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Key facts
- Area
- 3.89 sq mi (10.1 km )
- Population
- 28,985 (Built-up area, 2021) , 99,745 (Borough, 2021)
- Os grid reference
- TG5207
- District
- Great Yarmouth
- Shire county
- Norfolk
- Region
- East
- Country
- England
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Areas of the town
- List Bradwell Caister-on-Sea (Village) Gorleston-on-Sea (Town) Hopton-on-Sea (Village) Runham Southtown
- Post town
- GREAT YARMOUTH
- Postcode district
- NR30
- Dialling code
- 01493
- Police
- Norfolk
- Fire
- Norfolk
- Ambulance
- East of England
- Uk parliament
- Great Yarmouth
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- seaside resort
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Great Yarmouth
- Population
- 28979
- Area
- 10.075
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Capital of
- Great Yarmouth
- Image
- Great Yarmouth collage2.png
- Dialing code
- 01493
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- twinned administrative body
- Rambouillet
- Commons category
- Great Yarmouth
- topic's main category
- Category:Great Yarmouth
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Great Yarmouth
- OS grid reference
- TG5207
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Great Yarmouth
- P8168
- Rita Bottiglieri
- different from
- Great Yarmouth
- P12749
- Alexander Grothendieck
- native label
- Great Yarmouth
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Encyclopedic overview
Great Yarmouth (/ˈjɑːrməθ/ YAR-məth), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located 20 miles (32 km) east of Norwich. Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ended. North Sea oil from the 1960s supplied an oil rig industry that services offshore natural gas rigs; more recently, offshore wind power and other renewable energy industries have ensued. In 2021 the built up area had a population of 28,985.
Yarmouth has been a resort since 1760 and a gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea. Holidaymaking rose when a railway opened in 1844, bringing easier, cheaper access and some new settlements. Wellington Pier opened in 1854, and Britannia Pier in 1858. Through the 20th century, Yarmouth boomed as a resort, with a promenade, pubs, trams, fish-and-chip shops, theatres, the Pleasure Beach, the Sea Life Centre, the Hippodrome Circus, the Time and Tide Museum and a Victorian seaside Winter Garden in cast iron and glass.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Great Yarmouth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.