Norfolk (AGAIN!!) - Little Plumstead?

RedfordML

Anyone able to shed any info on LP??

Looks a small village, just wondered what was in village - aminities wise - shops, pubs etc!!

Not able to access any population info/actual sq foot etc of the village? - Anyone again help?

Done some research on the schooling and see there is a new Primary School building etc

Any info would be great - hopefully someone can help!!!:beer:

Better_Days

Sorry, don't know Little Plumstead, but worth moving to just for the wonderful name. Mellow fruitfulness and all that.

Bill Bryson expresses this wonderfully:

There is almost no area of British life that isn't touched with a kind of genius for names. Just look at the names of the prisons. You could sit me down with a limitless supply of blank paper and a pen and command me to come up with a more cherishably ridiculous name for a prison and in a lifetime I couldn't improve on Wormwood Scrubs or Strangeways. Even the common names of wildflowers - stitchwort, lady's bedstraw, blue fleabane, feverfew -have an inescapable enchantment about them.

But nowhere, of course, are the British more gifted than with place names. There are some 30,000 place names in Britain, a good half of them, I would guess, notable or arresting in some way. There are villages without number whose very names summon forth an image of lazy summer afternoons and butterflies darting in meadows: Winterbourne Abbas, Weston Lullingfields, Theddle-thorpe All Saints, Little Missenden. There are villages that seem to hide some ancient and possibly dark secret: Husbands Bosworth, Rime Intrinseca, Whiteladies Aston. There are villages that sound like toilet cleansers (Potto, Sanahole, Durno) and villages that sound like skin complaints (Scabcleuch, Whiterashes, Scurlage, Sockburn). In a brief trawl through any gazetteer you can find fertilizers (Hastigrow), shoe deodorizers (Powfoot), breath fresheners (Minto), dog food (Whelpo) and even a Scottish spot remover (Sootywells). You can find villages that have an attitude problem (Seething, Mockbeggar, Wrangle) and villages of strange phenomena (Meathop, Wigtwizzle, Blubberhouses). And there are villages almost without number that are just endearingly inane -

Prittlewell, Little Rollright, Chew Magna, Titsey, Woodstock Slop, Lickey End, Stragglethorpe, Yonder Bognie, Nether Wallop and the unbeatable Thornton-le-Beans. (Bury me there!) You have only to cast a glance across a map or lose yourself in an index to see that you are in a place of infinite possibility.

Some parts of the country seem to specialize in certain themes. Kent has a peculiar fondness for foodstuffs: Ham, Sandwich. Dorset goes in for characters in a Barbara Cartland novel: Bradford Peverell, Compton Valence, Langton Herring, Wootton Fitzpaine. Lincolnshire likes you to think it's a little off its head: Thimbleby Langton, Tumby Woodside, Snarford, Fishtoft Drove, Sots Hole and the truly arresting Spitall in the Street.

It's notable how often these places cluster together. In one compact area south of Cambridge, for instance, you can find Bio Norton, Rickinghall Inferior, Hellions Bumpstead, Ugley and (a personal favourite) Shellow Bowells. I had an impulse to go there now, to sniff out Shellow Bowells, as it were, and find what makes Norton Bio and Rickinghall Inferior. But as I glanced over the map my eye caught a line across the landscape called the Devil's Dyke. I had never heard of it, but it sounded awfully promising. I decided on an impulse to go there.

sammatty

I have lived on the new estate in between Little and Great Plumstead for 18 months now (the new school is on the same site as our house). Villages are nice. Lt Plumstead has a pub, the Brick Kilns, which is nice. It has a very extensive veggie menu which is different. Gt Plumstead has a small shop, good for the essential and news papers.

Further afield Blofield Heath has a post office, pub/Thai Restuarnt and a social club (The Heathlands Social Club). In Woodbastwick c. 10 mins drive from Lt Plumstead, there is the Fur and Feathers Pub which is the home of Woodefords Brewery (very nice!)

Where abouts are you looking at in the Village?

sammatty

Also, if you do not know the local area well, there is a Tesco, Sainsburys and Aldi not too far. Decent butchers on Plumstad Road (opp. Aldi) and central Norwich is about 20 mins drive with traffic.