A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HOLME, or Cowholme, a hamlet in Horning parish, Norfolk; 6½ miles N by W of Acle. A hermitage was founded here in 800, and burnt by the Danes. A mitred Benedictine abbey was built on the site of the hermitage in 1020, by Canute; and was, by act of parliament, given, at the Reformation, to the Bishops of Norwich. The abbey was so strongly fortified as to resemble a castle; it resisted the attacks of the Norman conqueror, till betrayed by one of its monks; it was greatly enriched, after the Conquest, by several royal benefactors; and, ever since its possession by the bishops of Norwich, it has entitled them to sit in parliament as lords of its barony, -so that their seat there is held by a double tenure. Only small traces of it now exist.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Horning AP/CP Norfolk AncC |
| Place names: | COWHOLME | HOLME | HOLME OR COWHOLME |
| Place: | Cowholme |
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