Mobile tyres fitting service in Sprowston Norfolk
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Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
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More about Sprowston Norfolk
Sprowston is a suburban village (population 14027[1])
bordering Norwich in Norfolk, England. It is bounded by
Heartsease to the east, Mousehold Heath and the suburb
of New Sprowston to the south (in Norwich), Old Catton
to the west, and by open farmland to the North.
It is the largest parish in Norfolk and the most
populous in Broadland District.
Sprowston was first mentioned (as 'Sprowestuna') in the
Domesday Book of 1086. The name is Anglo-Saxon and means
'the settlement belonging to Sprow".
By 1186 one Manor was held by the Mounteney family, on
behalf of Sir Richard de Luci, who kept it for some 250
years, whilst the other, held by the de Sproustons and
then the Aslakes, was owned by the Bishop of Norwich. In
1545 the Jermy family granted Mounteney Manor to John
Corbet. The first Sprowston Hall was built in 1560.
The Aslakes Manor passed to an eminent family of Norfolk
Gentry, the Calthorpes (subsequently related by marriage
to family of Anne Boleyn). It was later sold to Sir
Thomas Corbet (owner of Mounteney Manor) and in 1592 the
two Manors were united.
Monuments to the Corbet family can be found at the
parish church of St Mary and St Margaret, Church Lane.
The Sprowston Corbets were Royalists in the Civil War;
Thomas Corbet was knighted by Charles I at Royston.
However, Sir Thomas' uncle, Miles Corbet, who was Member
of Parliament for Great Yarmouth, was the last signatory
to the death warrant of Charles I and was himself
executed at the restoration of Charles II.
Sir Thomas Corbet became High Sheriff of Norfolk in
1662. He died without an heir and the manor of Sprowston
was sold to Sir Thomas Adams.
Effigy from the tomb of Sir Thomas AdamsAdams had been
Lord Mayor of London in 1645. He had given Charles II
?10,000 whilst he was in exile, and in 1660 he
accompanied General Monck to escort the King back to
England.
Adams endowed a Professorship of Arabic at Cambridge and
had the Gospels printed in Persian, which he described
as 'throwing a stone at the head of Mahomet'. Although
he died in London in 1667 his body was brought to
Sprowston for burial in a barrel vault excavated under
the altar at St Mary and St Margaret and a large marble
monument was erected above it.
In the 18th century the manor was sold to Sir Lambert
Blackwell, a Director of the South Sea Companyand he was
created baronet in 1718. In the 19th century the manor
went through a number of families until it came into the
hands of the Gurneys. In 1876 John Gurney, who was mayor
of Norwich and blind, rebuilt Sprowston Hall. In 1885 he
gave money for the building of St Cuthbert's Church and
a new vicarage to serve the development known as New
Sprowston which was being built.
Sprowston Mill was built in 1730 and made famous by John
Crome, of the Norwich School of Painting. It burnt down
in 1933, a few days before it was to be handed over to
the Norfolk Archaeological Trust, but is still used as a
symbol by Sprowston High School and is on the village
sign.
Also important to Sprowston's history, and now within
the boundary of the City of Norwich, is Mousehold Heath
(much reduced in size) where the army of Robert Kett was
encamped in 1549.
Sprowston Manor is now a hotel and golf course.
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