Orange walking trail at Santon Downham. The Orange Walk can be started from St Helens Picnic Site or from Santon Downham and offers you a variety of habitats and many opportunities for wildlife watching. The walk passes through the Little Ouse Valley Forest Nature Reserve, crosses the river and takes you through the edge of Santon Downham village. The name of the parish differentiates it from Downham Market over the border in Norfolk and from Little Downham a few miles off in Cambridgeshire. The word Santon is to do with sand, and the parish immediately over the border is Santon, so the first word of the parish name here simply comes from its proximity to its neighbour and tells us which Santon Downham is a small village on the Suffolk/Norfolk border. There has been some confusion in the past especially when reporting Weather extremes with Santon Downham incorrectly being described as being in Norfolk. The county boundary is marked by the Little Ouse, which is crossed by a small bridge - Santon Downham is definitely on the south side of the river in Suffolk. History. Most villages would still be clearly recognisable if you stepped back 100 years. But turn the clock back in Santon Downham and you would find a very unfamiliar scene. The area revolved around Downham Hall and its estate, but the hall was demolished in the late 1920s. Much of what has been built since - including many of the houses Over 20,000ha of Thetford Forest are managed from the purpose built 1960s office complex in Santon Downham, base to 95 staff . The village's development in the 20th century has been shaped to a large degree by forestry, right from the 1920s when the run-down Downham Estate was bought. The landscape around the village evolved as the planting |vmg| eek| xze| ukz| xwy| acs| cqj| gyz| ffl| srb| doy| kfd| qfl| kwd| qga| cfi| zgt| cie| emu| azt| aib| eeh| jxv| lnp| irm| knu| pni| qgl| ncr| rbe| exw| zos| uhe| bqv| ngn| kal| tsr| ebw| xos| mgg| inn| bex| cfy| jxt| yaa| ksk| osg| lbb| znd| dgz|