Places to visit

Historic Sites

• Baconsthorpe Castle
• Binham Priory, Fakenham
• Burgh Castle, South Creake
• Castle Acre Priory, Swaffham
• Castle Rising Castle, Swaffham
• Grimes Graves, Brandon
• Letheringsett Watermill
• North Elmham Chapel
• Norwich Cathedral
• Walsingham Abbey
• Walsingham Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady

Market Towns and Market Days

• Aylsham – Monday and Friday
• Attleborough – Thursday
• Dereham – Tuesday and Friday
• Diss – Friday
• Downham Market – Saturday
• Holt
• Fakenham – Thursday
• Kings Lynn – Tuesday, Friday and Saturday
• North Walsham – Thursday
• Reepham – Wednesday
• Swaffham – Saturday
• Wymondham – Friday

Museums

• Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life
• Museum of Norwich at The Bridewell
• City of Norwich Aviation Museum
• Cromer Museum
• Diss Museum
• Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth
• Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History
• Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, West Walton
• Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, Dereham
• The Henry Blogg Museum
• Lynn Museum, King’s Lynn
• Norfolk Record Office, Norwich
• Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
• RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, RAF Neatishead, Horning
• Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norwich
• Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
• Seething Restored WW2 Control Tower, Mudham
• The Shell Museum, Glandford
• Stranger’s Hall Museum, Norwich
• Strumpshaw Old Hall Steam Museum, Norwich
• Swaffham Museum
• The Mo, Sheringham Museum
• The Muckleburgh Collection, Weybourne
• The Museum of the Broads, Stalham
• Thursford Collection
• Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth
• The Tolhouse Gaol, Great Yarmouth
• True’s Yard Fisherfolk Museum, King’s Lynn
• Waxham Great Barn
• Wymondham Heritage Museum
• 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Diss

Natural Norfolk and Walks

• Holkham National Nature Reserve
• Nature Reserve at the Waterside, Great Yarmouth
• Norfolk Coastal Path – walking
• Peddars Way – walking and cycling
• Blakeney Point Seal Trips
• Scolt Head Island National Nature Reserve
• Sculthorpe Community Nature Reserve, Fakenham
• Wheatfen Nature Reserve, Surlingham
• Weavers Way – walking
• Whitlingham Country Park, Norwich

Norfolk Beaches and Coastal Towns

…from north to south following the Coasthopper Bus Route

• Heacham – Norfolk Lavender
• Hunstanton – sand beach, seal trips, beach huts, water sports (kite surfing), amusements, fish and chips
• Old Hunstanton
• Holme next the Sea – sand beach, bird watching
• Thornham – sand beach
• Titchwell – bird watching
• Brancaster
• Brancaster Staithe – sand beach, sailing, water sports, shell fish, birth place of Nelson
• Burnham Deepdale
• Burnham Market
• Burnham Ovary Staithe – ferries to Scolt Head Island National Nature Reserve
• Holkham – 1 mile sand beach, naturist area, country house
• Wells next the Sea – harbour, sailing, crabbing, beach huts, water sports, steam railway, crafts, amusements, fish and chips
• Stiffkey – mud flats, creaks, samphire
• Morston – marsh, seal trips,
• Blakeney – harbour, sailing, canoeing, seal and bird watching trips, crafts, Blakeney Point (seals and birdwatching)
• Cley next the Sea – stone beach, sea fishing, bird watching
• Salthouse – marshes, sea food
• Weybourne – stone beach, sea fishing, dangerous swimming
• Sheringham – sand beach, beach huts, promenade, sea fishing, bike hire, steam railway, amusements, fish and chips
• West Runton – sand beach
• East Runton – sand beach, surfing
• Cromer – sand beach, pier, promenade, sea fishing, water sports, beach huts, amusements, fish and chips

Railways

• Mid Norfolk Railway – Dereham to Wymondham
• Broadland Boat Train at Bure Valley Railway – Aylsham to Wroxham
• Wells to Walsingham Light Railway
• Bressingham Steam and Gardens, Diss
• The Poppy Line (North Norfolk Railway) – Sheringham to Holt
• Barton House Railway – miniature railway, Wroxham

Theatres

• Auden Theatre, Holt
• Gorleston Pavilion
• Norwich Arts Centre
• Norwich Playhouse
• Norwich Puppet Theatre
• Norwich Theatre Royal
• Pavilion Theatre on Cromer Pier
• Princess Theatre, Hunstanton
• Sewell Barn Theatre, Norwich
• Sheringham Little Theatre
• Westacre Theatre, Swaffham