Hoxne is a lovely village close to the Suffolk/Norfolk border which has a wealth of history associated with it but it's two main claims to fame are as the place where in AD 870 King Edmund, King of East Anglia was captured and killed by the Vikings, he became a martyr for refusing to denounce his faith and share his throne with one of the invaders. Hoxne's other claim to fame is known as the Hoxne hoard, in 1992 a local man while helping to look for a friends lost hammer in a nearby field found a hoard of nearly 15000 Roman coins along with 200 other gold and silver objects buried in a chest. The find is one of the largest hoards of Roman treasure ever found and is now on display at the British Museum.

A view of the village from the village green.

This curious old wooden building used to be the village butchers shop.

Goldbrook Bridge, legend has it that on this spot King Edmund was captured by the Danes in AD 870 after being given away by a wedding party while hiding under the bridge, to this day it is said that no bride shall cross the bridge on her way to church for fear of bringing bad luck.

The scene on this carving on the village hall depicts King Edmund hiding under Goldbrook Bridge.

This memorial erected to King Edmund the Martyr on the spot where a oak tree was said to have stood and to which King Edmund was tied and shot with arrows before being beheaded, the oak tree fell in 1843 and on breaking up Viking arrowheads was found embedded in it. After originally being buried at the site of his martyrdom the body was later enshrined in a monastery at nearby Beodericsworth, later to become Bury St Edmunds.

View from the memorial, which stands in the middle of an oil seed rape field.

The village well with it's lovely hexagonal canopy.

This thatched cottage is undergoing repairs to its thatch; you can see how thick the thatch has to be to keep out the weather.

Looking towards the village green with the Swan public house, one of the oldest building in the village on the left.

Behind the pub these Morris dancers were hard at work practicing for the long summers dancing which lay ahead.

A view of the church of St Peter and St Paul, with its somewhat overgrown graveyard.

A wedding service was taking place in the church and awaiting the bride and groom was this lovely 1923 Rolls Royce 20/25.