Melville and Co.'s Directory and Gazetteer of Norwich, Yarmouth, Dereham, Swaffham, Wymondham, Fakenham, Thetford, Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss, Reepham, Foulsham, Hingham, &c.; Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, Woodbridge, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Eye, Stowmarket, Needham Market, &c. [1856]

Transcribed from the 1856 Melville and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly allowing their copy to be used for this transcription.
NORWICH, YARMOUTH, DEREHAM, SWAFFHAM, Wymondham, Fakenham, Thetford, ATTLEBOROUGH, AYLSHAM, DISS, REEPHAM, FOULSHAM, HINGHAM, &C.; IPSWICH, BURY ST. EDMUND’S, WOODBRIDGE, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, HALESWORTH, EYE, STOWMARKET, NEEDHAM MARKET, &C.;
CONTAINING
A Descriptive Account of each Place, FOLLOWED BY A DIRECTORY.
Price to Non-subscribers , 10 s. 6 d.
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Norwich , August , 1856.
Norwich is a city and county of itself, and the largest on the eastern side of England. It is distant 108 miles N.E. by N. from London; 43 miles N. from Ipswich; 42 miles E. by S. from Lynn Regis; 19 miles W. from Yarmouth; and 72 miles N.E. from Cambridge. Its population, according to the census of 1851, was 68,195 inhabitants, and it has 36 parishes.