page_title: Gunpowder magazine
section_title: Sedgeford, Norfolk
hierarchical_section_title: Gunpowder magazine / In the United Kingdom / In England / Sedgeford, Norfolk
caption_attribution_description: English: Magazine Cottage on Peddars Way in Sedgeford, an old Gunpowder Store built by the Le Strange family during the Civil War in the late 17th Century
context_page_description: A gunpowder magazine is a magazine designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety. Gunpowder, until superseded, was a universal explosive used in the military and for civil engineering: both applications required storage magazines. Most magazines were purely functional and tended to be in remote and secure locations. They are the successor to the earlier powder towers and powder houses.
context_section_description: Magazine Cottage in Sedgeford was built during the 17th century by the Le Strange Family as a gunpowder store during the English Civil War. It is now a residential house and a landmark for the many walkers of the ancient Roman road Peddars Way; it is said that a secret passageway led from the house to the coast.
caption: Magazine, the old gunpowder store at Sedgeford
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