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Extract from the Cromer Travel Guides:
Dramatically poised on a high bluff,
CROMER
should be the most memorable of the Norfolk coastal resorts, but its fine aspect is undermined by a dispiriting shabbiness in the streets and shopfronts. The tower of
St Peter and St Paul
, at 160ft the tallest in Norfolk, attests to the port's medieval wealth, but it was the advent of the railway in the 1880s that heralded the most frenetic flurry of building activity. A bevy of grand Edwardian hotels was constructed along the seafront and for a moment Cromer became the most fashionable of resorts, but the gloss soon wore off and only the seen-better-days
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