Norfolk

Norfolk, an eastern maritime county of England, lies N. of Suffolk, and presents a long eastern and northern foreshore (90 m.) to the German Ocean; the Wash lies on the NW. border; light fertile soils, and an undulating, well-watered surface favour an extensive and highly developed agriculture, of which fruit-growing and market-gardening are special features; rabbits and game abound in the great woods and sand-dunes; the chief rivers are the Ouse, Bure, and Yare, and these and other streams form in their courses a remarkable series of inland lakes known as the Broads (q.v.); its antiquities of Roman and Saxon times are many and peculiarly interesting.

Population (circa 1900) given as 455,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)