Villages by the Sea

How Dutch settlers in the 1500s transformed the Norfolk village of Cley next the Sea

Archaeologist Ben Robinson visits the Norfolk village of Cley next the Sea and finds that due to Dutch settlers in the Elizabethan era, it's not as 'next the sea' as it once was. Ben talks to historian Onyeka Nubia, who reveals that the village was part of a cosmopolitan community that introduced Britain to the canary and even the beer people drink today