Old Catton
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Old Catton is a suburban village (population 5954) to the north-east of Norwich, England. The area of the parish is approximately 475 acres (1.9 km²).
Anna Sewell, a resident of Old Catton wrote Black Beauty while living there.
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Catton Park, around (the new) Catton Hall was laid out by Humphry Repton in 1788 and was his first paid commission though not a subject of one of his famous "Red Books".
A small gated garden contains remnants of Repton's original garden including a highly unusual clamshell fountain in small oval pond at Parkside Drive Norwich NR6 7DP.
The park (and the adjoining "Deer Park") are designated Grade II* on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Historic Interest. Some 28 hectares of parkland remain, and this area is undergoing restoration to open it to community use. Most of the park to the north has been used for a modern housing development, though within it the former laundry and some of the perimeter wall of the Hall remains.
Catton Old Hall is now a small hotel.
The Church of St Margaret is a round tower flint design with extensions. It is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.
Gates to the village Hall were commissioned by Samuel Gurney Buxton of Catton Hall and made by the village blacksmith, William Badcock.
[edit] References
- ^ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council, 2001. "Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes."
