounced 'hawboys' in Norfolk. The dog is not just a dog its Black Shuck - the most well known phantom in East Anglia and its not every night!! Anne Boleyn's father is said to have to go over I think it is 12 bridges (could be wrong about the number) on every anniversary of her death.The Boleyn family lived in a manor house on the site of Blickling Hall. Many historians think she was actually borne at Blickling because her family did not acquiireHever Castle until well after her birth.
@Scott_Raynor
5 жыл бұрын
hobb-iss
@astroterf.
8 ай бұрын
I'm a Norfolker born and bred and it's always been Hob-bis 🤷🏻♀️
@astroterf.
8 ай бұрын
@@Scott_Raynoryes!