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Sailing, not riding Oh as I  was a riding  along,                                          In the heighth of my glory. Oh as I was  a-riding along,                                           Oh come hear my sad story.                                         Oh a fair and handsome maiden I did see,                 And I asked her if she’d come along with me           Some pleasure and some pastime to see                   A...

Norwich is named as England’s first UNESCO City of Literature ‘Do different’, they say here. There is a stubborn independence in the Norfolk character, born from centuries of invasion by Romans, Danes, Vikings, Angles and Saxons. This low-lying county, once home to Boudicca and the Iceni people, has over one hundred miles of coastline. It is a wild place of heath, flint and big skies. In some parts of Norfolk you can drive for miles without seeing a house. Burnham Overy Staithe And in the middle sits Norwich, the most easterly city in the UK. This former seat of the Saxon Earls of East Anglia became the capital of what was the most populous region in Norman England. By the 14 th century, the walled city of Norwich covered an area bigger than London. With more medieval churches than any city north of the Alps, Norwich became one of Europe’s great seedbeds of religious art and architecture. As Nicholas Pevsner wrote: ‘Norwi...