King's Lynn Through Time

by Paul Richards

As important in the Middle Ages as Liverpool was to become in the Industrial Revolution, Lynn (as in local parlance) was a major English port and market town for centuries, with access to ten counties through the Great Ouse and its tributaries. Aptly described as 'The Warehouse on the Wash', it maintained its position until the railways robbed the port of much of its river and coastal traffic in the 1840s and 1850s. Though the railways and docks together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445608375
• ISBN13: 9781445608372
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"