Note: A Maritime Snapshot of a Rural Port in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk

Abstract

A study of the maritime elements ‘beyond the dock wall’ in the rural port of Wells-next-the-Sea, covering location and layout, population, leading citizens, occupational structure and investment in shipping. Early 19^th century prosperity declined in the face of technological and trading changes, resulting in the loss of local ship-building and ship owning.

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Filed under: North Sea | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Miscellaneous