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All these properties were once owned by William Newcombe-Baker, a local landowner whose estate covered much of the land round the village. He was a founder member of NORMAC, the Norfolk machinery body that brought modern mechanisation to arable farming in the 20th century East Anglia. Magazine Wood
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was rebuilt in 2000. From a high vantage point on Peddars Way, the sun can be seen setting over the sea – one of the few places this is possible on the east coast of Britain.
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There is an archaeological evidence of people living there in ancient times—the remains of Roman villas, pottery, a gold
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located to the south of the modern village, but it is an ongoing project expanding to many other sites in the parish.
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of 1086. One of its features was a church built of flint and stone, is Anglo-Saxon in origin. It has one of the 124
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lay on the line between Wells and King's Lynn, but closed to passengers in 1952 and to goods in 1964.
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Sedgeford Aerodrome and the aerial conflict over North West Norfolk during the First World War
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flint tools found in fields and gardens. Furthermore, it is crossed by two ancient roads, the
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Sunset across Sedgeford to the Norfolk coast from Magazine Wood Peddars Way
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The village's name is assumed to mean as "Secci's ford" as recorded in the
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www.sharp.org.uk Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
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Anglo Saxon era skeleton found at the Sedgeford Digsite in Norfolk, 2005.
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Its area of 6.6 square miles (17 km) had a population, including
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For the locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia, see
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Website 1643 Civil War in Lincolnshire and Sir Hamon LeStrange
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The village has an associated football team, Sedgeford FC.
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Peddars Way passes Magazine Wood and crosses the disused
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district. It lies in a farming valley with main crops of
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http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Sedgeford
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Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
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St Mary's on the European Round Tower Churches website
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The parish church, Sedgeford St Mary, is one of 124
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Sedgeford, Queensland

Sedgeford is located in Norfolk
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King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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