What is "feltwell"

Feltwell is a village 10 miles west of Thetford, Norfolk, England, and is in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

Feltwell has the largest area of any parish in Norfolk. It is a thriving community. The village has a large modern primary school which was originally built during the post WW2 building period to cope with the 1946-48 "baby-boom". The original school buildings are of late vVctorian era mock perpendicular flint faced single story buildings which catered for all age groups on either side of Long Beck Road. The pubs, The Lodge originally a general grocery store and the West End, are popular spots for the village locals and there is also a Social Club. The village also has two churches St Mary's and St Nicholas (pictured) together with a Methodist chapel. The street known as Long Beck as against Short Beck obtained its name from the stream (depicted on OS maps as the common bank dyke) which was spring fed from a pond in the south east corner of the new primary school site. Feltwell was virtually a sea-shore settlement during the Roman occupation, when the New Cut relief channel was excavated several Roman villas were discovered along the excavation route of the river and were injudiciously destroyed.

The village a site of a busy RAF bomber command center in WW2 has other neighbouring is RAF airfields USAF, notably RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall.