Qualla: Cley next the Sea https://qualla.com/cley-next-the-sea en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:44 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cley next the Sea https://qualla.com/cley-next-the-sea Cley next the Sea: Introduction https://qualla.com/cley-next-the-sea/ The name is a small joke that history has played on the village. Cley next the Sea has not actually been next to the sea since the 17th century, when land reclamation pushed the coastline north and stranded the old quay among salt marshes and reed beds. Walk through the narrow streets today and you can still read the village's prosperous past in its architecture: Flemish gables stepping up to the sky in tribute to a Low Countries trade in grain, malt, fish and spices that once made this one of the busiest ports in England. The windmill at the edge of the marsh, five storeys of tarred tower mill, has been standing there since the 18th century, watching the tide line drift steadily out of reach.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/t/cley-next-the-sea-wp/u12t-cley-next-the-sea-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cley next the Sea: How to Say a Village https://qualla.com/cley-next-the-sea/ The pronunciation is contested even among the people who live here. Locally, many call it "cly," rhyming with spy, and the village's own website agrees. Scholars argue for "clay," rhyming with day, because the name descends from the Anglo-Saxon claeg, meaning clay, and the Domesd...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/t/cley-next-the-sea-wp/u12t-cley-next-the-sea-fire-flemish-gables-and-a-windmill.mp3 0:06 3 full Cley next the Sea: The Day the War Arrived https://qualla.com/cley-next-the-sea/ In early August 1914 the poet Rupert Brooke was staying in Cley with the classicist Francis Cornford and his wife Frances, herself a poet. The news that Britain had entered the war reached the village while Brooke was there. He had dreamt the war the night before and woke to find...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/t/cley-next-the-sea-wp/u12t-cley-next-the-sea-the-day-the-war-arrived.mp3 0:06 4 full Cley next the Sea: Britain's Oldest Reserve https://qualla.com/cley-next-the-sea/ The Norfolk Wildlife Trust took on the marshes in 1926, making Cley Marshes the oldest county Wildlife Trust reserve in Britain. The location is geographically lucky: the apex of the North Norfolk coast is a natural funnel for migrating birds, and the marshes attract avocets, bea...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/t/cley-next-the-sea-wp/u12t-cley-next-the-sea-britains-oldest-reserve.mp3 0:06 5 full Cley next the Sea: St Margaret's on the Green https://qualla.com/cley-next-the-sea/ Up on Cley Green stands St Margaret's, Grade I listed, dedicated to Margaret of Antioch. The mercantile de Vaux family paid for it in the 14th century and the mason William de Ramsey began the work, only to have construction halted by the Black Death sweeping through East Anglia....

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