Complex sentence: The family of Paston takes its name from a Norfolk village about twenty miles (32 km) north of Norwich, and the first member of the family about whom anything is known was living in this village early in the 15th century.
Split into simpler sentences: The family of Paston takes its name from a Norfolk village about twenty miles (32 km) north of Norwich. The first member of the family about whom anything is known was living in this village early in the 15th century.