Expect bucolic views across meadows and, for those who remember ‘Black Beauty’, the writer Anna Sewell lived in Buxton. Both the Buxton and Oxnead mills are in the Domesday Book, witness to a once busy waterway. As you reach Brampton, the ‘Bramtuna’ village sign is a clue to the Roman settlement which produced vast quantities […]
Start this lovely walk by exploring the wonderful meadow between Saxlingham Nethergate and Saxlingham Green, a local community project, which is generating a wildflower grassland habitat alongside a community orchard.Then follow tree-lined paths and quiet tracks until you come across the evocative ruins of St Mary’s Church, sitting serenely within a wood. It’s a reminder […]
Discover the charm of the Norfolk countryside around Salhouse, following a walk that takes you out of the village along quiet lanes and scenic footpaths, through open fields, past an ancient church and a willow-fringed pond. It’s fitting that the name Salhouse comes frommSallows, a name for a type of willow tree, in an area […]
Roman town remains and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery means this walk offers an evocative reminder of how people have lived here for thousands of years. You can clearly see the outlines of what was Venta Icenorium, the largest Roman town in East Anglia, established in the 1st century boasting a temple, a forum, town hall and […]
This sunny market town, with its winding high street and marina, is surrounded by rolling countryside, dipping gently towards the River Chet, South Norfolk’s gateway to the Broads. Loddon is thought to be Celtic for muddy river and was first mentioned in Aelfric Modercope’s will in the 1040s, before the Norman Conquest. The imposing Holy […]
Fuel up at the café to prepare for a wonderful walk with two very different habitats. In the fen during summer, look out forragged robin, quaking grass, yellow rattle and the soft light of glow-worms. The wooden trail that weaves through the reserve mirrors centuries-old pathways. Flint tools have been found dating back 10,000 years […]