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- Running along a redundant railway that passes under the pretty iron aqueduct of a redundant canal, the Weavers Way at Briggate is a confluence of superannuated infrastructure.
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- I haven’t got space to mention our incredible wartime heritage, another aspect of the landscape that gives Norfolk a time capsule feeling. This strange bunker, still protected by its blast wall, was the generator house for a dummy airfield, now completely hidden in scrub.
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- Building a canal in a county with no stone and England’s lowest rainfall proved tricky. The aqueduct was constructed with style and ingenuity (but, you might think, worrying fragility) from iron girders and brick arches.
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- Absurd plannng rules for new campsites impose massive distances between even the tiniest tents, another nail in the coffin of simple backpacing with friends.