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Norwich

Noruic

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located above River Wensum; sacked by Danes in 1004; center of wool trade in Middle Ages; suffered from Black Death in 1348; was one of country's largest cities in 17th-19th cen.; site of large shoe industry; noted for 11th-cen. Norwich Cathedral, founded in 1096 by the first bishop of Norwich. There is also a Norman castle here.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986); Blue Guide: England (1980); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Domesday Book (1985); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998);

Born

John Sell Cotman (English, 1782-1842)

Charles John Watson (English, 1846-1927)

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