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Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south.
Hand-drawn map of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire from 1576. During pre-Roman times, most of Lincolnshire was inhabited by the Corieltauvi people. [citation needed] The language of the area at that time would have been Common Brittonic, the precursor to modern Welsh. The name Lincoln was derived from Lindum Colonia. [citation needed]
The map shows the Wash and the North Sea, as well as places within the counties of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. Part of an Ordnance Survey map, at the scale of one inch to the mile, from a New Popular Edition map published in 1946 Pollokshaws on Roy's Military Survey of Scotland (1747–1755) [1]
The Lincolnshire coast. Lincolnshire Fens: a region of flat, marshy land (much of it reclaimed from the sea) that predominates in the southern and south-eastern areas of the county (most particularly around the local towns of Boston and Spalding and extending around The Wash to the county border with Norfolk.
The Wash is a shallow natural rectangular bay and multiple estuary on the east coast of England in the United Kingdom.It is an inlet of the North Sea and is the largest multiple estuary system in the UK, as well as being the largest natural bay in England and is the outflow for the rivers Witham, Welland, Nene and the Great Ouse.
The Fens lie inland of the Wash, and are an area of nearly 1,500 sq mi (3,900 km 2) in the south east of Lincolnshire, most of Cambridgeshire (which also includes parts of the old historic county of Huntingdonshire), and western most parts of Norfolk and Suffolk.
In a 2022 study by Joscha Gretzinger et al., the populations of Norfolk and Suffolk were found to be the group with the lowest amount of Iron Age/Roman period British Isles-related ancestry, with only about 11–12.7% of their ancestry being derived from that group, while having one of the highest amounts of Continental North European (45.9 ...
The table contains a list of the 58 principal tripoints for the historic counties of England prior to 1800. [15] As the English county boundaries had remained essentially unchanged since the eleventh century, [16] the list can thus be seen to represent the "original" locations of the English county tripoints.