Thoughts From Just Another Passer By

 A third Church in a row under the patronage of St Mary - and specifically the last two St. Mary the Virgin.  As I shut my laptop down at close of the work day I had hoped I would catch a very local church to me open and visitable on the sunny afternoon of Friday. And whilst it spoils the story slightly I walked around the beautifuly kept ( and as I would find out documented ) graveyard I was unable to make entry to the church. So after a fourth round of walking and after a call with my parents to hear about there day I went to leave. I was walking to my car but paused as another vehicle turned up. Upon making small pleasantries I had said how I was unable to enter and the delightful gentleman was here to work within the church on bell maintenance and said he was happy for me to pop my head in the door. Whilst the story is much more involved (as with many church going folk in North Norfolk  there is usually less than six degrees of seperation) the welcome recieved and inf...

In inappropriate foot wear and ignoring the lure of the Roughton Fish Shop , I ventured past the end of the playfield and found the beginnings of a footpath over a small bridge leading to a small patch of trees and what could be the last uncut field of corn in these parts. This small pathway was also green - unusual in the North of Norfolk with the ongoing warmer weather.  As I walked the hidden path to Church number Seven, I did wonder - partially as I had also been listening to Manda Scott's 'Boudica' series  - how much our local landscape would have changed in the last millennium. Would the copse of trees be morec copious than the surrounding of the of Roughton's Church now? Whilst the area likely had farms ( the name meaning rough farm or rye farm ) are the extensive as the fields today - clearly not as agricultural practices have certainly changed. Further to that as I took the road less travelled - well footpath - this church is upon the main thoroughfare to Crome...