An attractive ancient port after which the coastal spit is named. Now a pretty village, it is busy with yachts and other pleasure craft which can make the passage up the narrow channel from the sea. Boat trips run from the quay to see the seal colony on Blakeney Point.

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Jacobean red brick mansion with fine tapestries and furniture on display. The grounds include a garden, orangery, parkland and lake.

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Eleven acres of beautiful trees, shrubs & flowers and over fifty steam engines, some of which run on the three narrow gauge lines along five miles of track through the woodlands and gardens and beside the lake. All this and the Victorian Gallopers (steam merry go round) too.

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A tiny walled medieval town sitting between a great castle and a rich priory. The castle began as a Norman manor house and was rebuilt as a fortress in the 12c, complete with the massive earthworks which are much in evidence today. The priory was founded about 1090 and is now largely in ruin; the lower section of the magnificent west front however is still largely intact.

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An Iceni tribal village reconstruction believed to be on an original site.

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Remarkable Neolithic flint mines over four thousand years old. First excavated in the 1870s, there are over 300 pits & shafts, one of which is open to the public.

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A small, attractive country town just inland from the coast in undulating countryside. A regular finalist in the Britain in Bloom, the red brick & flint faced Georgian buildings look a picture when festooned with hanging baskets.

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Runs between Holt and the seaside resort of Sheringham. Bikes can be carried on the trains so that you can continue cycling without having to return to Holt.

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(approx. 5 miles east of Diss) Step back into the 1 940s when you visit the museum at this WW2 USAAF base. Housed in a restored control tower, there is much to see besides the military memorabilia.

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A major pilgrimage centre from the late 1 lc to the present day. The village still has the look of a medieval market town.

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A town of narrow streets and flint cottages with a lovely sandy beach one mile north (linked by a narrow gauge railway). Wells is a small port used by coasters as well as local shrimp and whelk boats. Take the light railway from Walsingham as a pleasant alternative to cycling to Wells.

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Pronounced 'Win-dum, this is a pleasant market town with much character. The octagonal timber framed market cross was built in 1618 after its predecessor was destroyed by fire and sits at one corner of the Market Place. The great abbey church of Wymondham Abbey, founded in 1107, is on the western edge of town.

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