Bramerton, Norfolk - Woods End - Plastichrome postcard c.1960s

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Bramerton Woods End [Norfolk]
• Publisher: Plastichrome / Colourpictures Inc., Ernest Joyce & Co. Ltd., Norwich
• Postally used: no - has a 'sample' stamp from distributor
• Stamp:  no
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
• Notes / condition: almost as new

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Bramerton is a village in South Norfolk 4¾ miles (7½ km) south-east of Norwich, just north of the main A146 Norwich-Lowestoft road and on the south bank of the River Yare. In the 2001 census it contained 158 households and a population of 350,^[1] the population falling to 301 at the 2011 census.^[2]

Bramerton (from Old English,'farmstead by the bramble thicket')^[3] is centred along The Street, on which stands St. Peter's Church, a grade II listed building. Evidence of early settlement found in the village includes Neolithic axeheads, fragments of Iron Age pottery and an Iron Age terret or rein guide, Roman potsherds and a Roman coin. Part of an Early Saxon brooch and pieces of Middle Saxon pottery have also been found in Bramerton, which was listed in the Domesday Book.^[3]

Bramerton Hall, on the corner of The Street and Surlingham Lane, also grade II listed, is a brick-built house dating from about 1830.^[4] Several houses in the village are considerably older. The Grange, Warren Cottage, and Orchard House all date from the 17th century.^[3]

Bramerton no longer has a post office (closed 1968), shop (closed 1977) or school (closed 1978) but still has a pub, originally the Woods End, now renamed the Water's Edge, which lies on the south bank of the River Yare to the north of the village centre, in the hamlet of Woods End. At the north end of the village is a Dawn Christadelphian Hall, first opened in 1952 and extended in the 1960s and then again in the 1980s. A secondary hall for youth activities was added in the 2000s.^[5] Bramerton Health Care Clinic offers homoeopathy, herbal supplements and dietary advice.

Bramerton is part of South Norfolk District, but parts of the village lying adjacent to and in the vicinity of the river fall into the executive area of the Broads Authority.

There has been an inn on the site since before 1700. In 1828 the area and the nearby river were painted by Joseph Stannard, prominent in the Norwich School; entitled Boats on the Yare near Bramerton, Norfolk, his painting is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In Victorian times the inn possessed tea rooms and gardens popular with river-borne day-trippers from Norwich. The Woods End is still a popular spot for the mooring of pleasure craft and is also one of the few places on the Norfolk Broads where water skiing is allowed. Outside the pub (now renamed the Water's Edge) is a statue of Billy Bluelight (William Cullum), who in the 1920s–30s used to challenge boat trippers to a race along the river bank. He is famed for his claim... "My name is Billy Bluelight, my age is 45, I hope to get to Carrow Bridge before the boat arrive." He is said to have remained '45' for many years.^[6] Just to the east lies Bramerton Common, a public staithe and green. The rocks coming to the surface in the woods adjacent to the common have given their name to an inter-glacial stage in Britain's pre-history (see Geology below).