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Dist:0.2km<br/>Hill Cottage (at left) and Weaver's Cottage, viewed from a track leading into Swanton Hill Common.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>This path leads northwards past the churchyard of St Michael's to Swanton Hill, from the end of Church Road.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Traversing Swanton Hill Common.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The view was taken in easterly direction along Swanton Abbott Road as it approaches Swanton Hill.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>A narrow path can be seen traversing one of the quite large dips in the ground which can be found on Swanton Hill Common.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>A towermill used to be located here: built around 1845, it was four storeys high, with four double shuttered sails and a dome-shaped cap and an eight-bladed fan. The sails powered two pairs of stones and a flour mill. In times of low wind a portable steam engine, housed in a shed, provided additional power. No traces remain.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>For more information on this church see http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/swantonabbot/swantonabbot.htm
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Partially fenced off as long as construction work is still ongoing for the new extension to the school.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>View east towards St Michael's church along Youngman's Lane.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The 14th c tower has a plain parapet and was built a century after the church, which still has its original door I believe, complete with knocker. At the west of the nave is the octagonal 14th century font with quatrefoil design around the bowl and traceried arcades on the shaft. The chancel has been raised to such a height that the piscina is only a few inches away from the present floor level and the old sedilia is actually below it.
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