Looking into Purfleet Place
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Looking into Purfleet Place
Image: © John M Taken: 13 Sep 2015
The Elizabethan watchtower at Clifton House provided the merchant owner a view down the River Great Ouse towards the Wash. The river course would have been closer to the properties. The river channel was diverted from Wisbech to Lynn in the 1260s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.75318
Longitude
0.393017