Blakeney, Norfolk

In the Domesday Book of 1086,[7] Blakeney is recorded under the name Esnuterle (later, Snitterley);[8] the main landholders are noted as Walter Gifford and William de Noyers.

[7] Around the same period Edward III's wife, Queen Philippa is said to have dined on fish caught by Blakeney's fishermen.

Indeed, the calendar of England's Patent Rolls dated 20 April 1343, confirms a grant of alms-seeking across the realms to a local hermit.

This was among the junior houses of a Carmelite region (distinctio) which included Burnham Norton, King's Lynne and Yarmouth the crypt of its senior house is intact and is converted to part of Norwich's Printing Museum which is run by an active printing firm, Jarrold's in the city.

[11] Blakeney Mill in Friary Park is a Grade II listed building and is chiefly of flint with brick dressings (mostly its upper parts) across its three storeys.

[12] In the 19th century a rail branch line from Holt to a new station at Blakeney was planned by the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.

The scheme was never completed, although the junction site at High Kelling now serves as Holt station on the North Norfolk Railway.

A rival proposal for a branch from Cawston to Cley and Blakeney was put forward by the East Norfolk Railway, but this was also not built.

In the area of marshland around Blakeney Point, owned by the National Trust, up to a hundred species of birds can be found throughout the year.

[1] The village's centre is off the northern side of the A149 coast road from King's Lynn to Cromer, with a further part of Blakeney community directly adjoining in the residential estates south of this and also several outlying farms.

[17][page needed] The nearest railway station is at Sheringham, two villages to the east for the Bittern line to Norwich.

St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Blakeney, Norfolk.
The inlet in 1649
Blakeney war memorial