Guided Heritage Walks
The Greater Yarmouth area has some fantastic history and architecture to admire, and some colourful stories of local characters to go with it! Taking place from May to October, Heritage guided walks, led by an official Great Yarmouth heritage guide, are one of the most fascinating ways of discovering more about the town and surrounding area.
Rows, Fishwives and Body Snatchers explores the area around the narrow Great Yarmouth rows, where fishing industry workers lived almost on top of each other, with wealthy merchants houses at one end and pubs, bars and brothels at the other. Was this a match made in heaven? Join the tour to find out more!
Great Yarmouth is rightly proud of its medieval town wall, one of the most complete medieval walls in England. Large sections of wall and complete remaining towers can be seen all over town. This fascinating guided walk explores why they were necessary, who came up with the money, how they got built and who got their hands dirty carrying out the hard work.
The seaside holiday was a great British invention with bathing machines and docking ships side by side on the beach. Join the Sea, Sand and Spending a Penny guided tour to find out all about the fashion trends for seaside bathing.
In July and August only, the popular Eerie Tales and Yarmouth Yarns tour is one way of spending your evening ... Hear tales and legends from the oldest streets and alleyways in the town, as stories passed down from generation to generation are retold once again as the walk takes in the spookiest, most chilling locations around town. Tales from times gone by about ‘The Lost Fishing Fleet' and yarns from long ago about ‘The Grey Lady' and ‘The Highwayman in Lily Pit' are guaranteed to spook you!
Watch out for some weekend special walks as well for 2011 - looking at Graveyards, Nelson, Gorleston and the Historic South Quay and Lydia Eva. More information can be found in the 2011 Heritage Guided Walks leaflet, click here to download your copy.
