Yarmouth Pier is a Victorian pleasure pier, located in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. It is the longest wooden pier in England[according to whom?], and frequently...
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Wightlink car ferry sails from Yarmouth to Lymington (Lymington Pier) in Hampshire. Southern Vectis operate bus services from Yarmouth bus station, a small building...
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and some new settlement. Wellington Pier opened in 1854 and Britannia Pier in 1858. Through the 20th century, Yarmouth boomed as a resort, with a promenade...
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Canary Wharf Pier Festival Pier Greenland Pier Greenwich Pier Hilton Docklands Nelson Dock Pier Kew Pier London Bridge City Pier London Eye Pier Masthouse...
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Britannia Pier is a pier located at the seaside town of Great Yarmouth in the English county of Norfolk. A new pier in Great Yarmouth was first proposed...
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grandfather had started the first minstrel show on the end of Great Yarmouth pier. As a schoolgirl, she enjoyed acting in the drama society of her local...
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The Yarmouth Stone, also known as the Yarmouth Runic Stone or the Fletcher Stone, is a slab of quartzite that first came to the attention of the public...
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737008°E / 52.599268; 1.737008 Wellington Pier is located in Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, England. The pier was opened on 31 October 1853 and the...
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Yarmouth Castle is an artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1547 to protect Yarmouth Harbour on the Isle of Wight from the threat of French attack. Just...
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Great Yarmouth, England. Popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the food is now described as rare. Bloaters are sometimes called a Yarmouth bloater...
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Gorleston-on-Sea (category Great Yarmouth)
is a seaside town in the borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. It lies to the south of Great Yarmouth, on the opposite side of the mouth of the...
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Main Line at Lymington Junction. At Lymington Pier, trains connect with Wightlink ferry services to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. The Lymington branch line is...
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the Gorleston Pier end of the harbour, looking back towards Great Yarmouth itself. It was one of two films Birt Acres shot in Yarmouth. The second, which...
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Wightlink (section Lymington-Yarmouth)
between Lymington and Yarmouth, and Portsmouth and Fishbourne and a fast passenger-only catamaran between Portsmouth Harbour and Ryde Pier. It is jointly owned...
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parliament. He took part in committees considering bills on repairing Great Yarmouth pier, relieving imprisoned debtors, improving tillage and increasing the...
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(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62)) Great Yarmouth Pier Act 1722 (repealed) 9 Geo. 1. c. 10 22 March 1723 An Act for clearing...
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Blofeld. Britannia Pier on the coast of Great Yarmouth has rides which include a ghost train. Also on the pier is the famous Britannia Pier Theatre. Banham...
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section was a private navigation which was not controlled by the Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commissioners, who had responsibility for the rest of the Broadland...
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Danish brig Friheden. On 24 November Economic was lost northward of Yarmouth Pier. Economic had been sailing from the Baltic with a cargo of wheat when...
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crews, was docked for repair of a propeller damaged in a collision with Yarmouth Pier. On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be...
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Great Yarmouth Corporation Tramways served the town of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England from 19 June 1902 until 14 December 1933. The tramway system...
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situated on Sconce Point west of Yarmouth. Its position overlooks the whole of the Needles Passage and approaches to Yarmouth, and is almost opposite Hurst...
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lighthouse and station is located at the end of the south pier of seaport on the south side of Great Yarmouth. The first lighthouse was established here in 1852...
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Park Flamingo Land Resort Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo Funland Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach GreenWood Gulliver's Theme Parks Kingdom Land Valley World...
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Pier 21 is a former ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly one million immigrants came to...
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the south and to Newport to east. In the nearby Yarmouth, the Vehicle Ferry departs from Yarmouth Pier and goes to Lymington on the mainland. The hamlet...
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Tim Hunkin. The pier was built in 1900 as a landing stage for steamships that brought tourists from London Clacton and Great Yarmouth until the 1930s...
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Swansea and Mumbles Railway (redirect from Mumbles Railway and Pier Act 1892)
company, the Mumbles Railway & Pier Company, was incorporated to extend the railway beyond Oystermouth to a new pier close to Mumbles Head. The first...
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Line from Brockenhurst and provides a connection with ferry services to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. It has one platform. The station is unstaffed but...
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west and Great Yarmouth in the east. Sea angling is popular and mixed catches including cod can be made from the town's beaches. The pier provides the opportunity...
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