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North Pickenham is a village in the Breckland district of mid-Norfolk, East Anglia, England. It lies three miles, as the crow flies, from the Georgian market town of Swaffham. At the 2001 census it had a population of 500 and an area of 1,015 hectares (3.92 square miles)〔(Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes ). Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.〕 Norfolk (pop. 832,400) has about one-thirtieth of the population density of Central London, the tenth lowest density county in the country, with 38% of the county’s population living in the three major urban areas of Norwich (194,200), Great Yarmouth (66,400) and King's Lynn (40,700).〔(Norfolk Government Statistics )〕 The River Wissey cuts through the village at Houghton Lane bridge,〔(River Wissey at Houghton Lane 52°37'35.18"N 0°45'19.63"E )〕 following the course of Meadow Lane, close to the river's source at Bradenham. Its sister village South Pickenham is two miles away through pretty, narrow country lanes. North Pickenham has a Parish Council Tax (Band D).〔(Breckland Yearbook )〕 ==History== The village is after its Saxon leader Pinca,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pinca )〕 Pica〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Institute for Name Studies. Search Pickenham )〕〔(INS result )〕 or maybe Piccea with ham meaning homestead, it became a pagan Anglo Saxon settlement in the 5th century AD. It remained part of a Saxon kingdom until the Norman Conquest in 1066 when it became part of the honour of the Earl of Richmond, Yorkshire. The old village sign showed a Saxon (left) and a Norman (right) warrior (see Great Britain in the Middle Ages) with Richmond Castle and the river Wissey in the background; The sign was designed by Ben Ripper, a local historian, and carved by Steve Eggleton. A new village statue by Tom Yorke replaced the deteriorating old sign and was unveiled by the incumbent MP George Freeman on 22 October 2010. It was once in the Hundred of South Greenhoe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GenUKI )〕 The former Royal Air Force station, RAF North Pickenham, was located nearby hosting American B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. In the late 1950s and early 1960s three PGM-17 Thor nuclear missiles were located here with early cases of CND acts of civil disobedience. The airbase is now the site of a turkey farm owned by Bernard Matthews, a karting circuit and an eight-turbine wind farm run by North Pickenham Wind Farm LLP.〔(Enertrag UK )〕 A 'stealth blade', which is trying to be invisible to aviation radar, was tested on one of the turbines here in October 2009.〔('Stealth Blade' Watton and Swaffham Times )〕 In February 2009 Bernard Matthews detailed plans to put two turbines at the airfield site,〔(Bernard Matthews turbine proposal )〕 an independent development to the eight turbines already there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Pickenham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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