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The National Trust’s Elizabethan House Museum
on South Quay is a must visit. Moored on the South
Quay is one of Britain’s most signi昀椀cant historic
vessels, the 92-year-old Lydia Eva, the last surviving
steam drifter of the herring 昀椀shing 昀氀eet based in
Great Yarmouth.
Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, in 2022
the Lydia Eva played a major role in the prequel 昀椀lm
to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She is open to
visitors at weekends between March and October.
Great Yarmouth’s Medieval town wall, believed
to be the second most complete medieval wall in
the country, is just more than a mile long with 11
surviving towers.
Work started on the wall in 1276 and took more than
a century to complete. It was more than 23 feet high
and 2,280 yards long, with 10 gates and 16 towers.
Explore Great Yarmouth’s historic Rows, the series of
narrow condensed streets in Great Yarmouth that ran
from east to west - the direction of the coastline and
towards the river at South Quay and housed families
in cramped dwellings. It is commonly stated that
there were 145 Rows with the 昀椀rst mention as early
as 1198.
A Roman fort at Burgh Castle is one of the best
preserved Roman monuments in Britain. Built in
the late 3rd century as part of the Roman network
of coastal defences, three stone walls survive,
almost to their original height.
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