B1149  The Holt Road and  'The Street'

 

The B1149 Holt Road that passes through Horsford, from north to south, is the most direct route between Holt and Norwich. Faden's 1779 large-scale map of the county of Norfolk, at one inch to the mile, shows that the road's route has changed very little over the centuries.

 

Whilst locally in Horsford small changes were made across the years, the road appears to have been impacted very little by Parliamentary Enclosure Acts.

 

On the early map the road is labeled as the  Norwich to Cley-next-the-Sea  road. This hints at the road's importance right back to the 13th century, when Cley was a busy seaport. Wealthy Norwich merchants would have used the road to transport their goods to the port, where ships carried trade between Norfolk and the Low Countries.

 

The term  'The Street'  used to refer locally to the Holt Road between the Beck and The Crown.