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The Port of Norwich is a small port on the River Wensum at Norwich, Norfolk. The use of the river as a port stretches back at least to medieval times, however its current standing as a port dates to an Act of Parliament on 28 May 1827.
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Norwich (/ ˈ n ɒr ɪ dʒ,-ɪ tʃ / ⓘ) is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town.It lies by the River Wensum, about 100 mi (160 km) north-east of London, 40 mi (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 mi (105 km) east of Peterborough.
Lower Paleolithic (2,500,000 to 300,000 BC) In 2005 it was discovered that Norfolk contained one of the earliest finds of European man. [2] The find revealed flint tools, similar to those found on the Suffolk coast at Pakefield which were dated at around 668,000 BC [2] and a find at Happisburgh in the "Cromer Forest Bed" has been dated as being approximately 900,000 years old and has given us ...
Transport in East Anglia consists of an extensive road and rail network. Main A roads, such as the A12 and A47 link the area to the rest of the UK, and the A14 links the Midlands to the Port of Felixstowe. This is the busiest container port in the UK, dealing with over 40% of UK container traffic and is a major gateway port into the country. [21]
Josephine Walpole, Art and Artists of the Norwich School, Antique Collector's Club, 1999. Tom Williamson, Ivan Ringwood & Sarah Spooner, Lost Country Houses of Norfolk: History, Archaeology and Myth, The Boydell Press, 2015. Pip Wright, I Read it in the Local Rag: Selections from Suffolk and Norfolk Papers 1701-1900, Poppyland, 2006.
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Pulls Ferry Pulls Ferry depicted in 1851. Pulls Ferry is a former ferry house located on the River Wensum in Norwich, Norfolk.It is a flint building and was once a 15th-century watergate.