North Walsham & Dilham Canal - North Walsham & Dilham Canal The North Walsham & Dilham Canal is the only canal in the English county of Norfolk. It is 7.3 miles long and runs from Smallburgh Junction with the River Ant to Swafield Bridge. Smallburgh junction with River Ant - 0.0 miles North Walsham canal junction - 0.4 miles Tonnage Bridge, Dilham - 0.9 miles East Ruston branch junction - 1.3 miles Honing Lock - 2.1 miles Honing Common Bridge, junction with Honing Staithe Cut - 2.6 miles Lock No.2, Briggate Mill - 3.3 miles Meeting Hill Branch junction - 4.1 miles Lock No. 3, Ebridge Mill - 5.0 miles Spa Common bridge - 5.9 miles Lock No. 4, Bacton Wood - 6.0 miles Austin Bridge - 6.5 miles Bridge at Swafield.
North Walsham - North Walsham North Walsham is a market town in Norfolk, England, south of Cromer and north of Wroxham. It was an Anglo-Saxon settlement. Both North Walsham and the neighbouring Worstead became very prosperous from the 12th century through the arrival of weavers from Flanders. "Walsham" was a light-weight cloth for summer, and "Worsted" a heavier cloth. The 14th century "wool churches" are a testament to the prosperity of the local mill owners. North Walsham was involved in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. The peasants' leaders were defeated at the Battle of North Walsham. Horatio Nelson and his brother William were educated at Paston School in North Walsham. The town is on the North Walsham & Dilham Canal, still privately owned by the North Walsham Canal Company..
Dilham - grown commercially here. It is the limit of Broads navigation for larger boats, but small boats, and especially non-powered boats, can travel on the North Walsham & Dilham Canal until Honing..
Aylsham - is a historic market town on the River Bure in North Norfolk, England. The river rises near Aylsham and continues to Great Yarmouth and the North Sea, although it was only navigable after 1779, allowing corn, coal and timber to be brought up river. Aylsham is thought to have been founded by an Anglo Saxon thane called Aegel around 500 AD. The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Elesham and Ailesham, said to be derived from Aegel's Ham, with a population of about 1,000. Until the 15th century, the linen and worsted industry was important here, as well as in North Walsham and Worstead, and 'Aylsham Web' or 'cloth of Aylsham' was supplied to the royal palaces of Edward II and III. John of Gaunt was Lord.
The Broads National Park - The broads range in size from small pools to the vast expanses of Hickling Broad, Barton Broad and Breydon Water. They are unevenly distributed; there are far more broads in the northern half of Broadland, and out of 50 or so broads, only 13 are open to navigation. A further three -- Martham Broad, Sutton Broad and Womack Water -- have navigable channels. Hoveton Little Broad and Horsey Mere are not available for boating in autumn and winter. These 18 broads provide approximately 400 hectares (990 acres) of water for navigation. In the lists below, names of broads are bolded to help distinguish them from towns and villages. The River Bure rises near Aylsham in Norfolk and joins the sea at Gorleston, Great Yarmouth. Coltishall Belaugh Belaugh Broad Bridge Broad Wroxham.
Waterways in the United Kingdom - Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, Gloucestershire Grand Union Canal Grand Western Canal Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Horncastle Canal, Lincolnshire Huddersfield Broad Canal Huddersfield Narrow Canal Ipswich & Stowmarket Navigation, Suffolk Kennet & Avon Canal joined to the River Avon, Bristol Lancaster Canal Lee Navigation, London Leeds and Liverpool Canal Leominster Canal Leven Canal Liskeard & Looe Union Canal Louth Navigation Macclesfield Canal Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal Manchester Ship Canal Market Weighton Canal Melton Mowbray Navigation Middle Level Navigations Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal North Walsham & Dilham Canal, Norfolk North Wilts Canal Oakham Canal Oxford Canal, Oxfordshire Peak Forest Canal Pocklington Canal Portsmouth & Arundel Canal Regent's Canal, London Ribble Link, Lancaster Canal with Leeds & Liverpool Canal Ripon Canal Rochdale Canal Rolle Canal Rother Link Salisbury & Southampton Canal Sankey Canal Selby Canal.
River Ant - St. Benet's Abbey. A special type of Norfolk wherry was used on the Ant, measuring 50' x 12' max. The Ant Broads & Marshes NNR is a National Nature Reserve. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal is the canalisation of the Ant and joins it at Smallburgh junction..
