Martham is blessed with a long historical background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until recently it was claimed the village originated from\nSaxon times and undoubtably its name derives from that period, but archeological\nsurveys and more recent finds prove that the area has seen the presence of man here for many\nmillennia. Some local prehistoric finds show that man hunted and gathered in\nthe region long before Martham, or even East Anglia, existed at a time when\nwhat is now England was physically connected to Europe. Finds have been made\nlocally representing every period through Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, Iron,\nRoman, Anglo Saxon and Medieval periods. The pages that are listed here in the\nmenu under \u201cAncient History\u201d take you on a tour of these periods and have many illustrations.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The village is exceptionally lucky to have special records like the Domesday <\/a><\/em>records of 1086 that show it had an unusually large number of freemen in comparison with the rest of England; an account of the Anglo-Danish<\/a><\/em> Village of Martham in 1101 by Rev. William Hudson; the <\/a>Stowe Survey<\/a><\/em> of 1292 and Manorial Rolls from 1272 to the middle of the 14th<\/sup> century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, some notable books have been written like \u2018Medieval Flegg\u2019 by Barbara Cornford*; \u2018The Strangers Guidebook for the Polite Village of Martham<\/a><\/em>\u2019 by Robert Porter; \u2018Martham in Times Past\u2019 by Christine Orton and \u2018Glimpses into the History of the Village of Martham\u2019 by Ann Meakin. Local historians have also greatly contributed to our community history by producing a variety of papers and I have shamelessly drawn on all these sources, and others, to try to bring the strands of the history of our village together in one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *ISBN 0 948 400 986 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now go to the menu or take a short cut to historical periods here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prehistoric<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bronze Age<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Iron Age<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Roman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anglo Saxon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anglo-Danish<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Norman & Medieval<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Martham is blessed with a long historical background. Until recently it was claimed the village originated from Saxon times and undoubtably its name derives from that period, but archeological surveys and more recent finds prove that the area has seen the presence of man here for many millennia. Some local prehistoric finds show that man … Continue reading “Ancient History of Martham”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t