Lost King's Lynn

Medieval Kingʼs Lynn (Bishopʼs Lynn before 1537) was a premier English port, a position it retained until the Industrial Revolution. Its maritime economy was undermined by the coming of the railways, which were the harbinger of modest industrialisation. The major watershed in the ancient boroughʼs fortunes arrived in 1962 when it was designated a London overspill town. Though the new industrial an...