Mousehold

A group of rebels saw the train from Mousehold and ran down into the city to capture it.

Kett and his forces, joined by recruits from Norwich and the surrounding countryside and numbering some 16,000, set up camp on Mousehold Heath to the north-east of the city on 12 July.

Kett and his people were aware of this, and that night they left their camp at Mousehold for lower ground in preparation for battle.

On Friday 12 July the rebels reached Mousehold, where they had a vantage point overlooking Norwich, and set up the camp that was their base for the next six and a half weeks.

The most popular theory is that the dale began in the vicinity of the Plumstead Road East allotments that swept into Valley Drive and into the present remnant of Mousehold, into the Long Valley and out into what is now Gertrude Road and the allotments.

Thousands of rebels charged down from Mousehold and began swimming the Wensum between the Cow Tower and Bishops Gate.