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  Cawston Timeline -  
     
Before 3,000 BC
 
The glacial "blue stones" found in this area are a link with the Ice Ages. A few rough flint implements of the Middle Stone Age have been found. Related Link:  Finds  
     
3,000 to 1,800 BC The Neolithic Age. Well-finished flint axes of this period have  been discovered. Related Link:  Finds  
     
18,00 to 550 BC The Bronze Age. A few bronze tools and burial urn have been found, Related link: Finds  
     
After 550 BC The Iron Age. Harness ring found. Related link: Finds  
     
43 to 410 AD Roman Times. Pottery, Coin And Roman Road found. Related link: Finds  
     
410 to 787 Anglo-Saxon period. Cawston name - See Link: Did You Know. In 1973 a 6th century ring - brooch was found.  
     
787 to 1066
 
Viking invasions began in 787, and from that time we had a succession  of English and Danish kings Norfolk was for some time part of the  Dane-Law. Harold, the last true English King was Lord of Cawston  Manor.  
     
1066 The Domesday Survey by William the Conqueror. The Manor here was  described as one large with a wood "so large as to feel 1500 hogs".  
     
1110 Henry I granted land to William Meys, to the east of Cawston. This  later became Meys Manor, and subsequently Haveringland Hall estate.  
     
1189 Henry de Castello, first Rector of Cawston.  
     
1263 Henry III granted the Lord of the Manor permission to hold a fair here on St. Remigius (Oct.1st.) and the day following, and also a weekly market on Tuesday.  
     
1273 Edward 1 granted our St. Agnes’  Fair (Jan 21st & 22nd).  
     
1274 Grant of land to Baldwin, later to Robert Leeche; this became Leeche's  Manor, near the present Beerhouse Farm.  
     
1294 Edward I visited Cawston on a hunting trip. The "King's Castle" here mentioned in old records, was probably a hunting lodge.  
     
1315 Cawston Worsted mentioned in official documents; later in the 14th.century there are references to Cawston Woolens and Cawston flannel.  
     
1316
 
David de Strabolgi, who had rebelled against King Bruce of Scotland and became Lord of the Manor. He was responsible for felling the "six great oaks "that sheltered the market place, and also destroyed the fishponds. Later this century Jonn of Gaunt held the manor for a time.  
     
1348 to 49 The Black Death plague swept Britain and many died in this area. Related Link: Catastrophes  
     
1400 St. Agnes’ Church by Michael de la Pole was nearing completion.  
     
1465

Men from Cawston supported William de La Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in a raid on the home of the Pastons at Drayton.

 
     
1549 Kett’s  Rebellion. It is probable that Cawston men were involved in this.  
     
1642 to 48 The Civil War. Oliver Cromwell visited this part of Norfolk.  
     
1676
 
The Rector of Cawston, the Revd John. Hildeyard, became known as “The boxing parson" after an argument with Mr Hirne of Haveringland during the annual Ascensiontide "perambulation of the parish ".  
     
1685 Great fire in village. Related Link: Catastrophes  
     
1698 The Cawston Duel, the last fought in Norfolk.  
     
1725 The first Sheep Fair. Related Links: Fairs  Woollen Industry  
     
1783 Fire damage to buildings and roof of Chancel roof of Church. Related Link: Catastrophes  
     
1786 Mr Johnson of Heydon was robbed by a highwayman, near the 11th.milestone on the Holt Road. There were a number of similar reports at this time.  
     
1800



 
The Enclosure Act resulted in the "dividing, allotting, and enclosing of common fields" in Cawston.

Smuggling was rife in this area, and "Smugglers Hole" at Eastgate was part of a system for smuggling goods inland from the coast. Jeremiah Abel, of Cawston appeared at the Old Bailey on smuggling charges. On Boxing Day, 1801, two local men were killed in an affray with Excisemen and troops.
 
     
1821 William Cobbett visited Cawston on one of his "Rural Rides” .  
     
1829 Wesley Chapel opened.  
     
1832 Cholera epidemic. 24 deaths in the parish. Related Link: Catastrophes   
     
1861 Methodist Chapel opened.  
     
1871 School opened by the Revd. T.H. Marsh.  
     
1876 Fire at Mr Sam Pye's Mill. Related Link: Mills - Sygate  
     
1886 Cawston & District Band formed.  
     
1896 The Manorial rights, having passed from Augustine Earle to the Bulwer Family of Heydon, were sold to Mr. George Cawston of London. he built Cawston Manor, now the Jessell Group.  
     
1904 Cemetery opened.  
     
1912 The Cecil Cawston Memoril Institute (village hall) opened.  
     
1914 - 1918 World War 1. Bombs fell in the parish. Related Link: Roll of Honour  
     
1937 The Village sign unveiled commemorating the Coronation of King George VI.  
     
1939 - 1945 World War 11. Related Link: Roll of Honour  
     
1947 Winter of snow. Related Link: Memory Lane 1947 Photos  
     
1952 Last passenger train ran through Cawston. Related Link: Railway/Transport  
     
1953 The "new School" opened as an all-age school. Senior pupils later transferred to Reepham.  
     
1960 - 1980 Extensive building at Howards Way, Fairfields, Clifford Pye Close and Jubilee Close.  
     
1980 - 2004 Extensive building at Marshall Howard Close and William Bush Close.  
     
2004 to present day - Click on this link - From 2004.  
     
     
     








 

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