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Mundesley

Mundesley lies on the north Norfolk coast between Paston and Trimingham.

In 1795 the poet William Cowper came to stay with his cousin John Johnson in a house on the High Street. It is now known as 'Cowper House'.

Cowper House Mundesley

Cowper soon decided to move inland because the sea air was affecting his eyes - as the following extract from one of his letters shows:
 
'My walks on the sea-shore have been paid for by swelled and inflamed eyelids, and I now recollect that such was always the condition of mine in the same situation, - a natural effect, I suppose at least upon eyelids so subject to disorder as mine, of the salt spray and cold winds, which on the coast are hardly ever less than violent.'

While staying in Mundesley Cowper used to walk along the coast to Happisburgh. On one occasion, he also went by boat to see Happisburgh Lighthouse - a journey which may have inspired his late, desolate poem The Castaway.

See also Dereham and Mattishall.
 
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