Norwich is an ancient English city in the county of Norfolk in East Anglia. Its attractions include medieval churches, a Norman cathedral, defensive walls linking 13th-century gateways and watchtowers, a warren of narrow shopping streets, cobbled lanes lined with merchants’ houses dating back to 15th-century Tudor times, elegant town houses built in the 17th and 18th centuries, a covered market that has attracted traders since the 11th century, and a 900-year-old castle that is today home to Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery.
The 11th-century castle, once a royal fortress and later a prison, became the home of Norwich Museum in 1894 and houses the city’s collections of fine art, costumes, textiles, jewellery, silver, glass wares, ceramics and, since 1989, a collection of almost 3,000 British teapots, many of which…
