Place names.... Seasalter in Kent is named for saltings that were active back in the Iron Age. I heard that they are again harvesting salt thereabouts! Apologies for going off list but I did live hear there at one time(1955-57 in fact).... http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/salthouse.html The church is indeed a magnificent "Norfolkian" edifice and Simon Knott's site does it credit. http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/salthouse/salthouse.htm This (from the site sums up why I love North Norfolk. I'm not ashamed to say I have tears in my eyes as I type... You can taste the salt in the air, the sea-spangled freshness that blusters across the green rise of the churchyard. You can sense the swell; and there it is, a leaden line stretching beyond the church, beyond the land, ceaseless, always changing. The sea is the handmaiden of Norfolk, her fortune and her fate. By the way, those talking of smoked fish should not forget Bloaters http://www.cleysmokehouse.com/bloaters.asp D On 5 December 2011 10:28, xpn11 <xpn11@aol.com> wrote: > I think Salthouse might come from where they made salt from sea water, > but I might be wrong. In the Doomsday Book many of the coastal villages > from Caister around the coast and along the Wash edge eg the Walpoles, > Holbeach and Fleet in Lincolnshire etc had salt pans where sea water > was let in at high tide and then the water allowed to evaporate and > then heated -quite a complicated process and you can see about it here > if interested > > http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol38/38_134_163.pdf > I have seen what looks like a likely mound of saltern waste at Mautby . > I have a dim recollection of reading that the heating the water in > tubs used some of the peat from the diggings which created the Norfolk > Broads. > The fishing industry of course used great quantities of salt to salt > down fish, but meat was also salted to last through winter or to > preserve the part of the carcase that could not be used immediately. My > late grandmother's large earthenware salting pot stands in my house with > flowers in it! My father was not over fond of salt pork and bottled > runner beans which were used in the winter months when he was a child > living at Fence Bank, Walpole St Peter. > The butcher in my village still sells salt pork as well as the more > usual salt beef. > Rosie > > On 05/12/2011 08:41, Mike Fry wrote: > > On 2011/12/05 02:28, Janice Doughty wrote: > > > >> What a strange name for a village, Salthouse. Though I suppose it must > mean > >> that it had a lot of Salthouses for salting the fish. I remember I > watched > >> one of Rick Stein's cooking shows on cable not long ago and he was at a > >> village where they salted the fish in these old timber sheds. > > Precisely! Smoking and salting fish is traditional right along the whole > of the > > east coast of Britain. Think Kippers and Smoked Haddock. > > > >> I just Googled Salthouse and saw the lovely old church, on a sloping > green > >> hill near the sea and then photographs of the interior. I suppose that > may > >> have been where Robert married Mary Ann. > > Try this site:<http://www.salthousehistory.co.uk/> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Please note that this e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and then delete this message, any attachments, and all copies and backups from your computer.