: Observations upon the Town of Cromer Considered as a Watering Place and the Picturesque Scenery in Its Neighbourhood by Bartell Edmund - Cromer (England) Description and travel

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THE situation of the town of Cromer. The parish church a beautiful specimen of architecture, in the time of Henry the fourth. The beauty of its proportions injured by the necessary manner in which it has been repaired. Accident of a bay falling from the steeple. Anecdote of Robert Bacon. Free School. Inns. The Fishery the chief support of the lower class of inhabitants,--also, a great source of picturesque amusement. Boat upset. Mercantile trade. Dearness of Coals,--the reason of it. Cromer an eligible situation for retirement. A description of the bathing machines, cliffs, and beach. Sea-shore a constant amusement to the artist. Picturesque effects of the storm and the calm compared. Sea-fowls. Light-house. Overstrand. Cromer Hall.

WALK to Runton. Cromer seen to advantage in the return from Runton. The battery.

EXCURSION to Holt--upper road to be preferred. Description of the country between Cromer and Holt. Churches or villages, seen through a valley, a very common species of landscape. Fine distance a circumstance of great beauty. Heath ground terminated by distance. Particular effect given to a distance. The influence which a distant prospect, under particular circumstances, has upon the mind. Holt. Return from Holt by the lower road. Beeston Priory. Remark of Shenstone's upon ruinated structures. Felbrigg beacon.

FELBRIGG. Grounds described. Oak,--its uses in the picturesque,--improved by age and decay. Shenstone's ideas of trees in general, particularly the oak. Felbrigg house, pictures and library. Beckham old church,--the loneliness of its situation greatly to be admired. Such scenes calculated to excite reflection.

CHURCH at Thorp-Market described. Stained or painted glass in windows,--its effect. Gunton Hall, the seat of the Right Honourable Lord Suffield. Offices very fine. Parish Church in the park. North-Walsham. Hanworth, the seat of Robert Lee Doughty, Esq.

RIDE from Cromer to Mundesley. Trimmingham beacon. Mundesley. The beach at Mundesley. View from it particularly affected by the state of the weather. Effects of partial lights, called by Mons. du Piles--"accidents in painting."

THE Cottage at Northrepps,--its romantic situation. Casual observations on planting. Echo at Toll's hill.

BLICKLING, the seat of the Honourable Asheton Harbord. Description of the house, pictures, etc. The park. Mausoleum. Parish church. Aylsham. Road from Aylsham to Cromer. Woody lanes frequently very picturesque.

WOOLTERTON, the seat of the Right Honourable Lord Walpole. Its situation. Ruin in the park.

SHERRINGHAM, Upper. Description of the grounds belonging to Cooke Flower, Esq. Shepherd's cottage, rural situation of. Thatch considered as the most picturesque covering to a cottage. Connection of objects necessary to produce a pleasing effect. Weybourn. Sherringham, Lower. Good situation of the inn. The beach. Thompson's description of a sun-set at sea.

CROMER.

THE town of CROMER is situated on the north-east part of the county of Norfolk, upon the edge of the british ocean, from which it is defended by cliffs of considerable height.

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