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Salthouse

Salthouse lies on the North Norfolk coast between Weybourne and Cley-next-the-Sea.

The novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) rented the Great Eye Folly in Salthouse from 1950 to 1951. She lived here with her partner Valentine Ackland and spent the time working on her last novel The Flint Anchor (1954).

Randall's Folly, Salthouse Beach

The folly - a former coastguard building - was originally built by Onesiphorous Randall in the 19th Century but was seriously damaged by the great floods of 1953. It stood on the beach in an exposed and windswept location. Nothing remains of it today.

Salthouse has always been prone to flooding - lying, as it does, behind a low shingle bank.

View from Salthouse Church

Salthouse church, which is situated on a hill behind the village, provides a spectacular view across the marshes to the sea. The gravestones in the churchyard are particularly spooky - adorned with winged hourglasses and skulls. Many of the graves belong to sailors who died at sea. Today the church is home to an annual art exhibition.

Tombstone in Salthouse Churchyard

 
Links:

Salthouse History

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Cookie's Crab Shop

Salthouse Art

St. Nicholas' Church

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