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The grandeur of Norfolk's own Downton Abbey, Costessey Hall in Old Costessey - Credit: Archant Some are in ruins, some are lost to time, others are guarded by ghosts: Norfolk once boasted dozens of county houses and halls, many of which fell to the wrecking ball. Weird Norfolk has chosen 10 favourites that remain only as ruins, photographs or distant memories, including former sanitoriums and asylums, scenes of dreadful murders and homes of ghosts destined to walk the invisible corridors eternally. Boyland Hall There are believed to be around 200 lost villages in Norfolk and Boyland – close...

The grandeur of Norfolk's own Downton Abbey, Costessey Hall in Old Costessey - Credit: Archant Some are in ruins, some are lost to time, others are guarded by ghosts: Norfolk once boasted dozens of county houses and halls, many of which fell to the wrecking ball. Weird Norfolk has chosen 10 favourites that remain only as ruins, photographs or distant memories, including former sanitoriums and asylums, scenes of dreadful murders and homes of ghosts destined to walk the invisible corridors eternally. Boyland Hall There are believed to be around 200 lost villages in Norfolk and Boyland – close...

Government money helped and by the autumn of 1924 almost 500 houses had been or were being built. Many people had gardens for the first time, grew their own vegetables and the council ran competitions for the best displays. Mile Cross Gardens, the city's first civic gardens planned on a council housing estate which were opened in 1929. Dated: July 27th, 1993. - Credit: Archant Library Roads were often named after famous Norfolk and Norwich people from days gone by such as: Edward Valpy, former high master at Norwich Grammar School, who was also rector at All Saints, Thwaite, and vicar of St M...