The Close

The Close is a locality in Norwich District, Norfolk, England. The Close is situated nearby to the locality Holland Court, as well as near the neighborhood St James Place.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Norwich Cathedral and St Mary in the Marsh, Norwich.

Norwich Cathedral

Church

Photo: Aleister Crowley, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

St Mary in the Marsh is a parish in Norwich in Norfolk, England, dedicated to Mary the Virgin and formerly of a church of the same name. Founded prior to the Norman Conquest, the likely round-tower church was absorbed within the walls of the Norwich Cathedral close between 1250 and 1265, though retained its status as a parish church.

Norwich Castle

Museum

Photo: Bluemoose, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Norwich Castle is a medieval royal fortification in the city of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk. William the Conqueror ordered its construction in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norwich and Thorpe Hamlet.

Norwich

Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Norwich, a two-cathedral city, is the capital of the English county of Norfolk, within the larger region of East Anglia. It lies some 185 km NNE of London, and as well as being a convenient base for exploring the Broads and the North Norfolk Coast is also…

Thorpe Hamlet

Suburb

Photo: Colin, CC BY 2.0.

Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.

Golden Triangle

Locality

The Golden Triangle is a wedge-shaped area within the southwestern suburbs of Norwich, United Kingdom. The base of the Triangle is at the Colman Road stretch of the outer ring road, which is one mile southwest of the city's inner ring, with the other two sides – Earlham Road and Newmarket Road – pointing into the city centre.

The Close

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Norwich Cathedral Close”
Location: Norwich District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.6309° or 52° 37′ 51″ north

Longitude

1.30236° or 1° 18′ 9″ east

Elevation

23 feet (7 metres)

Open location code

9F43J8J2+9W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1380993778

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

GeoNames ID

13271448

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