Observations upon the town of Cromer : $b considered as a watering place, and the picturesque scenery in its neighbourhoodBartell, Edmund
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Observations upon the town of Cromer : $b considered as a watering place, and the picturesque scenery in its neighbourhood
Bartell, Edmund
Cromer (England) -- Description and travel
North-Walsham is situated about three miles from Gunton, it is a dull,
unpleasant town with a market on Thursdays, a turnpike road has lately
been established from this town to Norwich, from which it is distant
fourteen miles.
Two miles from Gunton is Hanworth, the seat of Robert Lee Doughty, Esq.
an excellent modern house, situated in a small but very pleasant park,
well wooded and laid out with taste; a farm house and the parish church
which stands on an eminence, both in the park, are very pretty objects as
seen from the road.
_Section the Sixth_.
THE ride from Cromer to Mundesley will present the traveller with some
pleasing scenes; the road runs almost entirely along the coast, taking in
its course the villages of Overstrand, Syderstrand and Trimmingham. On a
hill, about a mile through the latter village, stand the ruins of an old
beacon, which commands a noble prospect both of the sea and land; in very
clear weather Yarmouth is discoverable, and the cathedral spire at
Norwich very plainly to be seen. Few, who pay a visit to Cromer, omit
seeing this view, which is, perhaps, the most extensive in the county of
Norfolk.
About two miles further on is Mundesley, a straggling village, little
worthy of notice. There is one bathing machine, and some few, though the
number is very small, frequent Mundesley in the bathing season. The
accommodations are very confined, four or five houses at the utmost
appear at all calculated for the purposes of lodgings, and those are
situated close to the side of a dusty road.
The beach seems to be equally as good for bathing as at Cromer, and the
walking much the same, the tide at low water leaving a fine firm land.
The prospect upon the beach to the southward differs in appearance from
Cromer, by the land at Happisburgh jutting into the sea, forming a
promontory, which with the church and the two light-houses has a good
effect.
Every one who has made a study of nature is well aware of the different
appearance of the same spot as it is affected by the times of the day and
the changes of the weather; so much so, indeed, that it not unfrequently
happens that the whole beauty of a view depends upon such accidental
causes. This was the case with the promontory at my first seeing it; the
clouds at its back were dark and heavy, opposed by a bright sun-shine
from the west, giving it a strong opposition of light and shadow, which
being harmonized by the fine purple tint with which it was overspread,
rendered it a very pleasing object.
In a few moments, the sun declining behind a cloud, the beauty of the
prospect vanished, and a heavy mass of apparently shapeless earth was
left to the view; and even of that the outline was almost obliterated by
the cloud descending over it in a hasty shower.
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