Discover... The East of England
11 Sep 2006East Anglia is a beautiful land of ghosts. In the 13th century this was the most densely populated part of Britain, but the last 700 years have seen a slow decline.
As England’s primary economic focus shifted from trade with the Low Countries to its Empire and the great Atlantic ports in the west, large-scale depopulation occured in the east. A common sight in this region today is an incongruously huge medieval church towering over a tiny, shrunken village.
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