Richard Porson - born on Christmas Day 1759 at East Ruston, near North Walsham, in Norfolk, the eldest son of Huggin Person, parish clerk. His mother was the daughter of a shoemaker named Palmer, of the neighbouring village of Bacton. He was sent first to the village school at Bacton, kept by John Woodrow, and afterwards to that of Happisburgh kept by Mr Summers. Here his extraordinary powers of memory and aptitude for arithmetic were soon discovered; his skill in penmanship, which attended him through life, was due to the care of Summers, who became early impressed with his abilities, and long afterwards stated that during fifty years of scholastic life he had never come across boys so clever as Porson and his two brothers. He was well grounded in Latin by Summers, remaining.
Norfolk, England - with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and with Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast, including The Wash. The Angles, for whom East Anglia and England itself are named, settled in this area in the 5th century and later became the "north folk" and the "south folk," hence, "Norfolk" and Suffolk." The regional capital of Norfolk is the City of Norwich. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Other towns and villages 2 Places of interest 3 Other related articles Other towns and villages Acle, Attleborough, Aylsham Bacton, Banham, Beeston,Belton, Blakeney, Bradenham, Brancaster, Bressingham, Briston, Brooke, Brumstead (Brunstead), Brundall, Burgh Castle, Burnham Market, Buxton Lamas Caister, Castle Acre, Castor, Chedgrave, Clenchwarton, Cley next the Sea, Cockley Cley, Coltishall, Cromer Dersingham, Dilham,.
Norfolk wherry - back to the Viking invasion. After 1800, the Norfolk Keel (or 'keel wherry') disappeared, partly because a wherry could be sailed with fewer crew, and it had limited manoeuvrability and lacked speed. Wherries came in different sizes, according to the river they used. The North Walsham & Dilham Canal Wherry was max. 50' x 12' x 3'6". The River Ant Wherry was 50' x 12' max. The River Bure Wherry was 54'x 12' 8", but for the Aylsham Navigation, i.e. the upper reaches of the Bure, the boats had to be 12' 6" x 3'6" maximum. On the southern Broads, steam wherries were used. The River Waveney Wherry was 70' x 16' max. Wherries could be propelled by hand, if need be, by using a quant pole. A special wherry wheelbarrow.
Worstead - Worstead is a town in Norfolk, England, south of North Walsham and north of Wroxham. In the Domesday Book, Worstead is called Wrdesteda and Ordested. King Canute gave the town to the abbots of St. Benet's Abbey on the River Bure in the Norfolk Broads. It became very prosperous from the 12th century when weavers from Flanders arrived in the area. They had been encouraged to settle in Norfolk by King Edward III of England who had married a Flemish princess. "Walsham" cloth was light and for summer use, whereas "Worstead" was a heavier cloth. It is still referred to as worsted - the original name of the town. The last weaver, John Cubitt, died in 1882 at the age of 91. The oldest Act of Parliament kept in the House.
Worsted - from wool. The name derives from the village of Worstead [1] in Norfolk, England. The village became, along with North Walsham and Aylsham, a centre for the manufacture of yarn and cloth, after weavers from Flanders arrived in Norfolk in the 12th century. The yarn is well twisted and spun of long staple wool (though nowadays also medium and short fibres are used). The wool is combed so that the fibres lie parallel. The cloth has a hard, smooth texture, usually whipcord, gabardine or serge, and the usual weave is a twill weave. Worsted is also used for carpets, garments, hosiery and gloves. Contrast woolen.
List of towns in England - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newent, Newhaven, Newmarket, New Mills, New Milton, Newport, Isle of Wight, Newport, Shropshire, Newport Pagnell, Newquay, New Romney, Newton Abbot, Newton Aycliffe, Newton-le-Willows, Normanton, Northallerton, Northam, Northampton, North Walsham, Northwich, Norton Radstock, Norwich, Nottingham, Nuneaton O Oakham, Okehampton, Oldbury, Oldham, Ollerton, Olney, Ormskirk, Orpington, Ossett, Oswestry, Otley, Ottery St Mary, Oundle, Oxford P Paddock Wood, Padstow, Paignton, Painswick, Peacehaven, Penistone, Penrith, Penryn, Penzance, Pershore, Peterborough, Peterlee, Petersfield, Petworth, Pickering, Plymouth, Pocklington, Pontefract, Polegate, Poole, Portishead, Portland, Portslade, Portsmouth, Potters Bar, Potton, Poulton-le-Fylde, Prescot, Preston, Princes Risborough, Prudhoe, Pudsey Q Queenborough R Ramsgate, Raunds, Rayleigh, Reading, Redcar, Redditch, Redhill, Redruth, Reigate, Retford, Richmond, Richmond-upon-Thames, Rickmansworth, Ringwood, Ripley, Ripon, Rochdale, Rochester, Rochford, Romford, Romsey, Ross-on-Wye, Rothbury, Rotherham, Rothwell, Rowley Regis, Royston, Rugby, Rugeley, Runcorn, Rushden, Ryde, Rye S Saffron Walden, St Albans,.
