Whitlingham
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Whitlingham is a small churchless parish, 3 miles E. by S. of Norwich, on the south side of the river Yare. The Church (St. Andrew,) was dilapidated about 1630, and now forms a picturesque ruin, near the verge of a lofty precipice, overlooking the river.
[edit] Whitlingham Country Park
The Great Broad at Whitlingham Park has been created through the process of gravel extraction. The extraction work at Whitlingham began in 1990 with the creation of the Little Broad. In 1995 work began on the Great Broad, with the quarry removing around 220,000 tonnes of material a year.
Gravel from Whitlingham has been used to build projects in the city such as the Castle Mall, The Forum and more recently, the redevelopment of the old Nestlé site into a major new shopping facility Chapelfields.
[edit] Whitlingham Woods
Situated at the lower end of the country park, this area has a history of mining, including flint-knapping from 4000BC, up to the 18th century.
Archaeologist have found a number of artefacts in this area, including humanly struck flint flakes and part of a chipped flint axe-head from the Neolithic period, along with an iron-stained flint blade dating back to the Palaeolithic period (500000 BC to 10001 BC).
Flint-knapping stopped in the 18th century. Since then this area has been developing from open landscape to the woodland of today.
