Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Norfolk (county)

​NORFOLK. A county of England, bounded on the N. and E. by the North Sea, on the W. by Cambridgeshire, and on the S. by Suffolk County. Its total area is 2,053 square miles. It is chiefly an agricultural and stock-raising country, but there are important manufactories of textiles. The chief rivers are the Ouse, Yare, and Bure. Pop. about 550,000.

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