Kathryn, North Dakota - Kathryn, North Dakota Kathryn is a city located in Barnes County, North Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 63. Geography \nKathryn is located at 46°40'46" North, 97°58'13" West (46.679373, -97.970202)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 km˛ (0.6 mi˛). 1.5 km˛ (0.6 mi˛) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 63 people, 29 households, and 18 families residing in the city. The population density is 41.2/km˛ (106.1/mi˛). There are 43 housing units at an average density of 28.1/km˛ (72.4/mi˛). The racial makeup of the city is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian,.
Karlsruhe, North Dakota - Karlsruhe, North Dakota Karlsruhe is a city located in McHenry County, North Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 119. Geography \nKarlsruhe is located at 48°5'27" North, 100°37'15" West (48.090862, -100.620829)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.0 km˛ (0.8 mi˛). 2.0 km˛ (0.8 mi˛) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 119 people, 54 households, and 32 families residing in the city. The population density is 60.5/km˛ (157.5/mi˛). There are 70 housing units at an average density of 35.6/km˛ (92.6/mi˛). The racial makeup of the city is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian,.
Kachemak, Alaska - 2000 census, the population of the city is 431. Geography \nKachemak is located at 59°40'24" North, 151°25'59" West (59.673395, -151.433170)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 km˛ (1.6 mi˛). 4.2 km˛ (1.6 mi˛) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. Demographics \nAs of the census2 of 2000, there are 431 people, 169 households, and 107 families residing in the city. The population density is 103.4/km˛ (268.0/mi˛). There are 219 housing units at an average density of 52.5/km˛ (136.2/mi˛). The racial makeup of the city is 87.47% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 5.80% Native American, 0.93% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other races, and 5.57% from two or more races. 1.62% of the population are Hispanic.
Kalifornsky, Alaska - 2000 census, the population of the town is 5,846. Geography \nKalifornsky is located at 60°28'24" North, 151°12'5" West (60.473421, -151.201427)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 181.7 km˛ (70.2 mi˛). 179.2 km˛ (69.2 mi˛) of it is land and 2.5 km˛ (1.0 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 1.37% water. Demographics \nAs of the census2 of 2000, there are 5,846 people, 2,117 households, and 1,596 families residing in the town. The population density is 32.6/km˛ (84.5/mi˛). There are 2,479 housing units at an average density of 13.8/km˛ (35.8/mi˛). The racial makeup of the town is 89.75% White, 0.24% Black or African American, 4.60% Native American, 0.67% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.60% from other races, and 4.05% from two or more.
Kasilof, Alaska - the 2000 census, the population of the town is 471. Geography \nKasilof is located at 60°20'7" North, 151°14'1" West (60.335274, -151.233594)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 27.4 km˛ (10.6 mi˛). 26.8 km˛ (10.4 mi˛) of it is land and 0.5 km˛ (0.2 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 1.99% water. Demographics \nAs of the census2 of 2000, there are 471 people, 180 households, and 124 families residing in the town. The population density is 17.6/km˛ (45.4/mi˛). There are 208 housing units at an average density of 7.8/km˛ (20.1/mi˛). The racial makeup of the town is 92.36% White, 0.64% Black or African American, 3.18% Native American, 0.21% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 3.40% from two or.
Karluk, Alaska - 2000 census, the population of the town is 27. Geography \nKarluk is located at 57°34'41" North, 154°21'45" West (57.578081, -154.362557)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 155.5 km˛ (60.0 mi˛). 149.5 km˛ (57.7 mi˛) of it is land and 5.9 km˛ (2.3 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 3.82% water. Demographics \nAs of the census2 of 2000, there are 27 people, 9 households, and 7 families residing in the town. The population density is 0.2/km˛ (0.5/mi˛). There are 24 housing units at an average density of 0.2/km˛ (0.4/mi˛). The racial makeup of the town is 0.00% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 96.30% Native American, 3.70% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more.
Kaktovik, Alaska - Kaktovik, Alaska Kaktovik is a city located in North Slope Borough, Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 293. Geography \nKaktovik is located at 70°7'58" North, 143°36'58" West (70.132832, -143.616230)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 km˛ (1.0 mi˛). 2.0 km˛ (0.8 mi˛) of it is land and 0.5 km˛ (0.2 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 21.00% water. Demographics \nAs of the census2 of 2000, there are 293 people, 89 households, and 70 families residing in the city. The population density is 143.2/km˛ (371.0/mi˛). There are 95 housing units at an average density of 46.4/km˛ (120.3/mi˛). The racial makeup of the city is 14.68% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 75.43% Native American,.
