Cromer

Twinned with Crest, France (www.crest.fr) and Nidda, Germany (www.nidda.de)

Cromer owes its existence to the sea - a town kept buoyant by the fishing and holiday industries. But the resort's beginnings lie under the waves that make up half its hinterland. There is no mention of Cromer in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book. Only the village of Shipden - long since swallowed up by the erosion that carves the ever-changing map of the North Norfolk coast.

Shipden, and Cromer which followed it, provided a handy port of call midway along the harbourless stretch between Blakeney and Yarmouth. Fishing and shipborne freight - coal in, corn out - kept the town busy from medieval to Victorian times.

Cromer's early piers and jetties helped with the loading and unloading - before later became the focus for its new lease of life as a holiday hot spot. Georgian gentlefolk started it with their search for health-giving locations such as bracing seasides.

But it was the Victorians and the coming of the railways that really made Cromer popular, still there for modern trippers to enjoy. The pier, the big hotels like the Hotel De Paris which towers over its landward end.

A view of the Crab fishermen's tractors with the Pier in the background

Various views of the Seafront @ Cromer

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