Coltishall, Norfolk (and its haunted bridge)

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Coltishall is a village located just to the north of Norwich and this is the route to get to it. Coltishall, located on the River Bure, west of Wroxham on the Norfolk Broads could be seen as the beginning of the Broads from the Bure.

Coltishall was a place of note even when the Domesday Book was compiled. For 250 years it was a centre of the malting industry. Many Norfolk wherries (trading ships) were built here.

Between 1779 and 1912, it was possible to navigate the River Bure all the way to Aylsham, but now the limit of navigation for powered craft is just south of Coltishall.

The nearby RAF Coltishall played an important role during World War II, and afterwards, but was finally closed in December 2006. The site is now home to Bure prison.

The bridge over the river Bure is allegedly haunted by a dog which passes every night (not in this film) and once a year by the father of Anne Boleyn, Thomas Boleyn, who walks over once a year carrying the head of his judicially murdered daughter!

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Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Coltishall
• Norfolk
• Broads
• Bure
• Anne
• Thomas
• Boleyn
• ghost
• Horstead
• Hautbois
• RAF
• Douglas
• Bader

[Norfolkscot]

Sorry no ghosts on Horstead bridge and hautbois is a corruption of an old english word meaning Tussocky grass.

Douglas Bader was at Coltishall for all of 4 months and Anne Boleyn's uncle owned the old long demolished Blickling Hall at Aylsham. Again she was there for just a few weeks. Norfolk is a wonderful source of fanciful stories and many an 'Old boy' gets free pints recounting and enlarging them.

[alanheath]

@Norfolkscot Are you sure there are no ghosts there? I am sure someone told me there was - maybe it was the ghost itself!!

[alanheath]

@Norfolkscot The word in modern German for tussock grass is Horst so maybe in Anglo Saxon it is something similar to Hautbois which the Normans then made into something closer to their own language.

[stokraft]

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[alanheath]

@stokraft chyba sms?

[GusiKrakow]

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[GusiKrakow]

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[GusiKrakow]

Red Lion & Red Rex:)