One particularly fine example was included as part of the Thetford treasure from fourth century Norfolk, UK.

An example of this was a set of thirty-two 4th-century spoons found near Thetford in England in 1979.

In 1536 his first son, Thomas ( later 4th Duke of Norfolk ), was born, Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and treason, and the Duke of Richmond died at the age of 17 and was buried at one of the Howard homes, Thetford Abbey.

He was buried in Thetford Priory, but his body seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to the tomb of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk at Framlingham Church.

Bigod's base was in Thetford, Norfolk where he founded a priory later donated to the great monastery at Cluny.

Upon his death there was a dispute between the Bishop of Norwich, Herbet Losinga, and the monks at Thetford Priory, founded by Bigod.

There are references to its use by boats carrying goods to Brandon as early as the 13th century, and barges are known to have reached Thetford, some beyond Santon Downham when the river was tidal.

Stone from Barnack, used in the construction of Thetford Priory in the 12th century, was almost certainly moved along the river, and improvements to the channel were authorised by the Commissioners of Sewers as early as 1575.

Further documentary evidence confirms that it was navigable as far as Thetford in 1664.

An Act of Parliament authorised the Corporation of Thetford to make improvements to the river in 1670, but they were unable to carry out the work, and so the Rt Hon Henry, Earl of Arlington made the improvements, and was assigned the tolls as a result.

A further Act was obtained in 1789, which regularised the collection of tolls on the whole river by Thetford Corporation.

Immediately upstream of Nuns Bridges, Thetford, the river was widened to form Thetford swimming pool, which remained in use until the 1970's when an indoor pool was built.

By way of example, he noted that the line from Thetford to Swaffham carried a total of 5 trains each weekday in each direction, carrying an average of 9 passengers with only 10 % of the costs of operating the line covered by fares ; another example he used was the Gleneagles-Crief-Comrie line with had 10 trains a day and five passengers average earning only 25 % of costs.

A total of 31 mints were employed in this recoinage — Bedford, Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Colchester, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Ilchester, Ipswich, Launceston, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Pembroke, Salisbury, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Thetford, Wallingford, Wilton, Winchester, and York — but once the recoinage was completed only 12 mints were allowed to remain active.

He was educated at Thetford Grammar School.

The family moved to West Harling, near Thetford in 1573 after Nashe's father was awarded the living there at the church of All Saints.

In 1884 there was an introduction of roe from Wurttemberg in Germany into the Thetford Chase area and these spread to populate most of Norfolk, Suffolk and substantial parts of Cambridgeshire.

** History: A-65 was planned in the early 1970s to extend from Autoroute 20 south to Thetford Mines.

He was subsequently elected to Parliament as member for Old Sarum ( 1624 ), Thetford ( 1625 ) and Castle Rising ( 1628 ).

It was during that period that the Griffin Hotel was built, and it was in the cellars of the Griffin that prisoners on their way to the March Assizes in Thetford were confined overnight, tethered by chains to rings in the wall.

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and other early Tudor dynasty officials were once buried in Thetford before removal to Framlingham.

In 1694, George Hickes ( Dean of Worcester ) was consecrated nonjuring bishop of Thetford and Thomas Wagstaffe was consecrated nonjuring bishop of Ipswich.

* Thomas Cob ( of Haverhill ), burnt burnt date unknown September at Thetford, Norfolk

* Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet ( 1677 – 1746 ), 4th baronet of Hanmer and Speaker of the House of Commons, MP for Flint 1701 – 1702, Flintshire 1702 – 1705, Thetford 1705 – 1708, Suffolk 1708 – 1727

Paine attended Thetford Grammar School.

Born in Thetford on February 9, 1737, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution.

In December 2007 plans were unveiled for a statue of Lowe to be erected in Thetford, where the outside scenes for Dad's Army were filmed.

A life-size bronze statue of the Maharajah showing him on a horse was unveiled by HRH the Prince of Wales in 1999 at Butten Island in Thetford, a town which benefited from his and his sons ' generosity.

The town suffered in the plague of 1349, but recovered enough, and with encouragement from the Canons, and growing general prosperity, to have a new church ( now St. Mary's, behind the buildings on the south side of Market Hill )) constructed with limestone from the Wash and decorated with Thetford flint.

It lies 9. 5 miles ( 15 km ) to the south west of the city of Norwich, on the A11 road to Thetford and London.

Founded on March 17, 1910, in Thetford, Vermont, by Dr. Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte Vedder Gulick.

* Little Thetford, settled on a boulder clay island within the fens since the Bronze Age, south of Ely ;

The village lies on the River Blackbourn, approximately 8 miles from Bury St Edmunds and 6 miles from Thetford, Norfolk.

His funeral and burial on 22 June at Thetford Priory were said to have been ' spectacular and enormously expensive, costing over £ 1300 and including a procession of 400 hooded men bearing torches and an elaborate bier surmounted with 100 wax effigies and 700 candles ', befitting the richest and most powerful peer in England.

A plaque on the monument to the 2nd Duke of Norfolk ( as the Earl of Surrey became in 1514 ) at Thetford put the figure at 17, 000.

An extensive ditch system, not visible on aerial photographs, has been identified, as well as a wooden track-way 800 m in length between Fordey Farm ( Barway ) and Little Thetford with associated shards of later Bronze Age pottery ( 1935 ).

It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just south of Thetford Forest.

Both the Priory and the Bell Inn, also in Thetford, were featured for their alleged hauntings on the television series Ghosthunters, after stories of one of the Bell Inn's staff members being curiously locked into one of the bedrooms she was cleaning.

Thetford Cricket Club play their home games next to the football club on Mundford Road.

The remnants of Thetford Bridge railway station on the southern side of the town can still be seen.

* Information from Genuki Norfolk on Thetford.

The road continues, bypassing Thetford, Attleborough and Wymondham, although up until recently it ran through the centre of Thetford, causing heavy traffic on the route.

Hockey is also a pastime of many and Thetford Mines was chosen as a top-five finalist for Kraft Hockeyville for 2009 on the February 21, 2009 Hockey Night In Canada " Hockey Day In Canada " special.

After remaining some time in concealment in London, he was sent by Sancroft and the other nonjurors to James II in France on matters connected with the continuance of their episcopal succession ; upon his return in 1694 he was himself consecrated suffragan bishop of Thetford in the non-juring church.

Helen Schucman wrote the book with the help of William Thetford, although it does not identify them as authors, based on what she called an " inner voice " which she identified as Jesus.

Dalip Singh bought ( or the India Office purchased for him ) a 17, 000 acre ( 69 km² ) country estate at Elveden on the border between Norfolk and Suffolk, close to Thetford, in 1863.

Statue of Dalip Singh on Butten Island, Thetford Dalip Singh died in Paris in 1893 at the age of 55, having seen India after the age of fifteen only during two brief, tightly-controlled visits in 1860 ( to bring his mother to England ) and in 1863 ( to scatter his mother's ashes ).