Cottered

Our Group

Comprised 19 walkers led by Tim Alexander.

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The Walk

This was our third walk from the Bull at Cottered.

From the pub we turned right out of the car park and headed along the A507 towards and the church. We then followed the path leading to Cromer Windmill. Here we admired the windmill and then crossed the B1037 and walked down the lane towards Ardeley.

We turned left along Ardeley brook heading towards Brook end. Here we turned left following the path going past horses on our left. We arrived back at The Bull at about 12.00noon. After a change of footwear, we enjoyed a very pleasant meal in the pub.

The map of the walk is shown below

Cottered

Cottered church contains parts that date back to about 1350 when the chancel, south porch and west tower were built. Some other parts of the church date back to the 15th and 16th centuries.

Cottered has a number of notable people associated with the parish:

• The Rev Anthony Trollope, who was the grandfather of the authors Anthony Trollope and Thomas Adolphus Trollope. He was incumbent of Cottered for forty-four years and died in 1806.
• James Cantlie was a British physician. He was a pioneer of first aid, which in 1875 was unknown; even the police had no knowledge of basic techniques such as how to stop serious bleeding and applying splints. He became Surgeon at Charing Cross but resigned to take up a position in Hong Kong. He co-founded the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese; where one of his first pupils was Sun Yat-sen.
• Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Republic of China is commemorated with a blue plaque for the time that he stayed at the Kennels. He was kidnapped by the Imperial Chinese secret service on a visit to James Cantlie in London. Sun Yat-sen was tied up in the Chinese Legation and might well have been shipped back to China and executed had it not been for Cantlie who led a media campaign which not only succeeded in releasing Dr Sun but made him a hero in Britain