Editing Blakeney, Norfolk (section)

===Haven===
[[File:Salthouse ancient channel map.jpg|350px|thumb|The inlet in 1649]]
Blakeney Haven was a deeper inlet on the north coast of [[Norfolk]] into which the [[River Glaven]] flowed. Sheltered behind [[Blakeney Point]], it was a major shipping area in the [[Middle Ages]], with relatively important North Norfolk ports at [[Wiveton]], [[Cley next the Sea]] and Blakeney itself. Cley and Wiveton silted up in the 17th century, but Blakeney prospered, especially after the channel to the Haven was deepened in 1817. [[Packet ship]]s ran from that port to [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]] and [[London]] from 1840. This trade declined as ships became too large for the harbour, and it is now silted up with access only for small boats.<ref name=pevsner>{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author2=Wilson, Bill |title=The Buildings of England Norfolk I: Norwich and North-East Norfolk |year=2002 |location=New Haven and London |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0-300-09607-0 |pages=394–397}}</ref>

From the 12th century Blakeney had a reputation for acts of piracy: between 1328 and 1350 it is recorded that men of Blakeney boarded two vessels sailing from [[Flanders]] and sailed them back to Blakeney haven, where they were stripped of their cargoes. Many a foreign merchant ship which sought shelter in the haven found its cargo stolen. Such was the lawlessness of the residents that the village refused to supply a ship for the battle against the [[Spanish Armada]].<ref name="doom"/><ref name=wright>{{cite journal |last=Wright |first=John |year=2002 |title=The origins of Blakeney Church |journal=Glaven Historian |volume=5 |pages=26–34}}</ref>