North Norfolk

[Tevot]

Yes indeed...
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... and one thing I've always wanted to (and shall) do is visit the key locations from one of my favourite films of all time, Losey's version of L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, all around Norwich, as very helpfully set out and depicted here:

http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/g/GoBetween.html#.VTAjtab-h-Q

Thanks Cali for the Losey reminder ... I'll have to hunt that film down - and thanks too to Vinteuil for this thread and to the others for your fantastic holiday suggestions and recommendations.

I'm sure that it is only a matter of time until Norwich opens an Alan Partridge Theme Park

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[MrGongGong]

Please will someone tell me what this is. Just off the mudflats near Gedney Drove End (which is just about the end of the world)

I think it's was an experimental reservoir

1972: a feasibility study commissioned by the Government to build a barrage across half of The Wash to capture the freshwater from the four main rivers, to improve navigation through sea locks, to provide recreational facilities and an area of land for a power station, etc. was undertaken. This led to the circular trial bank/bund being built to the east of Sutton Bridge and the Nene. The purpose of which was to act as reservoirs but the report concluded it would be too costly. 1972: a feasibility study commissioned by the Government to build a barrage across half of The Wash to capture the freshwater from the four main rivers, to improve navigation through sea locks, to provide recreational facilities and an area of land for a power station, etc. was undertaken. This led to the circular trial bank/bund being built to the east of Sutton Bridge and the Nene. The purpose of which was to act as reservoirs but the report concluded it would be too costly.

(though it's not in Norfolk)

[Nick Armstrong]

Please will someone tell me what this is. Just off the mudflats near Gedney Drove End (which is just about the end of the world)

Some discussion and links to a BBC local news programme here

[EdgeleyRob]

Please will someone tell me what this is. Just off the mudflats near Gedney Drove End (which is just about the end of the world)

Part of an abandoned experimental flood defence system from the 70's I seem to remember.

[ardcarp]

Does Castle Rising count as North Norfolk? As a teenager, I spent a fortnight at a vast, ramshackle house there with my sister and her friend who, aged 24, had seven children all under seven! It was a sort of back-to-nature thing...part paradise, part chaos. Of CR itself I remember the castle and the church which had a Saxon-ish look. Also some nearby US airbases.

[Rolmill]

I second the seals at Blakeney. They take you out there on a boat.

Thirded - but wrap up very warm!

[Flay]

Thanks. Interesting.

I can't say the same for Gedney Drove End. Nor does Cameron Self, a local poet

Gedney Drove End

Through Swineshead and Sutterton and Gedney
I drove us down the old river-bed road
That was a part of leaving Norfolk: the theory

Of desolation from the road-edge—how the wind
Stripped their senses into dullness, or a test
Of who made who, land or man, and found

Some harsh male pact that drove the sea out,
But fades—a spiritual will-o’-the-wisp
And the misty kids gone crazy with incest

Or sucking poppy seeds: their mothers picking
Stones and weeds, cheeks red-veined early;
All indistinct now from hearsay or reading—

A view of communities on the outside only
That overlooked the canning factory and new
Houses sustained by love and money:

And for me a string of places I went through
To get elsewhere, but still surprised
By this wasteland and all the crops it grew.

[Flay]

Are we sure it wasn't a buried UFO?

[AjAjAjH]

If any threaders attended the City of Norwich School 1956-1961 or sang 'On the Ball city' in the Barclay Stand at the HALLOWED TURF that is CARROW ROAD:- Hello from me!!!

If you want a magnificent view of the whole of the main areas and sights of Norwich visit St. James' Hill on Britannia Road opposite Norwich Prison (formerly Britannia Barracks)

[mercia]

sihts of Norwich

probably a typo

[Nick Armstrong]

probably a typo

[Mary Chambers]

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Does Castle Rising count as North Norfolk?

Yes, I think so. It has various interesting historical connections. Queen Isabella, widow of Edward II, lived there for a time.

Has anyone mentioned Castle Acre? It has an atmospheric ruined priory.

Bressingham Gardens, on the other hand, are definitely not in North Norfolk. More or less Diss, almost in Suffolk. (North Folk, South Folk and all that.)

[AjAjAjH]

Typo corrected!!!!

[MrGongGong]

typo corrected!!!!

nfn ?

[Anna]

I wonder if vinteuil has already departed and this is too late? Many years ago we used to go to N. Norfolk to see a very ancient quasi-auntie (the sort that's not related to yourself but somehow one acquires them via extended family marriages) She lived in a lovely brick and flint cottage in South Creake (nothing much there but there's a priory at North Creake which has the distinction of not being ruined by Reformation but the plague) Lots and lots of things to see and do, I like Wells-next-the-Sea and, although it's got the thumbs down upthread, Cromer. Burnham Norton is a round tower church and worth a visit, masses of other interesting churches, (loads of info on net) Walsingham & Castle Rising of course already mentioned. Lots of birding, walking. If you're near Stiffkey go and put some flowers on the grave of the only unfrocked CoE Vicar to get eaten by a lion at Skegness!

I'd recommend Norfolk anytime for a most interesting holiday. Hopefully vints will report back on his return.