• Landmarks
  
  
  • Nelson's Monument
    
    
  • Town Walls
    
    
• The Prison Visitor
  
  
  • Cells in the Hold
    
    
  • Sarah Martin
    
    

Great Yarmouth was once one of the most important ports on the east coast of England. Built on a sandbank where the river Bure and Wensum meet before flowing into the sea, the medieval town was very wealthy, one of Britain's busiest fishing ports until the 1960s and a popular seaside resort since the mid-nineteeth century.

Today it has a rich heritage and although still heavily dependent on the tourists, much of its employment is based servicing the North Sea gas and oil industry.