Bygone Norfolk Ed by W Andrews Author:William Andrews General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Hncient ll)armoutb. By C. H. Compton. "7ARMOUTH, or, as it was first called in the JL reign of Edward I., Great Yarmouth, is situate on the Norfolk side of the mouth of the river Yare. It was called Great Yarmouth to distinguish it from Little Yarmouth on the Suffolk side of the river, formerly called Gorleston, with which it is now connected by a bridge. We learn from the Notitia Imperil, or Survey of the Roman Empire, supposed to have been written in the reigns of Valentian III. and Theodosius II., in A. d. 421-460, that one of the stations under the command of the Count of the Saxon Shore in Britain was Gariannonum (the mouth of the Yare), where the commander of the Stablesian horse, designed as a watch for this part of the shore, was stationed: hence that commander was styled Garianncmensis, the commander at the mouth of the Garienis, the river now called Yare. This river has abandoned its ancient channel, and left no traces of its former course or of the ancient . situation ofGariannonum. It is a disputed point where the ancient Roman station was situated. Camden and the generality of writers fix on Burgh Castle, on the Suffolk side of the river ; whilst others, including Sir Henry Spelman, consider Caistor, a small village four miles on the Norfolk side, the site of the ancient fortress. There were formerly two channels by which the Yare entered the ocean : the one near Caistor, and the other near Gorleston, between which there was formed a sandbank along the sea-shore, afterwards called " Cerdric's Sand ; " so called from Cerdric, the tenth in descent from Woden, having A. d. 495, with his s...« less