[2] RAF Knettishall was built close to Coney Weston from late 1942 by W&G French and occupied by the USAF 388th Bomb Group from June 1943 until April 1945.

Named at a civic ceremony in honour of Paine’s subsequent contribution to the young American colony’s quest for independence.

The recent invention of tin plate induced him to commission a local blacksmith to make a design in metal of the wooden whistle fipple flute.

The resulting cheap and easy to play instrument was a huge success and he eventually was wealthy enough to return to Coney Weston and buy the farm he had once been a labourer on.

In 1988 the population of the village was doubled by a boundary change which officially incorporated the Swan end of Barningham into Coney Weston.

The Swan, on the Thetford Rd has hosted Frogstock in 2009 and may return sometime in the future and an incredibly well funded bowls[permanent dead link‍] club.