Bluebells in Rosary Cemetery, Norwich - the oldest non denominational cemetery in the country
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From a football grandstand to a picture of wheelbarrow and from a tower to a urinal we find Norfolk landmarks which are the oldest in the county, country or even the world
FOOTBALL STAND
The grandstand at Great Yarmouth Town Football Club is the oldest surviving football stand in the world. The stand, opened in 1892 is a grand 129 years old.
However, the first sport to be viewed from the stand was not football but athletics and cycling. The grade-II listed Wellesley Road ground was opened in 1888, with cycle races on a cinder track, watched by a crowd of 3,000. The first football match came two years later and Great Yarmouth Town moved in exactly 120 years ago. Record attendance was back in 1953 when almost 9,000 people watched the Bloaters win 1-0 against Crystal Palace in the first round of the FA Cup. Extra terracing was provided in the form of fish boxe
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Hethel Old Thorn is a Norfolk Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve - the smallest in the UK
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Some of the most remarkable trees in Norfolk range from a prehistoric fenland bog oak to the first cricket bat willow, and are linked with people from Pocahontas to Hitler
Smallest
Hethel Old Thorn is said to the be smallest nature reserve in the UK. The hawthorn bush, aka Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Hethel Old Thorn reserve, can be reached by a public footpath beside ancient Hethel church.
Oldest
A sweet chestnut tree in Holt Hall woods is believed to have begun growing before the Norman Conquest, making it more than 1,000 years old. In Hockering Wood some of the lime trees of the third largest lime wood in Britain might be even older.