List of Fairs in Norfolk.
| Acle, Midsummer-day | Horning, Monday after August 2 |
| Alburgh, June 21 | Ingham, Monday after Whit-Monday |
| Attleburgh, Th. bef. East. Th. bef. Whit Sun. and Aug. 15 | Kenninghall, July 18, Sept. 30 (Sheep Show) |
| Aylsham, March 23, last Tuesday in Sept. and Oct. 6 | Kiptonash (Sheep Show), Sept. 4 |
| Bacton, first Monday in August, November 30 | Litcham, Nov. 1 |
| Banham, Jan. 22 | Loddon, Easter Monday and Monday after Nov. 22 |
| Binham, July 25 | Ludham, Thurs. after Whitsun-week |
| Briston, May 26 | Lynn (Mart), Feb. 14, lasts 8 days—Oct. 16 |
| Broomhill, July 7 | Lyng, November 21 |
| Burnham, East. Mon. and Aug. 1 | Massingham, Tuesday before Easter, November 8 |
| Castleacre, April 18, July 25 | Mattishall, Tuesday before Holy Thursday |
| Cawston, Feb. 1, and last Wednesday in April and Aug.—Sheep Show | Methwold, April 25 |
| Cley, last Friday in July | New Buckenham, last Saturday in May, and November 22 |
| Coltishall, Whit-Monday | Northwalsham, Holy Thursday |
| Cressingham Magna, Aug. 12 | Northwold, Nov. 30 |
| Cromer, Whit-Monday | Norwich, Day before Good Friday |
| Dereham, Th. and Fr. before Old Midsummer, and Th. and Fr. before New Michaelmas | Do. (Bishop-Bridge) Easter Monday and Tuesday |
| Diss, November 8 | Do. (do.) Whit Monday and Tuesday |
| Downham, May 8, Nov. 13 | Oxburgh, March 25 |
| Elmham, April 5 | Pulham St. Mary, Third Thursday in May |
| St. Faith’s, October 17 | Reepham, June 29 |
| Feltwell, November 20 | Rudham, May 17, October 14 |
| Fincham, March 3 | Scole, Easter Tuesday |
| Forncett, Sept. 11 | Scottow, do. |
| Foulsham, first, Tuesday in May | Shouldham, Sept. 19, Oct. 10 |
| Frettenham, first Monday in April | Southrepps, July 25 |
| Fring, May 10, December 11 | Sprowston (Magdalen), Aug. 2 |
| Gaywood, June 11, at Gaywood, and Oct. 17, kept at Lynn Custom-house Quay | Stoke, December 6 |
| Gissing, July 25 | Stowbridge, Saturday after Whitsunday |
| Gressinghall, December 6 | Stratton, Oct. 12 |
| Harleston, July 5, Sept. 9, and Nov. 28, 1 month, for Scotch cattle | Swaffham, May 12, July 21, Nov. 3, (Sheep Shows) |
| Harling East, May 4, Sept. 16 (Sheep Show), Oct. 24 | Thetford, May 14, August 2, September 25 |
| Harpley, July 24 | Walsingham, Whit-Monday |
| Hempnall, Whit Monday, Dec. 11 | Watton, July 10, October 10, November 8 |
| Hempton, Whit-Tuesday, Nov. 22 | Weasenham, Jan. 25 |
| Heacham, August 3 | Worsted, May 12 |
| Hingham, March 7, Whit-Tuesday, October 2 | Wymondham, Feb. 2 and May 6, O. S. |
| Hockham, Easter Monday | Yarmouth, March 28 and 29. |
| Hockwold, July 25 | |
| Holt, April 25, November 25 |
CONCISE HISTORY OF NORWICH. [49]
Its latitude, according to Sir Henry Spelman, is 52 degrees, 45 minutes, North: longitude, 1 degree, 19 minutes, East of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich:—It is 108 miles from London by Newmarket, 114 by Bury St. Edmund’s, and 110 by Ipswich and Colchester.
It is rather more than a mile and a half in length, from King-street-gate to Magdalen-gate; and a mile and a quarter in breadth, from Bishop’s gate to St. Benedict’s gate.
It has thirty-four churches, besides the cathedral, chapels, and dissenting meeting-houses; and is encompassed by a ditch, and the remains of a flint-stone wall, begun in 1294 and finished in 1310, which was flanked with forty towers, in the ancient method of fortification, and had twelve gates for entrances on all sides.
THE CASTLE
Is supposed to have been built by King Canute, the Dane, in 1018; and as far the greater number of his subjects were Saxons, who, at this period, were the first architects, and most probably employed, it is considered as one of the most complete Saxon remains in England.
In confirmation of this opinion, all its ornaments are in the true Saxon style; and the bridge leading to it is unquestionably one of the noblest and most perfect Saxon arches now extant.
The inside, instead of an open yard, was filled up with floors of most magnificent and spacious apartments; traces of which may yet be seen by persons accustomed to examine buildings of this sort. On the ground floor they were vaulted over with stone, for a great part of the old vault still remains; also the great stone arches of the buttresses, and a stone vaulting where the present chapel is. It was used as a prison so early as the reign of Henry I. but not for that purpose solely:—the upper apartments of these towers, were state apartments, for the residence of great officers and their attendants.