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    Stiffkey (/ˈstjuːki, ˈstɪfki/) is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the A149 coast road...
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  • Davidson (14 July 1875 – 30 July 1937), generally known as the Rector of Stiffkey, was a Church of England priest who in 1932, after a public scandal, was...
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    Cockthorpe Common, Stiffkey is a 7.1-hectare (18-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. It is in the...
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    The River Stiffkey is a chalk stream running through an area of north Norfolk, England from its source near Swanton Novers to flow out into the North Sea...
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  • Sir Nathaniel Bacon (died 7 November 1622), of Stiffkey in Norfolk, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP). Nathaniel Bacon was the second...
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    Stiffkey Fen is a nature reserve near Stiffkey, Norfolk. It is 14 ha (35 acres) in extent, and was created from farmland by Lord Buxton, who also, with...
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    Stiffkey Valley is a 44.4-hectare (110-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. It is in the Norfolk...
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    St John the Baptist and St Mary's Church is the parish church of Stiffkey in the English county of Norfolk. It is dedicated to St John the Baptist and...
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  • Philip Hamond (category People from Stiffkey)
    Army officer who played a prominent part in the downfall of the Rector of Stiffkey. He later collected Norfolk folk songs. He was the eldest son of Charles...
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    Friday market was already "small" in 1845 and had ceased by 1883. The River Stiffkey flows through the parish, from south to north, passing to the east of bulk...
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    other forces. Eventually, an anti-aircraft gunnery school on the range at Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast, delivered a workable solution, a trapeze-like arrangement...
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  • Nathaniel Bacon may refer to: Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey (died 1622), lawyer and MP for Norfolk, half-brother of Francis Bacon Nathaniel Bacon (painter)...
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    Ashby (Northamptonshire, England) A 16th-century garden revised in 1708 Stiffkey, (Norfolk, England) Several informal designs including a line of elephants...
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  • 1946; and as such he played a leading role in the removal of the Rector of Stiffkey in 1932. The fourth son of Sir David Radcliffe, Lord Mayor of Liverpool...
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    Norfolk: Babingley Bure Burn Gaywood Glaven Heacham Hun Ingol Mun Nar Stiffkey Tas Waveney Wensum Wissey Yare Weybourne Beck Chalk streams of Suffolk:...
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  • R. R. Clarke and H. Apling's "An Iron Age Tumulus on Warborough Hill, Stiffkey, Norfolk" (1935). See also Carver 1998, p. 186, note 5.) Carver, Martin...
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  • Sheringham, Norfolk from the age of 11. His mother came from the village of Stiffkey, 15 miles to the west. It is often thought that he became a postman in...
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    (2002). "Concept and Compromise: Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Building of Stiffkey Hall". In Harper-Bill, Christopher (ed.). East Anglia's History; Studies...
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    Group of grey seals on sands at Stiffkey, Norfolk...
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  • was a Fellow from 1733 to 1737. He was appointed: Rector of Morston and Stiffkey, Norfolk 1736–1769 Rector of St Benet Fink 1764–1769 He was appointed to...
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    particularly weddings. The Manor of Morston was owned by Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey in the 16th century. In 1593 his daughter Anne married Sir John Townshend...
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    field units continuing to rely on their original iron sights or the simple Stiffkey-Stick sights that were introduced in late 1943. The No.7 anti-aircraft...
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  • England Stawell STOL /stɒl/ England Steyning STEN-ing /ˈstɛnɪŋ/ England Stiffkey STEW-kee /ˈstjuːkiː/ Also regular England Stivichall STY-chəl /ˈstaɪtʃəl/...
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  • Lord Keeper, for his buildings on Fetter Lane. Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey and Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave paid him £20 in May 1579. Portington...
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  • Southampton. A classmate was Harold Davidson, later known as the Rector of Stiffkey. He attended Oxford University as a non-collegiate student, but left in...
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    years his senior and a cousin of Harold Davidson, the famous Rector of Stiffkey. Toynbee died in 1883, at age 30. His health had rapidly deteriorated,...
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  • A Bofors gun featuring the 'Stiffkey Sight'....
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    Sheringham Sidestrand Skeyton Sloley Smallburgh Southrepps Stalham Stibbard Stiffkey Stody Suffield Sustead Sutton Swafield Swanton Abbott Swanton Novers Tatterford...
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    Observatory Holme Dunes Kelling Quags Salthouse Marshes Scolt Head Island Stiffkey Fen Titchwell Marsh List of nature reserves in the North Norfolk Coast...
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  • Jealous lover of 'La Belle Amie' Uncredited Laughter in the Dark Paul The Stiffkey Scandals of 1932 Roland Oliver, KC TV film Taste of Excitement Guardi 1970...
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