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Pentney ran close to the river Nar The name suggests that Pentney was at one time an island: one theory
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gravedigger, William King, found six silver Saxon brooches while digging a grave at the church. Not realising what they were, he handed them to the rector, who locked them in the vestry chest. Three years later the new rector, the Rev. John Wilson, recognised their significance, and they were
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to seize its considerable lands, claiming the right under a weakness in the details of a property agreement between his father and Roger de Vaux. Geoffrey, the Prior of
Pentney, took the case to the Pope, and when it finally was dealt with, in the reign of
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wrote of it: "We find the pedestal and shaft of what must have been, when perfect, a most handsome cross, it all seems in such perfect proportion. The shaft is remarkably slender, even for a wayside cross".
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and the property of the Crown. Mr King was given the value of the brooches, £135,000. He donated £25,000 to
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of the Priory as part of a crackdown on misconduct at religious institutions in the
Norwich diocese. Pentney and its Canons were found without fault.
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on the earldom. This created a tension between Henry, who opposed the interdict, and the
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Pentney was the birthplace of the well-known 'King of the
Norfolk Poachers'. The Pentney Poacher's story is told in the East Anglian classic
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as 9th century silver disc brooches of national importance, made of delicately cut and engraved sheet silver.
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1166:Crimplesham
1141:Castle Acre
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603:King's Lynn
402:Augustinian
345:2001 census
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302: /
186:KING'S LYNN
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1571:Wimbotsham
1556:West Winch
1521:Watlington
1491:Tottenhill
1456:Syderstone
1416:Snettisham
1401:Shernborne
1291:Hunstanton
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287:52°41′40″N
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