Thetford, Norfolk - Spring Walk - Salmon postcard c.1930s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Spring Walk, Thetford, Norfolk
• Publisher:  J Salmon (12514)
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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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Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just south of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, covering an area of 29.55 km² (11.41 sq mi), has a population of 21,588.^[1]

Thetford is traditionally thought of as the royal residence of Boudica^{[citation needed]} Queen of the Iceni. The Iceni were a Celtic tribe living in Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire. Archaeological evidence suggests that Thetford was an important tribal centre during the late Iron Age and early Roman period. A ceremonial 'grove' was uncovered there during excavations. In 1979, a hoard of Romano-British metalwork, known as the Thetford treasure was located just outside of Thetford. Dating from the mid-4th Century AD, this hoard is a collection of thirty three inscribed spoons, twenty gold finger rings, four pendants, several necklaces and a 2"" gold buckle depicting a dancing satyr. They are currently on display and under curation at the British Museum.

Thetford, an important crossing of the Little Ouse River, draws its name from the Anglo-Saxon Theodford or peoples ford. The nearby River Thet was later named after the town.

In the Anglo-Saxon period, Thetford was the home of the monarchs of East Anglia^{[citation needed]} and was seat of a bishopric.^{[citation needed]} On 20 November 869, Edmund the Martyr – the last native King of the East Angles – was killed in East Anglia by the Danish Vikings. By tradition Hingwar and his brother Hubba slew King Edmund, martyring him, most likely around his 30th birthday. However the stories of Edmund’s death are numerous and the details vary. Some have him dying in battle, but the majority have him captured by the brutal Ubbe Ragnarsson and Ivar the Boneless. Refusing to renounce his religion, Edmund is said to have undergone horrific treatment, either used for target practice by Danish bowmen, or even more horribly made a ‘blood eagle’ sacrifice, his ribs separated from his spine and his lungs pulled from his living body. Yet still he refused to renounce Christ, and was decapitated by the Danes in exasperation. Edmund’s head was said to have been guarded by a wolf for weeks before his followers recovered it, a story that led to his being the patron saint of wolves. After his death, he quickly became accepted as a saint and a martyr. His body, when seen years after his death, was intact and without signs of decay, and even more miraculously was healed of its wounds, only a thin red line around his neck showing the brutality of his end. Miracles were attributed to him, including one where his spirit appeared to the last heathen Danish king in England, Sweyn Forkbeard, causing the latter to fall from his horse and die in convulsions. His shrine at Beadoriceworth became an important point of pilgrimage in early medieval England, the town changing its name to Bury St Edmunds (town of St Edmund). For a time St. Edmund was England’s patron saint, until St. George replaced him, and there is a campaign afoot today to reinstate the martyr king to that position. One story has King Edmund born in Nuremberg, but the most credible stories have him as descended from a dynasty of Anglo-Saxon kings, his father being Aethelweard^{[disambiguation needed]} - who died in 854 when Edmund was age 14. Edmund was said to have been crowned by St. Humbert on 12/25/854, possibly in Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. His piety is well recorded, seen in his just treatment of his subjects, and in the story that he went into retreat at Hunstanton for a year, during which time he memorized the Psalter, a feat that in its day would have been deemed a considerable display of learning. But it is Edmund’s death which is the most remarkable element of his life. In 869 the Danes marched south from York through Mercia and into East Anglia, where they took Thetford and used it as a base. According to one version of the tale, Edmund refused to fight them, giving himself up to his enemies in accordance with Christ’s turning the other cheek. In another he engages the Danes in a bloody battle.

The Domesday Book lists William of Bello Fargo as the Bishop of Thetford^[2] in 1085.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=norfolk

number of items=single

period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

postage condition=unposted