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In 2005, the Fincham Chorus was formed by people from Fincham and the surrounding area. To date, they have staged several concerts and performed at one wedding, as well as taking part in the Christmas carol services. To date, they have raised over Β£10,000 for St Martin's Church restoration fund.
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and located inside St. Martin's Churchyard. The memorial was restored in 2012 with the partition chains around the memorial being stolen in 2013 and subsequently replaced. The memorial lists the following names for the
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Fincham Hall is a manor-house dating from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with an earlier octagonal brick tower. Today, the hall is available for tourists to rent on
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thoroughfare, meaning the parish has yielded numerous Roman artefacts including three separate hoards of silver coins, a curious figure of a hare and hound and a bust of
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The parish has also yielded many artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon period including rare coins dating from the reign of King Eadwold and another that was minted in
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and the annual Village Fete. The hall has been severely damaged twice in recent memory, once after an illegal
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is famous throughout Norfolk due to the fact it stands on four separate legs and depicts scenes from
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Fincham's war memorial takes the form of a square plinth topped with a crucifix, made from
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Fincham Memorial Hall is located close to the Village Green, and is the venue for monthly
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As of 2016, the village was home to a petrol station and a hairdressing salon.
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Pvt. Jonathan A. Bywater (1886–1915), 9th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regt.
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L-Cpl. Sydney Bacon (1887–1914), 1st Bn., Royal Norfolk Regiment
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Pvt. Arthur Cater (1897–1918), 6th Bn., Northamptonshire Regt.
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Pvt. Charles Wilding (1883–1915), 8th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regt.
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Pvt. Arthur Elliot (1888–1917), 8th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regt.
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Pvt. Albert Bly (1888–1915), 1st Bn., Royal Norfolk Regiment
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of Clackclose. In 1086, the village was divided between the
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Pvt. Ralph Bacon (1893–1918), 8th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regt.
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Pvt. Bert Bell (1894–1917), 7th Bn., Royal Norfolk Regt.
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Gnr. Bert Sculpher (1897–1917), 322nd (Siege) Battery,
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Norfolk, Borough Council of King's Lynn & West.
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Pvt. Frederick W. E. Upshaw (1891–1918), 2/5th Bn.,
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Fincham, Norfolk

Fincham is located in Norfolk
Norfolk
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TF685065
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King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Norfolk
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East
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England
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Post town
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PE33
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Norfolk
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South West Norfolk
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