Wells-next-the-sea
Wells-next-the-Sea is a village and port on the North Norfolk shore of England. The civil parish has an area of 16.31 km2 (6.30 sq mi) and in 2001 had a population of 2,451, decreasing to 2,165 at the 2011 Census. Wells is 15 miles (24 kilometres) to the eastern of the hotel of Hunstanton, 20 miles (32 km) to the west of Cromer, and 10 miles (16 km) north of Fakenham. The city of Norwich lies 32 miles (51 km) to the south-east. Neighboring towns include Blakeney, Burnham Market, Burnham Thorpe, Holkham and also Walsingham. The North Sea is currently a mile from the community; the main channel which when wandered via marshes, foraged by lamb for centuries, was constrained by earthworks to the west in 1859 when Holkham Estate redeemed some 800 hectares of saltmarsh north-west of Wells with the structure of a mile-long bank. This improvement was claimed to have actually lowered the tidal scour though the West Fleet which offered a lot of the water entered the network to its north.Because the community has no river going through it, it depends on the tides to comb the harbour. The problem of siltation had preoccupied the merchants of the community for hundreds of years and occupied the interests of different designers, leading ultimately to conflicts which concerned court in the 18th century. Sir John Coode, who had been knighted for his deal with the completion of Portland harbour was recruited to fix its siltation problems in the 1880s. No attempted service showed irreversible. The development of faster aquatic traffic whose wake washes at the banks of the marshes has widened the channel as well as lowered tidal circulation even more. The community has actually been a port since before the fourteenth century when it supplied grain to London and also ultimately to the miners of the north eastern in return for which Wells was provided with coal. Until the nineteenth century, it was much easier to lug bulk freights by sea than overland. Wells was likewise a fishing port: in 1337 it is recorded as having had thirteen angling boats; next door Holkham had nine. Its seafarers brought initially herring and after that cod from Iceland in quantity between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The guideline of the harbour in order to preserve its usage was by Act of Parliament in 1663; and also in 1769 Harbour Commissioners were assigned with powers over vessels getting in as well as leaving (as they still have today). The Quay was substantially restored in 1845 as part of efforts to enhance the community. At the same time, Improvement Commissioners were appointed with the job of making the community wide and also appealing to locals and also the expanding traveler profession. As a tiny port, it built ships up until the late 19th century; it never transferred to constructing motor vessels or to steel hulls. The coming of the railway in 1857 reduced the harbour trade yet it revitalized briefly after the Second World War for the import of fertilizer as well as pet feed. In 1982 there were 258 ship activities into the harbour.