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Beeston Regis
Beeston Regis is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Sheringham near the North Sea coast. The village is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Cromer and 16 miles (26 km) north of the city of Norwich. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 1,062.
The parish of Runton forms the western boundary, the wooded Beeston Regis Heath forms the southern boundary with the parish of Aylmerton, and Sheringham lies to the west.
There are few traces of early antiquity in Beeston Regis, with some evidence of Roman habitation on Beeston Regis Heath. In 1859 a complete set of quern-stones were found dating from Roman times.
On Beeston Regis Heath there are circular pits called 'Hills and Holes' (from the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of the area). They are thought to date from prehistoric times. During the Saxon-Norman to Medieval periods these pits were dug to obtain iron ore, which was then smelted in a furnace to produce iron.
Beeston Regis is mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086, where it is called Besetune and Besetuna/tune. The main landholders of the parish were William d'Ecouis and Hugh de Montfort. The main tenant was Ingulf, The survey also lists ½ a mill. In the Domesday survey fractions were used to indicate that the entry, in this case a mill, was on an estate that lay within more than one parish.
Beeston Regis was once known as Beeston-next-the-Sea, but from 1399 when Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Lancaster, became King Henry IV, the name became Beeston Regis. Regis means "of the king", and the living and manor of Beeston became part of the Crown and the Lancaster Inheritance.
Beeston Regis Priory is remains of an Augustinian priory. It was founded in 1216. The priory is listed as Grade I and is located on the eastern side of Beeston Regis common.
The suppression of the Priory and its school (the priory was finally dissolved in 1538) left no local provision for education. This is believed to have led Sir John Gresham to found Gresham's School at nearby Holt in 1555.
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Beeston Regis
Beeston Regis is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Sheringham near the North Sea coast. The village is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Cromer and 16 miles (26 km) north of the city of Norwich. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 1,062.
The parish of Runton forms the western boundary, the wooded Beeston Regis Heath forms the southern boundary with the parish of Aylmerton, and Sheringham lies to the west.
There are few traces of early antiquity in Beeston Regis, with some evidence of Roman habitation on Beeston Regis Heath. In 1859 a complete set of quern-stones were found dating from Roman times.
On Beeston Regis Heath there are circular pits called 'Hills and Holes' (from the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of the area). They are thought to date from prehistoric times. During the Saxon-Norman to Medieval periods these pits were dug to obtain iron ore, which was then smelted in a furnace to produce iron.
Beeston Regis is mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086, where it is called Besetune and Besetuna/tune. The main landholders of the parish were William d'Ecouis and Hugh de Montfort. The main tenant was Ingulf, The survey also lists ½ a mill. In the Domesday survey fractions were used to indicate that the entry, in this case a mill, was on an estate that lay within more than one parish.
Beeston Regis was once known as Beeston-next-the-Sea, but from 1399 when Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Lancaster, became King Henry IV, the name became Beeston Regis. Regis means "of the king", and the living and manor of Beeston became part of the Crown and the Lancaster Inheritance.
Beeston Regis Priory is remains of an Augustinian priory. It was founded in 1216. The priory is listed as Grade I and is located on the eastern side of Beeston Regis common.
The suppression of the Priory and its school (the priory was finally dissolved in 1538) left no local provision for education. This is believed to have led Sir John Gresham to found Gresham's School at nearby Holt in 1555.
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