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- Starting as we mean to go on – in a tea room.
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- Beach huts at Cromer
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- Cromer clifftop, by Joseph Pennell.
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- Cromer Lupins
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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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- The derelict lock
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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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- Interesting Crops of Norfolk; Barley.
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- Interesting Crops of Norfolk: Maize
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- Interesting Crops of Norfolk: Sugar Beet (with decorative wild flowers)
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- Interesting Crops of Norfolk: Wheat
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- Huge and beautiful windows flood the east end with light.
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- Interesting Crops of Norfolk: Oilseed Rape
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- I told you the Bure got bigger. The trail crosses it again north of Aylsham.
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- The Bure, one of Norfolk’s major rivers. It does get bigger!
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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.
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- The swinging marina lifestyle
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- Sunset over Stalham allotments. Fear not, it gets more scenic tomorrow…
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- A few straggling orchids on Thwaite Common
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- This is directly on the trail at Erpingham, althugh I’ve no idea what it’s like.
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- Breydon Water. It’s Suffolk over there, oo-er..
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- Quintessential Broadland at Cliipesby
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- Halvergate Marshes – can be a bit bleak!
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- Potter Heigham
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- Tunstall Church
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- Sutton Mill
