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    Norfolk used to be joined to the Continent. Yes, really! It was only the final thawing of the last Ice Age around 5000BC that separated us, but during the past few millennia there has been constant traffic between our shores and those of Europe. Some have been invaders, pillagers or colonialists, but our ties with the Low Countries have been largely friendly, not least because of important trading links.

    So, you see, there's nothing but the sea between us and Europe.



    Through to the 18th century Norwich was the second city of England. It was a busy cultural capital, heavily settled by those who had come over the North Sea, including the Dutch and Huguenots escaping religious persecution. Yes, the North Sea has always been a carrier, not a barrier.

    They helped create many of Norfolk’s trades, its arts, its printing achievements and its painting traditions. At the hub of Norfolk’s great and farm-filled wheel, Norwich sponsored painting, writing, music and culture in general.



    The Norfolk coast is as close to the Netherlands, just 113 miles, as it is to London and in medieval times it only took a day to sail to Amsterdam, but four days to travel to London. At that time Norfolk was isolated by muddy marshland and dense forest so we have always looked to the Continent.

    In fact, even now with daily KLM flights from Norwich International Airport to Schiphol it’s still quicker to get to Amsterdam than London!

    The relationship began with fish but flourished in the thirteenth century when wool was exported through the Broads to the weavers of Flanders. At that time Norfolk was at the forefront of mercantile trade in Britain – the county had one of the highest populations in the country, and Norwich was a wealthy city, second only to London.



    Although the Dutch and Walloon ‘Strangers’ invited to Norwich in 1565 by Queen Elizabeth I are the best-known of the Low Countries immigrants, the first Flemings were invited to Norfolk in 1338.

    In the fifteenth century, protectionist tariffs, taxation and wars promoted domestic cloth-making – assisted in the 1560s by refugee Flemish weavers fleeing the Inquisition in the Spanish Netherlands, who brought with them their now-famous Canaries, remembered today in the nickname of Norwich City Football Club.

    Among those from Flanders were descendants of US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.



    By the end of the 16th century there were over 4000 Protestant Dutch refugees in Norwich, accounting for almost a third of the population.

    The Canaries aren’t the only influences we retain: Dutch architecture, such as gable ends, can be found across Norfolk, but particularly in Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn.

    At the same time as the refugees came, Dutch engineer Joas Johnson helped erect stone and timber piers at the river Yare at Great Yarmouth which finally secured the harbour’s mouth. There had been more than a dozen attempts to make a final ‘cut’.

    His work lasted until 1962 when ‘The Old Dutch Pier’ was replaced by the current concrete structure, which resulted in Gorleston losing part of its beach (don’t worry, it’s back now and bigger than ever).



    In the 1650s Dutch engineer Sir Cornelius Vermuyden directed major projects to drain the Fens, the first time this had been attempted since Roman occupation.

    Great sluices were constructed to control the flow of water, connecting villages that were formerly little islands and docks amid the marshes and seawaters of a great archipelago.

    Even before Vermuyden’s work, Dutch drainage experts were working in Norfolk – there is a 1525 Dutch inscription for a ‘Peter Peterson, dyke reeve’ at Haddiscoe church in south Norfolk.



    Norfolk’s prosperous links with the Continent waned with the coming of the Industrial Revolution, but at least that means we still retain so many of our old buildings – they were never demolished for ‘progress’.

    And what many people don’t realise is that the Industrial Revolution was a product of the Agricultural Revolution that Norfolk helped create in the work of Thomas Coke, the first Earl of Leicester, at Holkham, who brought land reform, and Charles ‘Turnip’ Townshend, who brought four-crop rotation to Britain. And where did he copy it from? Waasland, in Flanders… continental Europe.

    Two-horse ploughing from Holland replaced the heavy English eight-ox plough; turnips and Friesian cows came too – the latter particularly enjoying being fattened on Norfolk’s marshes.

    https://www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/inspi...k_norwich.aspx





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    The windmills in the wetlands and lowland area of Norfolk, East Anglia. The North Sea is adjacent to the east.

    East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England. The area included has varied but the legally defined NUTS 2 statistical unit comprises the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, including the City of Peterborough unitary authority area. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a tribe whose name originated in Anglia, northern Germany.









