Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

Harwich was first settled in 1670 as part of Yarmouth.

John Patch, a mariner in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia developed a two-bladed, fan-shaped propeller in 1832 and publicly demonstrated it in 1833, propelling a row boat across Yarmouth Harbour and a small coastal schooner at Saint John, New Brunswick, but his patent application in the United States was rejected until 1849 because he was not an American citizen.

In 1504 he was elected to Parliament to represent Great Yarmouth and in 1510 to represent London.

Early in his career he was a cinema organist and later started working in summer orchestras in British seaside resorts ( including Blackpool and Great Yarmouth ), for which he learned to play the piano accordion.

's ) based at Great Yarmouth from November 1942 to 1945, and was " Mentioned in Dispatches ".

David was born in Blunderston near Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, England in 1820.

The tree stood in Yarmouth, Maine, where it was cared for by the town's tree warden, Frank Knight.

Although deliberately creating the impression — in order to frighten the Dutch population into an invasion scare — that transports, carrying an army, were sailing immediately behind the war fleet, in fact the ( rather small ) invasion force was left in Yarmouth, only to be shipped after a full control over the seas had been attained.

The new section was a private navigation which was not controlled by the Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commissioners, who had responsibility for the rest of the Broadland rivers.

In 1814 the merchants of Norwich first suggested a plan to improve the route between Norwich and the North Sea, as the shallowness of Breydon Water created difficulties for trading vessels, and there was organised theft of cargo during its trans-shipment at Great Yarmouth, for which 18 men were convicted of taking the goods and one of receiving it in 1820.

The initial plan was to dredge a deeper channel along the southern edge of Breydon Water, but the scheme was opposed by the people of Yarmouth.

A more expensive scheme, involving the construction of a new cut to link the River Yare to the River Waveney, together with a channel between Oulton Broad and Lake Lothing, where a sea lock was needed, was also opposed by Yarmouth, but formed the basis of a Bill to Parliament.

The charter of King John ( 1208 ), which gave his burgesses of Yarmouth general liberties according to the customs of Oxford, a gild merchant and weekly hustings, was amplified by several later charters asserting the rights of the borough against Little Yarmouth and Gorleston.

A thirteenth century charter was granted by Henry III ( 1207 – 1272 ) to the town of Great Yarmouth.

In the early 18th Century Yarmouth, as a thriving herring port, was vividly and admiringly described several times in Daniel Defoe's travel journals, in part as follows:

Speedway racing was staged in Great Yarmouth before and after the Second World War.

Construction work on the Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour began in June 2007 and was completed by 2009, it is a deep-water harbour on the North Sea.

The town is named after Great Yarmouth, a town in the county of Norfolk, on the east coast of England, which is itself at the mouth of the river Yare.

There is some speculation it was named after Yarmouth, Massachusetts, as some of the earliest English settlers arrived from Cape Cod on 9 June 1761.

It is more likely the Township was named after Lady Yarmouth, a mistress of King George II.

Three Wightlink ferries have run from Lymington to Yarmouth since the 1970s, named after Anglo Saxon Kings: Cenred, Cenwulf and Caedmon.

Anna Sewell was born in Yarmouth, England and had a brother named Philip, who was an engineer in Europe.

The resurrected service in 1955 saw new ferry terminals constructed in Yarmouth and Bar Harbor and used the newly commissioned ferry MV Bluenose, named after Nova Scotia's famous racing schooner Bluenose.

His father, also named Rufus Anderson, was Congregationalist pastor of the church in North Yarmouth.

During 1997 the company relocated to a new corporate campus in Yarmouth, Maine, that features a giant model of the world, named Eartha, the largest rotating globe in the world.

Since the Yarmouthian ( Yarmouth ) interglacial was named, the stratigraphy of Pleistocene deposits was found to be far more complex then the two glacial tills and one volcanic ash bed on which the Yarmouthian, Kansan, Nebraskan, and Aftonian glacial-interglacial nomenclature was originally based.

In Britain, the same but differently named product, the " fish fingers ", was developed in its old factory in Great Yarmouth.

The town is patrolled by the Second ( Yarmouth ) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police.

For instance Thomas Nashe wrote in 1599 about a fisherman from Lothingland in the Great Yarmouth area who discovered smoking herring by accident.

Wellfleet is patrolled by the Second ( Yarmouth ) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police.

The Broads Authority also has members appointed by Natural England, Great Yarmouth Port Authority and the Environment Agency.

Power passed to five politicians known collectively by a whimsical and secondly William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth

The council district with the highest rate is Norwich closely followed by Great Yarmouth.

Inside the region, the highest rate is Great Yarmouth with 6. 2 %, followed by Peterborough, Ipswich and Southend-on-Sea on 4. 7 %.

* " Herbie " in Yarmouth, Maine, stood by present-day East Main Street ( Route 88 ) from 1793-2010.

The Broads, although administered by the Broads Authority, give their name to the Broadland local government district, while parts of the Broads also lie within other council areas: North Norfolk, South Norfolk, Norwich and Great Yarmouth ( all in Norfolk ) and Waveney district in Suffolk.

In 1668 Charles II incorporated Little Yarmouth in the borough by a charter which with one brief exception remained in force until 1703, when Anne replaced the two bailiffs by a mayor.

From 1808 to 1814 the Admiralty in London could communicate with its ships in the port of Great Yarmouth by a shutter telegraph chain.

During World War I Great Yarmouth suffered the first aerial bombardment in the UK, by Zeppelin L3 on 19 January 1915.

Local football clubs are served by the Great Yarmouth and District League.

The centre is run by the Great Yarmouth Sport and leisure Trust.

Great Yarmouth is connected to Norwich by the Wherry Lines from Great Yarmouth railway station, it is served by an hourly service provided by Greater Anglia via Acle or, less frequently, via Reedham.