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Walking in Norfolk
The Fens, an area of dykes, ditches, rivers and remote villages created by centuries of reclamation provide an altogether different landscape. Downham Market, a small hillside town on the edge of the Fens, provides an ideal base from which to explore the surrounding countryside and waterways. The recently restored Denver Mill nearby is well worth a visit.
Weston Longville - This village, set in gently rolling countryside is noted as the setting for 'The Diary of a Country Parson' recording the tranquil yet fascinating life of rector, James Woodforde. It is a work still widely enjoyed as an insight into people's lives in the late 18th century; the farmers, servants, doctors, tradesmen and squires the rector came into contact with. The second part of the village name came from Longville priory in Normandy, to which its tithes were transferred at the turn of the 12th century by its Norman lord of the manor. OS Maps: Explorer™ 238 A Walk from Weston Longville [TG 114159]
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Think
of Norfolk and you most probably think of the Norfolk Broads, those
lovely stretches of water linked by the rivers Bure, Ant and Thurne.
Although the Broads are primarily known for their boating holidays,
this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, soon to become a National Park,
has beautiful scenery, pretty villages such as Potter Heigham and Horning,
and can be enjoyed by walking as well as boating. The Broads were cut
in the middle Ages by peat-diggers, and they have been plied ever since
by all manner of craft. There are windmills to explore, good pubs for
lunch, and abundant birdlife to observe, including Coots, Crested Grebe,
and Marsh Harriers. With stunning sunsets in summer, misty mornings
in autumn and the breeze rustling the reeds in winter, the Norfolk Broads
offer something for every season.
The
picturesque North norfolk coastline stretches for 43 miles and three
quarters of this coastline is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
and an important conservation area. The bustling seaside resorts, once
tiny isolated fishing communities, have maintained some of their character
and are still working ports with crab and fishing boats still putting
out to sea. The coastal and inland areas are ideal for walking, with
fresh green countryside in spring, colourful poppies dotted about in
summer, and the lovely russet trees in autumn. Towards the west end
of this coastline the villages of Titchwell, Thornham, Brancaster and
the Burnhams look out across wide windswept marshes towards the sea.
Further west still is Holme-next-the-Sea where the Peddars Way long
distance path meets the Norfolk coast Path. Further south the Peter
Scott Walk follows the old sea bank along the Wash from King's Lynn.
This historic port on the river Great Ouse is also the finish of the
Fen Rivers Way, a long distance path between Cambridge and King's Lynn
that traces the course of the rivers that drain slowly across the Fens
into the Wash.