Norwich (gbr)

Norwich

Norwich ranks 351st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Metz, Germany, and Wellington. Memorable people born in Norwich include Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Philip Pullman, and Peter Barlow. Memorable people who died in Norwich include Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Colin Chapman, and Thomas Browne. Norwich has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many biologists and chemists. Norwich is located in United Kingdom.

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about 100 mi (160 km) north-east of London, 40 mi (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 mi (105 km) east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals, it is the largest settlement and has the largest urban area in East Anglia. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider built-up area had a population of 213,166 in 2019. Read more on Wikipedia