One of these is Hayden which we visited on the way back from North Norfolk. There's only one road into and one road out of the village which is owned by the Bulwer Long family. But along a stretch of road known imaginatively as The Street there is a pub, tea rooms, a number of craft shops (just off the main street), a large church and an estate and park that the public can at present wander through as it is a permissive path.
The village is privately owned, by the Bulwer Long family and is one of only a dozen English villages that are entirely privately owned. he village is still owned by the Bulwer Long family, one of only around a dozen English villages that are entirely privately owned. Only about 100 people live there.
You might just recognise Heydon from my photographs. Get this. It has been used fir the soap opera Weaver's Green. Films partly shot in the village or at the hall include: The Go Between (1970), Riders (1993), Hitler's Britain (2002), Vanity Fair, The Woman in White and The Moonstone (1996), The Peppermint Pig and A Cock and Bull Story (2005). So don't be surprised if you are enjoying a drink at the pub or tea rooms and a film crew turn up.
But best of all the Monty Python sketch about village idiots was filmed there and The Earle Arms was used as the Winterman Arms in the ITV sitcom Rising Up (1999).
I had occasion to use the facilities at the Earle Arms and in the men's toilets (sit down department) were a number of signed photographs of jockeys and in the bar was a drawing of Lester Piggott, arguably the greatest jockey of all time.
Hope you enjoy my photos of Heydon. There are also some of Kelling Heath, Weybourne.
But before I go today a funny response at a deli in North Norfolk.
"Do you have iced tea?" we asked.
"No we don't. We can do some hot tea and then put ice cubes in it," came the reply.
We declined the offer.