Gt. Snoring Village Sign
Plate reads “2009 · D CAPES” · crossroads green, Great Snoring, Norfolk, England · photographed 2014 and 2015 (camera dates)
Photo: Adrian S Pye / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0), as also published in Yes, These Places Are Real (12 Photos).
A round ornamental frame on a post holds a church tower, tall ears of wheat with red poppies and three birds, above a green name board that reads “GT. SNORING”. A small plate on the ring reads “2009 · D CAPES”. Adrian S Pye photographed it in September 2014, and Philip Halling caught it in August 2015 on the village’s crossroads green, beside a red telephone box. Source Source Checked
Seen Nov 2015: the Great Snoring Parish Council newsletter for November/December 2015 prints a photo of the sign on its front page. That is a publication date, not a camera date. Source Checked
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đź’ˇ 4 things to know
- The parish uses it as its badgeThe parish council’s November/December 2015 newsletter puts a photo of the round sign on its front page, next to the masthead. Source Checked
- A different sign stood there in 2008In June 2008 Evelyn Simak photographed a cloud-shaped sign reading “GREAT SNORING”, with a mill scene on top, at the same spot (the two photos’ geotags are about 5 m apart). By September 2014 the round “GT. SNORING” sign was there, and a plate on it is dated 2009. Source Source Checked
- On the village greenNorth Norfolk’s conservation-area description puts the village sign and a listed K6 telephone kiosk on the triangular grassed island at the crossroads at the southern end of the village. Source Checked
- Named after SnearThe 1086 Domesday Book calls the village Snaringa or Snarringes, named after an inhabitant called Snear, according to Wikipedia. Source Reported
đź“Ť Where it is
On the triangular green at the crossroads at the southern end of Great Snoring, where Dilldash Lane meets the Fakenham Road, next to a K6 telephone kiosk. Adrian S Pye’s 2014 photo is geotagged 52.8710, 0.8923. Source Source Checked
Opens a Google Maps search for the 2014 photo’s coordinates; no Street View panorama was checked for this file.
🗓️ Sightings
- 200817 Jun
A different, earlier sign at this spot · Geograph date
- 201425 Sep
Photographed · Geograph date
- 201510 Aug
Photographed on the crossroads green · Geograph date
- 2015Nov
Pictured in the parish newsletter · publication date
Green stamps mark dated photographs of this sign; amber stamps mark a publication date and the earlier sign that stood here before it.
🗞️ In the sources
“the village sign and a listed K6 telephone kiosk are positioned here”
Newsletter
Front page with a photo of the round Gt. Snoring sign beside the masthead.
âś… The facts
- Design
- Round frame with a church tower, ears of wheat with poppies and birds, on a post above a green name board Source Checked
- Installed
- Plate dated 2009; photos show a different sign here in June 2008 and this one by September 2014 Source Source Checked
- Plate
- “2009 · D CAPES” on the ring above the post; probably the maker’s name, but no other source we found confirms who D Capes is Source Unconfirmed
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All sources & image credits
- Wikimedia Commons: Great Snoring village sign (Adrian S Pye, 25 Sep 2014)
- Wikimedia Commons: Village sign, Great Snoring (Adrian S Pye, 25 Sep 2014)
- Wikimedia Commons: Road junction in Great Snoring (Philip Halling, 10 Aug 2015)
- Wikimedia Commons: Village sign (Evelyn Simak, 17 Jun 2008), the earlier sign
- Great Snoring Parish Council: Newsletter, November/December 2015 (PDF)
- North Norfolk District Council: Great Snoring Conservation Area, form and character description (PDF)
- Wikipedia: Great Snoring
- Hero photo: Great Snoring village sign, Adrian S Pye / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (WAU media copy)
- More photos: Road junction in Great Snoring, Philip Halling / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Share image: the hero photo fitted to a 1600Ă—900 canvas with blurred side fill.
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