Kett's Heights- 900 years of history

For such a small space with its panoramic views over Norwich, Kett’s Heights has had a long and often turbulent history. The Heights boasts an 11th century chapel, was the headquarters of a Tudor rebellion, a magnet for landscape artists and the site of Norwich’s first gasworks. Now a welcoming public space and nature reserve, John and Vanessa Trevelyan from the Friends of Kett’s Heights take us through 900 years of history.

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Brilliant many thanks

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Very interesting. Thank you.

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My playground as a young boy in the late 60s ,lived on ketts hill

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In the early nineties, I, an unemployed 20 something along with a couple of friends, one of whom was a student and the other a late shift worker, would come to the Heights and simply sit on the bench, near the 1988 Armada torch, and just look at the view with nothing in mind. I imagine we were a young version of Last of the Summer Wine. Back then, you could scramble up a series of steep paths from Gas Hill over what was I think was a car park but was subsequently built over. The view is wonderful, including modern towers which I imagine the Norfolk Society clutch their pearls over, and why the redevelopment of Anglia Square is constantly being scuppered over Cathedral Steeple envy. We probably had little idea that the ruins behind us was a chapel although I do remember being fascinated by them and was aware a priory was around here somewhere, the property of a TRAITOR!!! and that Kett probably ducked cannon balls lobbed at him from the Cathedral grounds. The site was seldom visited. I don't think we explored the rest of the site where the gardens were. The huge gasometers were still about back then and a feature of interest, and redevelopments close by. An old school mucker moved in in 1990 I recall. Us teenagers/early twenties weren't all about necking each other, ultra violence and Neighbours. We loved the Heights.