Bulbeck throws down the Gauntlet
Last month's County Council "Commando Raid" on our signs did not
go unremarked in our neighbouring village. This month we reprint a portion of
Tim Burton's Bulbeck Beacon Editorial.
THIS MONTH SEES US NEARER TO SWAFFHAM PRIOR THAN AT ANY TIME IN OUR HISTORY. For those who have not observed the new road signs at the end of Fen Lane, the County Council has now decreed that the highway from there onwards should bear the name High Street, Swaffham Prior. This puts the parish boundary of our sister village at least 200 yards south of the one marked on my Ordnance Survey map, which aligns it with the hedgerow alongside the grounds of Swaffham Prior Hall. Was the Council 'put up' to this by our northern neighbours? If so, may we see the wraith of good Hugh de Bolebec, broadsword in hand, striding north to combat that of Vincent, Prior of Ely.
But that's not the worst of it. Our own village has been renamed 'Swaffam' on the southern sign, turning our noble Swabian name into something more appropriate on a sachet of upholstery cleaner. I hope our Parish Council can rise to this double slight, on our lands and on our venerable name.
