Gorleston

Gorleston- on-Sea, short Gorleston, Great Yarmouth is next to the easternmost city in the county of Norfolk in the UK and a seaside resort on the North Sea.

The city is located, separated from running in a north-south direction of the river Yare, south and west of Great Yarmouth and belongs since 1974 to the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Her story is older than that of the larger neighboring town m north. In the Domesday Book the town is mentioned as a fief of Count Guert, with salt pans for salt extraction from the sea. Two country houses there were in the Middle Ages, Gorleston Manor and Bacon's Manor. 1511, the town was united with the village of South Town. Administratively Southtown since 1681 is one of Great Yarmouth, church continue to Gorleston- on-Sea. The Act of 1832 Gorleston -on-Sea was either politically incorporated into the borough of Great Yarmouth, although until 1891 it belonged to Suffolk. In the 19th and 20th centuries it was an important center of the herring fishery. Today, the inhabitants live mainly by the oil industry in the North Sea and tourism. In the times of Edward VII, it was an elegant, well- popular seaside resort, the atmosphere of which is still being felt today. It had until May 1970 a total of three stations that were 1942 ( North Station ) and in 1970 with the object of the route closed. There is a large library, whose predecessor was founded in 1904 by Andrew Carnegie, and a golf club in the south of the village. The " James Paget Hospital" is a major health center for the region. Two lighthouses secure the waterway.

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