Wells-next-the-Sea

Wells-next-the-Sea is a north Norfolk port whose quay sits behind the marshes that separate it from the open sea, and its ea...

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Wells-next-the-Sea is a north Norfolk port whose quay sits behind the marshes that separate it from the open sea, and its early road maps show how travellers made their way across the county to reach it. The oldest is Ogilby's strip map of 1675, plate 52, following the road from Newmarket through Swaffham to Wells, with Bury St Edmunds on the same sheet. Senex mapped the same road in 1719, and Owen and Bowen's map of 1753 brings the town in by way of Fakenham and Walsingham.

Wells-next-the-Sea is a north Norfolk port whose quay sits behind the marshes that separate it from the open sea, and its early road maps show how travellers made their way across the county to reach it. The oldest is Ogilby's strip map of 1675, plate 52, following the road from Newmarket through Swaffham to Wells, with Bury St Edmunds on the same sheet. Senex mapped the same road in 1719, and Owen and Bowen's map of 1753 brings the town in by way of Fakenham and Walsingham.

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