Transcribed from the 1802 Thomas Peck edition ,. Many thanks to Norfolk and NorwichMillennium Library, UK, for kindly allowing their copy to be usedfor this transcription.
CONTAINING
An Alphabetical List of thePrincipal Inhabitants, their
Address, Profession, or Trade.
A CONCISE
HISTORY of NORWICH;
Pointing out the most remarkablePlaces in it worthy the
Attention of Strangers.
WITH THEFOLLOWING TABLES:
Streets, lanes, markets, churches, meeting-house, and publicbuildings. Court of aldermen, sheriffs, common-council,city officers, and committees. The bishop’s, dean andchapter’s, excise, stamp, and post office. Court ofRequest, Hospitals, treasurers, and court of guardians. Bankers, physicians, surgeons, attorneys, Saturday merchants,&c. Inns, coffee-houses, coaches, waggons,carriers. Lodges of free masons. Fairs inNorfolk. Boarding schools, boarding and lodging houses,&c. The population of Norwich. London and Hulltraders, and pack-ships from Yarmouth.
TO WHICH ISADDED,
A RETROSPECT of the PUBLICIMPROVEMENTS,
Proposed by a Committee formedfor that purpose.
WITH ANENGRAVED
PLAN of the CITY, with REFERENCES.
BY THOMAS PECK
Norwich
PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. PAYNE,BOOKSELLER, 22, MARKET-
PLACE.
To Jeremiah Ives, jun.Esq.
SIR,
The High Office of Mayor of this City, so honourablyfilled by yourself, claims the respectful acknowledgementof the Publisher of this work, who is happy to receivepermission of dedicating to you this publication; andis, with all due respect,
Your very Obliged
and Obedient Servant,
THOMAS PECK.
The difficulty of finding the precise Address of theInhabitants of so populous a city as Norwich, the general utilityof a Directory, and the spirit of Public Improvement which has oflate appeared, have, at the present period, rendered thispublication peculiarly necessary.
The contents are fully expressed in the title-page, thearrangement is adapted to every capacity, and will be found toanswer every useful purpose.
The houses in each street are all regularly numbered,beginning on the right hand, and returning on the left, with afew exceptions for the sake of convenience.
The boards, with the names of the streets, lanes, andthorough-fares, which are now correctly painting, will be put upat the corner, or entrance of each; and the whole will becompleted as soon as possible.
It is with the greatest pleasure we review the manyalterations for public convenience which have been recently made:in particular—
The Reservoir in Chapel-field, which, by the aid of asteam-engine, is always filled, and supplies the highest parts ofthe city with water.
The taking down of Brazen-doors, St. Stephen’s, St.Giles’, St. Benedict’s, St. Augustine’s,Pockthorpe, Bishop, and King-street Gates; thereby admitting acurrent