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©Raymond E Hawkins
©Raymond E Hawkins
What a storm 4.30pm October 2002
©Raymond E Hawkins
Taken during a great storm in October 2002
©Raymond E Hawkins
View of Sheringham Clock Tower and High street.
©Stephen D Bennett
Taken on the Claremont Fan Court School Geography fieldtrip March 2006. Evidence of street furniture and coastal management: Groynes, sea wall and rock armour.
©Nichola Haacke
©Nigel Chadwick
©James Haynes
The Sheringham mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) is the village of Upper Sheringham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/500347 which has been a farming community for 2000 years whereas lower Sheringham was little more than a collection of fisherman’s hovels for hundreds of years. In the early 1700s each village had a population of about 100, but the fishing industry began to thrive and by 1850 there were about 100 boats working from the beach and the population had risen to 800, to double that of the farming village. In 1901 Lower Sheringham was granted status as a self governing urban district, and the town of Sheringham, with a then population of 2000, was born. With the arrival of the railways > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1091376 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1091380 in 1887 a direct link was provided with London, via Cambridge - the journey took about four hours - crabs and lobsters caught in the morning could be in London later that same day. Middle class Londoners discovered the fishing town and the fishermen rented out their cottages to visitors, earning more money in the summer than they could from the sea in a whole year. During the 1890s the first sewers were laid, gas lamps were installed, and the parish church was built.
©Evelyn Simak
The bridge carries the Promenade over the access down onto the beach. The Sheringham mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) is the village of Upper Sheringham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/500347 which has been a farming community for 2000 years whereas lower Sheringham was little more than a collection of fisherman’s hovels for hundreds of years. In the early 1700s each village had a population of about 100, but the fishing industry began to thrive and by 1850 there were about 100 boats working from the beach and the population had risen to 800, to double that of the farming village. In 1901 Lower Sheringham was granted status as a self governing urban district, and the town of Sheringham, with a then population of 2000, was born. With the arrival of the railways > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1091376 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1091380 in 1887 a direct link was provided with London, via Cambridge - the journey took about four hours - crabs and lobsters caught in the morning could be in London later that same day. Middle class Londoners discovered the fishing town and the fishermen rented out their cottages to visitors, earning more money in the summer than they could from the sea in a whole year. During the 1890s the first sewers were laid, gas lamps were installed, and the parish church was built.
©Evelyn Simak
By the Esplanade, beside the access onto the promenade and beach.
©Evelyn Simak
The bridge carries the Promenade over the access to the beach from The Esplanade. The rooms at both sides house public toilets. The bridge carries the Esplanade over the access down onto the beach. The Sheringham mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) is the village of Upper Sheringham > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/500347 which has been a farming community for 2000 years whereas lower Sheringham was little more than a collection of fisherman’s hovels for hundreds of years. In the early 1700s each village had a population of about 100, but the fishing industry began to thrive and by 1850 there were about 100 boats working from the beach and the population had risen to 800, to double that of the farming village. In 1901 Lower Sheringham was granted status as a self governing urban district, and the town of Sheringham, with a then population of 2000, was born. With the arrival of the railways > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1091376 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1091380 in 1887 a direct link was provided with London, via Cambridge - the journey took about four hours - crabs and lobsters caught in the morning could be in London later that same day. Middle class Londoners discovered the fishing town and the fishermen rented out their cottages to visitors, earning more money in the summer than they could from the sea in a whole year. During the 1890s the first sewers were laid, gas lamps were installed, and the parish church was built.
©Evelyn Simak
©James Haynes
©Evelyn Simak
This magnificent archway (which also houses less magnificent toilets) is the entrance to the cliff top walk.
©Mike Smith

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