Oby

Oby is incredibly difficult to find - lying, as it does, in the flat lands bordering the River Bure. It isn't marked on the Ordance Survey map and there are few sign posts on the ground. (Turn off the B1152 and head for Thurne.)

In 1979, the poet George MacBeth (1932-1992) and his wife Lisa St Aubin de Terán moved into the The Old Rectory here. The broadland landscape provided inspiration for his 1982 collection: Poems from Oby.

Here is the first verse of his poem Yuletide in Norfolk
 

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Oby Rectory.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's novel The Corner that Held Them (1954) is set in Oby during the 14th Century.

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Sylvia Townsend Warner