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PLAQUE 20:
​Lion Yard

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Lion Yard Holt Owl Trail
Former bottling plant for Alfred Lee
Entrance to Lion Yard Holt Owl Trail
Entrance to Lion Yard
Railway station crossing 1920 Holt Owl Trail
Holt railway station crossing 1920
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Holt Railway Station 1920
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Christmas lights at Lion Yard

The narrowest part of the High Street...


The complex of buildings that can be found in Lion Yard were once used by Alfred Lee as a bottling plant for non-alcoholic drinks. As a leading entrepreneur in Holt, he provided accommodation for some of his employees. A residential property, ‘Lees Terrace’ in New Street, still bears his name today.

It is difficult to imagine that vehicles travelling along the A148 King’s Lynn to Cromer road once passed through the middle of our historic Georgian Town. Today the traffic is diverted  along the Holt By-Pass following the route of the old track bed of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway. 

The M&GN Railway was often fondly referred to ‘Muddle and Go Nowhere’ and fell victim to the cuts imposed by Dr Beeching, the infamous ‘axe-man’ responsible for the closure of thousands of miles of railways in the 1960’s and 1970’s. 

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Come and visit the Holt Owl Trail soon!
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