One benefit of ignoring the guidebook is that everything is unexpected, surprising and very much a true place. And so it is that I find myself in Thetford Forest almost by accident.
The Desert Rats were based in Thetford Forest and there is a memorial in tank form.
The forest has a large network of forest roads which my satnav recognises as FR153 and so on which means I spend an amount of time zigzagging through the forest on tracks and trails.
The church at Oxborough and it chantry chapel are still used though the main body is derelict. Chantry chapels came over from the Norman conquest and they were built with funds from the wealthy who wanted to be remembered and have mass sung for them at regular intervals. The word chantry derives from the French for 'to sing'.
My satnav took it upon itself to shorten an already short day but I picked up on the change which is fortunate as I would have missed Castle Acre and the portcullis on Bailey Street.
East Walton opts for a wheel as its emblem.
On further investigation it is because the wheelwright's oven is still standing in front of what would have been the blacksmiths.
