Historic Colegate Walking Tour

Name: Historic Colegate Walking Tour
Start: 2025-03-19T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-19T15:45:00+00:00
Location: Maids Head Hotel

Wed Mar 19 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:45 pm UTC+00:00

Maids Head Hotel | Norwich

Publisher/HostPaul Dickson Tours

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A 1½ hour guided walking tour looking at the stories of the people and places in Colegate, an area bursting with the history of Norwich. The tour starts outside the Maids Head Hotel in Tombland. Includes tea or coffee at the hotel at the end of the tour.
Hear about the 9th century Danes, medieval friars, Tudor fires and religious dissent, along with 18th century merchants, the great Norwich writers Amelia Opie and Harriet Martineau, John Crome and the Norwich School of Painters and the city’s lost shoe industry. See Norwich’s hidden church the Old Meeting House and much more.