Geography
A town is divided inside 2 by Lake Lothing, with a northern half existence a commercial message centre & a southern half existence a resort.

A town has ii piers: a South Pier which forms a southern boundary of the harbour, & the Claremont Pier astir a single mile farther in the south. In the early a share of the 20th century, the Claremont Pier got the T-shaped pier head & was utilized as a boarding point for the rider steamships that operated between London to the south and Great Yarmouth to the north.

A inshore boundary of a harbour occurs as strip of land called a Old Extension, or even the Northerly Extension. All over a previous few decades a Extension has been a places of activity supporting a N Sea oil & flatulency industry; particularly a construction of rigs. For numerous years prior to that, e.g. inside a Sixties, the Extension was unused by any industry, existence derelict however showing signs of an earliest period of industrial activity in its old railway tracks & buildings.

Lowestoft railway station, which serves the town gives regular modems to Norwich and Ipswich. There are besides two or three services directly to London Liverpool Street. A lot services come operated by 'One' Railway. There was likewise the straight return Great Yarmouth's Southtown station, until it was closed in 1970 following of the Beeching Axe. That hyperlink involved Lowestoft N station, a places of which is today occupied by Beeching Cause, placed upright to the east of the A12 opposite the Denes High School. the bit of of the original route to the west of the A12 has today been mass produced into a not vehicular public right of way, after getting been left unused & overgrown for numerous years.

History
A title is said to came from either toft (the Viking word for "homestead"') and Loth or even Lowe (the Viking male title). A town's title has been spelled multifariously: Lothnwistoft, Lestoffe, Laistoe, Loystoft, Laystoft. An guide derivation of the title which is taught around local schools is that these are non an Anglo-Saxon name at all, however the derivation from either consonantal shift, from a personal injury settlement before the agrarian village, founded by John Edward Hloover. Across a period of trey centuries, the original title of "Hloover's Toft" was contracted to "Lowestoft". A local modern pronunciation drops a final 't' truncating it to "Lowstuff".

In the Domesday Book, Lowestoft is described as a small farming village of Twenty families, or even astir One c population. Rent for the land was paid to the landholder Hugh de Montfort in herrings.

In the Middle Ages, Lowestoft developed into a camping port. Great Yarmouth saw Lowestoft as a rival & tried to click it away from a herring trade.

In the 1665, the number 1 battle of the Second Dutch War was the Battle of Lowestoft near the town.

In a period of the 1790s, Lowestoft's fishing community established their have "Beach Village", sleep in upturned boats.

In the 19th century, the arrival of Sir Samuel Morton Peto brought about a brobdingnagian vary within Lowestoft's fortunes. Peto began by building the rail hyperlink between Lowestoft & Norwich, and links with more town presently followed. He developed a harbour & provided mooring for 1,000 boats. This gave a boost to trade by having the Continent. He likewise established Lowestoft as a flourishing seaside holiday resort.

In a period of the Second World War the town was used as a navigation point by German bombers. Following is was a virtually all heavy bombed town by the head of people in the UK. Old mines & bombs come however dredged higher & keep around been risky to transport ever since.

Lowestoft porcelain
In a period of the 2nd half of the 18th century, a manufactory around Crown Street produced soft-paste porcelain ware. Things however survive, & there are collections at a museum inside Nicholas Everett Park, Oulton Broad, & at a Castle Museum, Norwich.

Floods
Lowestoft has been subject to periodical overflowing, the most memorable was in January 1953 when the Northward Sea great caused by depression & a high tide swept away numbers of of the older sea defences & deluged virtually all of the southern town.

Wind turbine
a brobdingnagian wind turbine, built inside December 2004, currently dominates the town. These are the world's big wind turbine.

A constructiin of the wind turbine began on Tuesday 7 December 2004 with a 108 m high crane lifting the 71 tonne Tower Lower Section. A 65 t Tower Middle Subdivision, 46 t Tower Top Part, 83 metric ton nacelle and 54 tonne, 92 m across Rotor Blade Assembly were erected in Friday 10 December 2004. the freshly turbine began giving electricity within January 2005 & has a giving capacity of as much as Two.75 MW, although the original proposal was for an potentially large Trine.Deuce MW turbine.

A hub height is Lxxx m (262 foot). A blade tip height is 126 m (413 foot). A nacelle assembly weighs 83 t & is Eleven.Deuce m (37 foot) yearn, Triplet.Triplet m (Xi foot) wide, Trey.Eighter from decatur m (Twelve.Five foot) high, getting it the title large wind turbine in mainland UK as of April 2005.

Both of the Ternion blades weighs Decade t & is 44.Eight m (147 foot) yearn. A overall across of the rotor assembly is 92 m (301 foot). A blade tips slice through the air at astir 150 miles per hour. A turbulence this generates accounts for the pulsing "whooshing" noise hearable when you have underneath.

Fisheries
The big piscary locate centre which occurs as a share of Defra is located in south Lowestoft.

Literary and artistic connections
Lowestoft has the total of literary & artistic modems. A composer Benjamin Britten was born withwithin Lowestoft in 1913.

In the 1840s, Charles Dickens came to stay with Sir Samuel Morton Peto. Lowestoft's Beach Village became, along using Blundeston village, the inspiration for David Copperfield.

Joseph Conrad came to live within Lowestoft in 1878 from his native Poland. Edward Fitzgerald, the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, lived in Lowestoft. W.G. Sebald, who taught at the University of East Anglia and was tragically killed in 2001, wrote about Lowestoft in The Rings of Saturn.

Glam rock band, The Darkness was formed inside Lowestoft however spent their formative years in London. 3 of the iv founder members were raised inside Lowestoft. Justin Hawkins, Dan Hawkins and Ed Graham all attended Kirkley High School.

Besides, Scenes from either Coronation Street were filmed at a local hotel.

Places of interest
The East Anglia Transport Museum is located nearby.