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| | Castle Acre - NFK ENG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Castle Acre, a village and a parish in Norfolk. |
 | | The priory was a cell to Lewes, included an area of 291 acres, had a cruciform church 218 feet long, a chapter-house 40 feet by 20, and a refectory 110 feet by 26, and was given at the dissolution to the Duke of Norfolk. |
 | | Little is known of Castle Acre life from the 16th to 18th centuries, but by the mid-19th century it was an open village (that is, the poor and homeless could move in and houses could be built; whereas in a closed village, all the cottages belonged to the landowners and strict control was exercised). |
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