NEIGHBOURHOOD***


Transcribed from the 1841 Leak edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

                          [Picture: Book cover]





                                    A
                             GUIDE TO CROMER
                          AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.


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                              BY A VISITOR;

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                                  “Music is in thy billows,
    Grandeur doth walk thy beach, sit on thy cliffs,
    Wave in thy woods, and Nature’s smile or frown,
    As cast o’er thee, is beautiful.”

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                          PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY
                              LEAK, CROMER;
              JERROLD, AND STEVENSON, MATCHATT, & STEVENSON,
                                 NORWICH;
                             SHALDERS, HOLT;
                 BLYTH, NORTH-WALSHAM; CLEMENTS, AYLSHAM;
                   AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. LONDON.

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                                  1841.

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                                 LONDON:
                        PRINTED BY JOSEPH RICKERBY
                             SHERBOURN LANE.

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PREFACE.


A GUIDE to CROMER and its immediate neighbourhood having been long
desired, the following is presented to the Public.  The Author pretends
to no originality, nor offers the present as perfect in its kind.  It was
undertaken simply because a deficiency was expressed, and a few hours of
recreation gave the opportunity of attempting to supply it.  All
criticism therefore, it is hoped, will be spared as to the execution of
the design, and that the intention only will be regarded.  Sincere thanks
are returned to those individuals whose information has proved of such
material assistance towards the completion of the work, with a full
acknowledgment, that, if any worth be attached to it, that worth is due
to them.

Cromer, _August_ 3, 1841.




A GUIDE TO CROMER
AND
ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.


THERE are few places in this kingdom which combine to a greater degree
the advantages of a salubrious and invigorating air, a fine and open sea,
or more pleasing scenery than Cromer.  The lover of nature, the student,
or the invalid may frequent its shores with equal benefit, and with equal
gratification.  That it is not more known, or become a place of more
general resort, is the result rather of circumstances, than of any
deficiency in itself.  True, indeed, it has not the metropolitan luxuries
of Brighton, or the elegances of some of our more southern favourites to
recommend it, neither does it offer any resources of gaiety for the
amusement of its visitors; but nevertheless, it will never want admirers,
so long as an unvitiated taste, a desire of scientific knowledge, or a
wish for the renovation of health shall exist.

Cromer is situated on the most north-easterly point of the Norfolk coast,
nine miles N. N. W. of North Walsham, ten miles E. N. E. of Holt, eleven
miles N. by E. of Aysham, twenty-two miles north of Norwich, and one
hundred and thirty N. E. by N. of London.  It is built on lofty cliffs,
not less than sixty feet high, nearest the town, and is sheltered on
three sides by an amphitheatre of hills, partly covered with woods, and
commanding a view of the wide waters of the German Ocean, nowhere to be
excelled in extent or sublimity.  Its population had increased between
the years 1801 and 1836, from six hundred and seventy-six souls to twelve
hundred and thirty-two: by the last census it appeared that it was twelve
hundred and twenty-nine; but this apparent decline may be accounted for
by the time of year in which it was taken, when no visitors were in the
place, and the greatest part of the fishermen were absent at Yarmouth,
engaged in the mackerel fishery, where their business frequently takes
them.  The parish now comprises only about seven hundred acres of land,
mostly belonging to the Countess of Listowel, (widow of the late George
Thomas Windham, Esq., of Cromer, and one of the daughters of the late
Admiral Windham, of Felbrigg,) who is also the Lady of the Manor, and the
owner of Cromer Hall.

For some centuries the sea has continued to make considerable
encroachments on this part of the coast.  Cromer itself was formerly
situated at some distance from it, and formed in the reign