What is recorded here
Hoe Common came into being as part of an Inclosure Act in 1811. It was an allotment for the poor, where gorse was gathered for fuel and bracken for animal bedding. / The common is acidic heathland, which is increasingly rare in Norfolk.
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- Hoe Common Conservation
Places near here
Beetley Meadows (Biffa Award Platinum Jubilee Trail)Visitor information · 576 yd
Gressenhall Farm and WorkhouseMuseum · 1375 yd
Hoe HallListed building · 1406 yd
Union HouseListed building · 1416 yd
New PlantationWood · 1441 yd
Wensum WayVisitor information · 1500 yd
Sustrans milepostMonument or public art · 2.1 mi
Stone milestone on B1145Monument or public art · 2.2 mi
Fish sculpture, fishing lakes, BillingfordPublic sculpture · 2.2 mi
The Assembly RoomsMemorial · 2.3 mi
Scarning FenNature reserve · 3.2 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 3.7 miOther information
Photo: Adrian Hodge · CC BY-SA 2.0