{"id":102884,"date":"2019-01-11T23:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-kings-lynn-norfolk-its-beautiful-all-cobbles-alleys-and-warehouses\/"},"modified":"2019-01-12T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:06:15","slug":"lets-move-to-kings-lynn-norfolk-its-beautiful-all-cobbles-alleys-and-warehouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-kings-lynn-norfolk-its-beautiful-all-cobbles-alleys-and-warehouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to King\u2019s Lynn, Norfolk: it\u2019s beautiful \u2013 all cobbles, alleys and warehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf it wasn\u2019t in the remoter end of the Fens, it would be overrun with touristsWhat\u2019s going for it? Amazing, the effect of geography. Were King\u2019s Lynn anywhere else in the country but squelched into the remoter end of the Fens, it would be overrun with tourists. They\u2019d be there getting selfies next to some 18th-century townhouses or cutie-pie half-timbered cottages they\u2019d seen in the latest Sunday night costume drama. Bistros and artisan coffee houses would be flush. Various branches of Edinburgh Woollen Mills would have opened. But it is not. It is squelched into the remoter end of the Fens. The wealth of the north Norfolk coast is tantalisingly near, but not quite near enough. That relative remoteness today (I mean, it\u2019s only just over an hour to Cambridge, so it\u2019s hardly Siberia, is it?) has bred an independent spirit: there\u2019s some great local culture behind those pedimented porticoes, and a fair bit of money has been spent on sprucing up the place. Geography favoured King\u2019s Lynn hundreds of years ago, before trade shifted to the Atlantic. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so beautiful today, all cobbles, alleys and warehouses. King\u2019s Lynn was once the biggest port in the country, and its merchants flashed their cash on those 18th-century townhouses. Maybe fortune will smile on it again some day.The case against The poor place has been scandalously knocked about in decades past, to make room for car parks and dual carriageways, meaning that today it\u2019s a slightly surreal mishmash of 18th-century alleys and retail parks. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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