But it is there. Just drive through Cley-Next-The-Sea allowing considerable time to negotiate the stupidly parked cars which make getting through the main street hazardous and practically impossible if a bus is coming the other way, and you come to Wiveton.
But there are two Wivetons. There's the one on the main coast road and then there's Wiveton village which is inland and home to the Wiveton Bell pub where we had lunch. And vey good it was as well.
But Wiveton is famous (well slightly well known at any rate) thanks to an appearance on national television. You may remember it from a programme entitled Normal For Norfolk which was set in Wiveton Hall and its tea rooms.
Normal For Norfolk featured aristocratic farmer Desmond MacCarthy. I can't say I ever caught more than a fleeting glance of a couple of episodes but we have stopped at the tea rooms on a couple of occasions - one of which was the day they reopened after lockdown restrictions were eased.
We had to sit in the garden and it's a very strange place. The chairs and tables I seem to remember were highly coloured plastic and dotted all over a meadow. We had this buzzer thingy that vibrated erratically when our food was ready and the whole experience was rather strange in a strange kind of way.
Normal for Norfolk is usually a derogatory phrase used against people who come from the county. I'm not sure what it means but it implies that Norfolk people are slightly left field, slightly off their chump, slightly mad, bad or just plain stupid and ignorant.
I believe, and older people who have worked in the NHS might be able to confirm this, that for many years when charts were placed on the end of beds so that doctors doing their rounds could pick them up and not get too confused, the initials T.M were often used. This stood for Typically Norfolk which, in those days, meant just bloody minded and difficult.
Of course that's not totally true. As I mentioned yesterday people up in North Norfolk are pretty friendly, although of course they may not be Norfolk born and bred.
When we sheltered from the rain in Cromer Library on Friday I picked up a History of Norwich written by Frank Meeres. I only had time to peruse some small sections and didn't take the book out as I didn't want it to get wet and didn't have enough room in my bag. So I read about Kett's Rebellion and mainly about the Strangers.
Today in Norwich we have Strangers' Hall. The Strangers played a huge part in the success story of Norwich. They were immigrants from the Low Countries - primarily Holland and Belgium - who fled from Religious prosecution to a protestant country (England). Many were weavers and dyers and that helped to bring posterity to Norwich and Norfolk. What I didn't realise is that at one point they made up almost one-third of the population of the city - around 6,000 out of a total of 18,000. The Strangers remarked on how they were accepted and how friendly local people were and many became leading citizens and there will be many descendants locally today.
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Yesterday's trip as I have mentioned was to Wiveton and we had a good look round the village church and then round Cley Church. Both were large and very plain buildings. Wiveton in particular had a number of very interesting plaques as you will see from my photographs. I will delve into some of these in future blogs.
Oh and following a request, there's one of the other threequarters with her famous green coat which is a slight play on words on the Leonard Cohen song "Famous Blue Raincoat."
Sorry the photos are all mixed up but that seems to be what happens randomly.