Architect Basil Champneys is associated with King's Lynn. He was a founder member of the Art Workers Guild in 1884.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in Norfolk, England, 98 miles (158ย km) north of London, 36 miles (58ย km) north-east of Peterborough, 44 miles (71ย km) north-north-east of Cambridge and 44 miles (71ย km) west of Norwich.
1Economy King's Lynn has always been a centre for fishing and seafood (especially inshore prawns, shrimps and cockles). There have also been glass-making and small-scale engineering works โ many fairground and steam engines were built here. It still contains much farm-related industry, including food processing. There are several chemical factories and the town retains a role as an import centre. In general, it is a regional centre for a still sparsely populated part of England.
King's Lynn was the fastest growing port in Great Britain in 2008. Department for Transport figures show that through-put increased by 33 per cent.
In 2008, the German Palm Group began to erect one of the world's largest paper machines, constructed by Voith Paper. With a web speed of up to 2000 metres a minute and a web width of 10.63 metres, it can produce 400,000 tons a year of newsprint paper, based on 100-per-cent recycled paper. The start-up was on 21 August 2009.
The Port of King's Lynn has facilities for dry bulk cargo such as cereals and liquid bulk products such as petroleum products for Pace Petroleum. It also handles timber imported from Scandinavia and the Baltics and has handling sheds for steel imports.
King's Lynn is the prime retail centre in West Norfolk and beyond. The town centre is dominated by budget shops, reflecting the spending power of much of the population. The town centre fulfils a leisure role with entertainment centres, bars and restaurants, and has a range of service functions. It provides about 5,300 retailing jobs.
The town centre has 73,000 sq. m. of retail floor space in 347 shops, which exceeds the comparable centres of Bury St Edmunds and Boston. However, whilst the percentage of floor space in comparison shopping and that occupied by multiple retailers is above the national average, King's Lynn offers a more limited range of choice.
Tourism in King's Lynn is a minor industry, but it attracts visitors to its historic centr, and as a base for visiting the Queen's home at Sandringham and other country houses in the area. Within the town and across the nearby Fenland are some of the finest historic churches in Britain, built in a period when King's Lynn and its hinterland were wealthy from trade and wool.
1King's Lynn has a population of over 42,800 people. King's Lynn also forms the centre of the wider King's Lynn and West Norfolk District which has a population of over 151,383 people.
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๐ฆ๐บ Bayside, Australia ๐ฉ๐ช Emmerich am Rhein, GermanyArchitect Basil Champneys is associated with King's Lynn. He was a founder member of the Art Workers Guild in 1884.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect William Arthur Aickman is associated with King's Lynn.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Frederick George Southgate is associated with King's Lynn. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1937.
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Melton Mowbray 52.766
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Loughborough 52.769
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Swadlincote 52.772
๐ต๐ฑ Bielsk Podlaski 52.774
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๐ฉ๐ช Oranienburg 52.75
๐ต๐ฑ Gorzรณw Wielkopolski 52.738
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Shrewsbury 52.707
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Kings Lynn 0.415
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Bexhill-on-Sea 0.46
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Chelmsford 0.474
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Basildon 0.49
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Thurrock 0.375
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Gravesend 0.369
๐ง๐ซ Fada N'gourma 0.367
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Skegness 0.337
Locations Near: King's Lynn 0.3976,52.7543
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ March 0.088,52.551 d: 30.8
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Skegness 0.337,53.145 d: 43.7
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Ely 0.25,52.383 d: 42.4
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Dereham 0.94,52.681 d: 37.4
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Cambridge 0.117,52.2 d: 64.5
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Sudbury 0.599,52.141 d: 69.5
Antipodal to: King's Lynn -179.602,-52.754
๐น๐ด Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16479.2
๐ฆ๐ธ Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15665
๐ผ๐ธ Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15631.8
๐ต๐ซ Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15310
๐บ๐ธ Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11615.4
๐บ๐ธ Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11544
๐บ๐ธ Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11532.4
๐บ๐ธ Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 11516.1