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A pleasant village on the north bank of the river Wensum, and the first record relates to the time of Edward the Confessor.
Taverham Hall is a wonderful Elizabethan mansion rebuilt in 1859 after the original building was destroyed by fire. It is now a preparatory school.
The village boasts a fine church dating from the Saxon period and although mentioned in the Domesday Book, it is basically Norman and added to in the decorated style in about 1350.
Dedicated to St Edmund, King and Martyr also has a patron saint, St Walstan who was a Taverham man
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- Landmark