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The Borough of Great Yarmouth is a local government district with borough status in Norfolk, England. It is named after its main town, Great Yarmouth , and also contains the town of Gorleston-on-Sea [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and a number of villages and rural areas, including part of The Broads .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. Seaside town in Norfolk, England For other uses, see Great Yarmouth (disambiguation). Human settlement in England Great Yarmouth Clockwise from top left: Great Yarmouth Town Hall, Britannia Monument, Old Vicarage with the tower of the minster church in background, Church Plain, Empire ...
It is the meeting place of Great Yarmouth Borough Council and is a Grade II* listed building. The town hall was designed by John Bond Pearce in the Queen Anne Revival style, with terracotta facings and a 110-foot-tall (34-metre) clock tower with a lantern above. It was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), on 31 May 1882 ...
A lock-up for petty criminals was erected at the back of the town hall in 1842. [5] In the 1870s civic leaders decided to demolish the old town hall and commission a new town hall on the same site: the foundation stone for the new building was laid by the mayor, Councillor Charles Cory Aldred, on 20 April 1880. [6]
The civil parish has an area of 4.5 mi (7.2 km) and in the 2001 census had a population of 4,021 in 1,680 households, the population reducing to 3,974 at the 2011 Census. [2] Great Ormesby railway station was once located in Ormesby St Margaret on the line between Great Yarmouth and Melton Constable. It was closed in 1959. [3]
A long-standing independent toy shop is closing down, with its owner blaming the "empty" high street. Family-run Kerrison Toys has traded in King Street in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, for 40 years.
The civil parish has an area of 5.1 km 2 (2.0 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 401 in 172 households, the population reducing to 391 in the 2011 Census. [2] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Great Yarmouth. [3]
Hemsby is a village, seaside resort and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England.It is situated some 8 mi (13 km) north of the town of Great Yarmouth. [1] In the 2001 census Hemsby had a population of 2,973 in 1,221 households; by the 2011 census it had increased to 3,275. [2]