Norwich
Norwich names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Norwich a city and one of the county-seats of New London co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and one of the county-seats of New London co., Conn.; the Thames river, and on the Central on Vermont and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads; 13 miles N. of New London. It comprises the villages of Greeneville, Yantic, Norwich Town, Fair Ground, Norwich, and Taftville. Here are a Free Academy, the Otis Free Academy, a public hospital, libraries, 16,185; (1920) 24,966. electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactures of firearms, locks, cotton and woolen fabrics, printing presses, bicycle chains, type, silk ribbons, electrical supof the nasal fossæ. plies, leather belting, machinery, rolled and cast iron, harness, stoves, furnaces, nickel-plated goods, hosiery, etc. Pop. (1910) 20,367; (1920) 29,685.
Norwich a city of England
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of England, capital of the country of Norfolk, on the river Wensum. It is 5 miles in circumference, and is skirted on the N. and E. by the river. Prominent among the public buildings are the castle, built about the 10th cer century and the cathedral in the Norman style. Its manufactures include bandanas, bombazines, shawls, several important printing shops and It damasks, camelets, book-binderies. crapes, gauzes, muslins, silk, and cotton fabrics, and shoes; also iron and brass foundries, public buildings. (1920), 12,627. oil, corn and mustard mills, etc. Pop. (1917) 108,877.
Norwich a town and county-seat of Chenango co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a town and county-seat of Chenango co., N. Y.; on the Chenango river, the Chenango canal, the Lackawanna, and the New York, Ontario and Western rail railroads; 41 miles N. N. E. of Binghamton. hamton. It contains a stone and published court house, circulating libraries, Naa tional banks, and several weekly newspapers, and has manufactures of pianos, blast-furnaces, knitting goods, hammers, carriages, drugs and medicines, silk goods, chairs, machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,422; (1920) 8,268. 2, 1566.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 list of Norwich, England's trades - bombazines, camelets, crapes, gauzes - describes a textile industry that had all but vanished within a generation; the city's modern economy rests instead on insurance (Norwich Union, absorbed into Aviva in 2000), publishing and the University of East Anglia, founded in 1963, and Norwich was named a UNESCO City of Literature in 2012. Its population, given as 108,877 for 1917, is now roughly 145,000 in the city district and larger again counting the built-up area, and the castle keep the entry dates to "about the 10th century" is now firmly placed in the early 12th, built under Henry I. In Connecticut, Norwich's mills making cotton, woolen and firearms have closed, though the Norwich Free Academy still teaches; the city has grown only modestly, to about 40,000, while the Mohegan Sun casino, opened in 1996 just downriver, reshaped the local economy. Norwich, New York, has actually shrunk to under 7,000, but its "drugs and medicines" line became the Norwich Pharmacal Company, the original maker of Pepto-Bismol.
Written for this edition, 2026.