Great Yarmouth

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Sights

The Tolhouse, complete with dungeons, dates from the late 13th century and is said to be the oldest civic building in Britain.

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Dungeon - Britain

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The Market place is one of the largest in England, and has been operating since the 13th century.

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Market - 13th century

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The old part of Great Yarmouth is linked to the mainland by Haven Bridge.

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Great Yarmouth railway station, which serves the town, is the terminus of the Wherry Lines from Norwich.

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Great Yarmouth railway station - Wherry Lines - Norwich

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Yarmouth has two seaside piers, Britannia Pier and Wellington Pier.

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Seaside pier - Britannia

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Yarmouth also has an important horseracing track which features a chute allowing races of one mile on the straight.

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There a monument to Horatio Nelson, erected in 1819, 24 years before the completion of Nelson's Column in London, and now surrounded by factories. The monument, that of Britannia seated with shield and trident, faces away from the sea leading to the popular assumption of a mistake during construction. However it was actually built to face Nelson's Norfolk birthplace at Burnham Thorpe. The monument, similar in form but considerably smaller in size than its Trafalgar Square counterpart, was originally planned to mark Nelson's victory at the Nile, but fundraising was not completed until after his death and it was instead dedicated to the "Lord Admiral".

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Horatio Nelson - 1819 - Nelson's Column - London - Burnham Thorpe - Trafalgar Square - Nile

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Charles Dickens used Yarmouth as a key location in his novel David Copperfield. Anna Sewell (1820-1878), the author of Black Beauty, was born in a 17th-century house in Church Plain. The house is up for sale.

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Charles Dickens - David Copperfield - Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

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