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Title: Vanishing England
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: England -- Description and travel England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and its associations with many great events in his-tory. Henry III, recognizing the important strategicalposition of the town in 1260, granted a charter to thetownsfolk empowering them to fortify the place with awall and a moat, but more than a century elapsed beforethe fortifications were completed. This was partly owingto the Black Death, which left few men in Yarmouth tocarry on the work. The walls were built of cut flint andCaen stone, and extended from the north-east tower inSt. Nicholas Churchyard, called King Henrys Tower, toBlackfriars Tower at the south end, and from the sameKing Henrys Tower to the north-west tower on the bankof the Bure. Only a few years ago a large portion of this,north of Ramp Row, now called Rampart Road, wastaken down, much to the regret of many. And here Imay mention a grand movement which might be withadvantage imitated in every historic town. A smallprivate company has been formed called the GreatYarmouth Historical Buildings, Limited. Its object is
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42 VANISHING ENGLAND to acquire and preserve the relics of ancient Yarmouth.The founders deserve the highest praise for their publicspirit and patriotism. How many cherished objects inVanishing England might have been preserved if eachtown or county possessed such a valuable association !This Yarmouth society owns the remains of the cloistersof Grey Friars and other remains of ancient buildings.It is only to be regretted that it was not formed earlier.There were nine gates in the walls of the town, but noneof them are left, and of the sixteen towers which pro-tected the walls only a very few remain. These walls guard much that is important. The eccle-siastical buildings are very fine, including the largestparish church in England, founded by the same Herbertde Losinga whose good work we saw at Kings Lynn.The church of St. Nicholas has had many vicissitudes,and is now one of the finest in the country. It was inmedieval times the church of a Benedictine Priory ; a cellof the monastery a

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