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    Tulip fields grown by farmers in the lowlands area of Norfolk, East Anglia, close to the North Sea. Although the English red rose is our national flower, tulips are very popular and are sold a lot here each year as there's a high demand for them amongst the English.

























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    Holland-on-Sea, (formerly 'Little Holland',) east Essex, south-east England.




    The village of Great Holland

    Holland-on-Sea is a seaside town in east Essex. Located south of the little village of Great Holland and directly north of Clacton-on-Sea, it has bus links to Walton-on-the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea. It is a short coastal walk down the coastline to Clacton.

    There is a public library, four churches, St Bartholomew’s Church (Church of England), All Souls Catholic Church, Holland Methodist and a Baptist church. The village has several independent shops, a village hall, a primary school, one main hotel (The Kings Cliff Hotel), plus a number of guest houses and pubs. It has several beaches with facilities for bathing and boating. There are two Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Holland Haven Marshes, part of which is Holland Haven Country Park, and Holland-on-Sea Cliff.

    Holland-on-Sea was known as Little Holland, a small village until the early 20th century.

    During the Second World War Holland-on-Sea was fortified against German attack. There is a Martello tower in nearby Clacton, which was also used during the Second World War. There is a Second World War pill box in Holland Haven Country Park. After the Second World War Holland-on-Sea went back to being a holiday town.

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    Just a quick high-speed train ride underneath the sea, a ferry ride, or a short plane ride away from each other.

    We share a similar Germanic grammar base to our languages, we're both Germanic cultured people, we have similar climates, we like similar foods (fish 'n' chips are a popular dish in both countries,) like similar music bands, have a similar sense of humour, we have a long and shared history together of the Dutch and English naval forces exploring other countries around the globe, and both nations empires have ruled over much of the world in the past. Both countries have inspirational writers who've produced very fine works of great literature and thought-provoking poetry.

    The Dutch people have one of the highest English language proficiency rates in the world outside of the English speaking nations. A high percentage of Dutch people can fluently read, write, understand, and speak fluent English to a high standard.

    In the south-east of our island, we're geographically closer to the Netherlands than the distance from south-east England to Scotland.



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    The word dam can be traced back to Middle English, and before that, from Middle Dutch, as seen in the names of many old cities.

    The first known appearance of dam occurs in 1165.

    However, there is one village, Obdam, that is already mentioned in 1120.

    The word should be understood as "dike from dug out earth". The names of more than 40 places (with minor changes) from the Middle Dutch era (1150–1500 CE) such as Amsterdam (founded as 'Amstelredam' in the late 12th century) and Rotterdam, also bear testimony to the use of the word in Middle Dutch at that time.

    Here's some placenames in the British Isles with 'Dam' in the name.

    Damask Green, Hertfordshire
    Damems, Bradford
    Damerham, Hampshire
    Damery, South Gloucestershire
    Damgate, Norfolk
    Damgate, Norfolk
    Dam Green, Norfolk
    Dam Head, Calderdale
    Damhead, Aberdeenshire
    Damhead Holdings, Midlothian
    Dam Mill, Staffordshire
    Damsay, Orkney Islands
    Damside, Scottish Borders
    Dam Side, Lancashire

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ations:_Da-Dam


    A sideview of the Lake Vyrnwy dam, in Wales, finished in 1888

    Placename origins of Britain and Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_...in_and_Ireland
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    Norfolk, East Anglia

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    The building below in Norfolk is the 'Helter Skelter House'/The Dutch Tutch



    The Dutch Tutch has to be one of the most unusual buildings in England. Not only did it originate from an unusual place, but its extraordinary design was the very essence of fun - a helter-skelter.

    The Norfolk Broads are the largest stretch of wetlands in the UK. From the ninth Century, peat cut from the Norfolk marshes was used as a popular source of fuel. They were created naturally when the sea level rose and flooded the area in the 14th Century.

    Dutch experts were invited to carry out drainage work after the floods. They left their mark on the area with their own style of architecture, seen mainly in the design of barns and roofing.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/herita...rticle_1.shtml









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