NHER 50381 (Monument record) - Cemetery

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Summary

Mid 19th century cemetery.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TF94SW
Civil Parish	WELLS NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Mid 19th century cemetery. Contains a tall cross, a memorial to five coastguardsmen and six Royal Navy seamen and four of their graves. The men drowned in the winter of 1898 when offloading stores from the HMS Alarm, the seamen being the crew of a boat sent to rescue the coastguards. Restored in 1977.
(S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA).

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF70655 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1977. [Article and letter to the editor on the memorial for the men who died in 1898 in Wells-next-the-sea].

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Record last edited

Jan 16 2018 9:55AM