Editing Blakeney, Norfolk (section)

==History==
In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086,<ref name="doom">The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Norfolk page 182/183, Blakeney, {{ISBN|1-85833-440-3}}</ref> Blakeney is recorded under the name Esnuterle (later, Snitterley);<ref name=wright/> the main landholders are noted as Walter Gifford and William de Noyers. The settlement first appears under the name Blakeney in a document which dates from 1340.<ref name="doom"/> Around the same period [[Edward III of England|Edward III]]'s wife, [[Philippa of Hainault|Queen Philippa]] is said to have dined on fish caught by Blakeney's fishermen.<ref name="doom"/>

The village's name means 'Black island'.

===Haven===
[[File:Salthouse ancient channel map.jpg|350px|thumb|The inlet in 1649]]
Blakeney Haven was a deeper inlet on the north coast of [[Norfolk]] into which the [[River Glaven]] flowed. Sheltered behind [[Blakeney Point]], it was a major shipping area in the [[Middle Ages]], with relatively important North Norfolk ports at [[Wiveton]], [[Cley next the Sea]] and Blakeney itself. Cley and Wiveton silted up in the 17th century, but Blakeney prospered, especially after the channel to the Haven was deepened in 1817. [[Packet ship]]s ran from that port to [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]] and [[London]] from 1840. This trade declined as ships became too large for the harbour, and it is now silted up with access only for small boats.<ref name=pevsner>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author2=Wilson, Bill |title=The Buildings of England Norfolk I: Norwich and North-East Norfolk |year=2002 |location=New Haven and London |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0-300-09607-0 |pages=394–397}}</ref>

From the 12th century Blakeney had a reputation for acts of piracy: between 1328 and 1350 it is recorded that men of Blakeney boarded two vessels sailing from [[Flanders]] and sailed them back to Blakeney haven, where they were stripped of their cargoes. Many a foreign merchant ship which sought shelter in the haven found its cargo stolen. Such was the lawlessness of the residents that the village refused to supply a ship for the battle against the [[Spanish Armada]].<ref name="doom"/><ref name=wright>{{cite journal |last=Wright |first=John |year=2002 |title=The origins of Blakeney Church |journal=Glaven Historian |volume=5 |pages=26–34}}</ref>

==='Chapel'===
{{main|Blakeney Chapel}}
This building now in adjoining [[Cley next the Sea]] appears never to have been a chapel and may merely have been a hermitage.  Indeed, the calendar of England's [[Patent Rolls]] dated 20 April 1343, confirms a grant of alms-seeking across the realms to a local hermit.

===Friary===
This was among the junior houses of a Carmelite region (''distinctio'') which included [[Burnham Norton]], [[King's Lynn]]e and [[Great Yarmouth|Yarmouth]] the crypt of its senior house is intact and is converted to part of [[Norwich]]'s Printing Museum which is run by an active printing firm, Jarrold's in the [[cathedral city|city]].<ref>[http://www.carmelite.org/chronology/Norwich.pdf The Medieval Carmelite Priory at Norwich: A Chronology] Richard Copsey, O.Carm., London, 2006.  Retrieved 2013-07-15</ref>

The northern part of Friary Park by the seashore is a modest caravan park for visitors, with the remainder being the relatively small Friary Farm.

Friary Farmhouse incorporates remains of the Carmelite Friary founded in 1296 with its church consecrated in 1302.  This was the gift of Maud de Roos or latterly de Ros, née de Vaux, wife of [[William de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros]] who distinguished himself in the Crusades, was knighted and granted land at Cley and Blakeney.

In 1321 their son, [[William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros|William]] completed the foundation.

The house has a date-stone: "1667 T.R.I" and is made of flint and brick with some stone quoins.  Despite modern windows and most exterior work it incorporates medieval walling, a buttress, various blocked openings, fragments of window surrounds and stonework including a re-used carved kneeler on the south-west gable with coat of arms.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1253063|desc=Friary Farmhouse|grade=II|access-date=15 July 2013}}</ref>

===Windmill===
{{main|Blakeney Windmill}}
Blakeney Mill in Friary Park is a Grade II [[listed building]] and is chiefly of flint with brick dressings (mostly its upper parts) across its three storeys.  It appears on a map of 1769 in this exact location, following earlier mention from the [[Domesday Book]] of mills in the village.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1170652|desc=Blakeney Mill|access-date=15 July 2013}}</ref>