A Guide to Cromer and Its Neighbourhood

Transcribed from the 1841 Leak edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
BY A VISITOR;
“Music is in thy billows, Grandeur doth walk thy beach, sit on thy cliffs, Wave in thy woods, and Nature’s smile or frown, As cast o’er thee, is beautiful.”
PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY LEAK, CROMER; JERROLD, AND STEVENSON, MATCHATT, & STEVENSON, NORWICH; SHALDERS, HOLT; BLYTH, NORTH-WALSHAM; CLEMENTS, AYLSHAM; AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. LONDON.
1841.
LONDON: PRINTED BY JOSEPH RICKERBY SHERBOURN LANE.
A Guide to Cromer and its immediate neighbourhood having been long desired, the following is presented to the Public. The Author pretends to no originality, nor offers the present as perfect in its kind. It was undertaken simply because a deficiency was expressed, and a few hours of recreation gave the opportunity of attempting to supply it. All criticism therefore, it is hoped, will be spared as to the execution of the design, and that the intention only will be regarded. Sincere thanks are returned to those individuals whose information has proved of such material assistance towards the completion of the work, with a full acknowledgment, that, if any worth be attached to it, that worth is due to them.
Cromer, August 3, 1841.
There are few places in this kingdom which combine to a greater degree the advantages of a salubrious and invigorating air, a fine and open sea, or more pleasing scenery than Cromer. The lover of nature, the student, or the invalid may frequent its shores with equal benefit, and with equal gratification. That it is not more known, or become a place of more general resort, is the result rather of circumstances, than of any deficiency in itself. True, indeed, it has not the metropolitan luxuries of Brighton, or the elegances of some of our more southern favourites to recommend it, neither does it offer any resources of gaiety for the amusement of its visitors; but nevertheless, it will never want admirers, so long as an unvitiated taste, a desire of scientific knowledge, or a wish for the renovation of health shall exist.