Good places to drive/visit in Norfolk?

Hi Nor-folk (geddit? Smile),. Dee and I are going to be taking one of our 5s to Norfolk for a couple of days next week, arriving Sunday afternoon, leaving Tuesday. We are staying in Pulham Market near Diss, and are looking for stuff to do and maybe some good touring roads. Ideas so far are “the coast” (anywhere in particular?), Norwich and the Broads, but neither of us really knows Norfolk so any suggestions would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance

Simon

Get on the coast road at Cromer and keep going until you get to Hunstanton, Along the way is the Muckleburgh collection (Tanks and other military vehicles) stop for lunch at Cookies Crab house in Wells next the sea, its just past the quay Then Holkham Hall country house type thing, norfolk lavender at Heacham I think, there is a glass place near King’s Lynn, steam railway at Sheringham.

 

Hope this helps

A few good ideas there. Thanks!

Simon

 Hi Simon and Dee, welcome to Norfolk - hope the sun shines for you. Smile

These are a couple of excellent runs we have reciently done - just a short hop from Diss to the start at Wymondham

Wymondham to Hunstanton

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Wymondham to Cromer

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Have fun and be sure to wave Waving

Hi Guys

Welcome to Norfolk!

Agree with what everybody has said so far.

I would probably drop in to Southwold, lots to see and do…

Adnams brewery and tour, the pier, great fish and chips along the harbour…

Much closer to Diss, but not strictly Norfolk, but we won’t tell Big Smile

Have fun.

Jamie

Thanks again!

 Hi Simon - Jamie’s suggestion of a run down thro Suffolk to Southwold and area is good - roads are fast and bendy and the plod hasn’t discovered them yet!!!  If you want a superb lunch/dinner on route you can’t do better than The Fox and Goose in Fressingfield - friendly service, great beer and good food.  Not the cheapest but go on spoil yourselves! A more basic but equally interesting is The Low House in Laxfield more like pub grub than The Fox and Goose but a great range of on tap ales.  Come on up and see how much better we do it than busy old Kent!!!

So, looks like Southwold is a definite (even if it is in Suffolk…). We had already found out about the Fox and Goose and have booked a table on one of the days :slight_smile:

Simon

Just got back from our mini trip. Sunday we went up to Pulham Market
via Ipsich, Felixstowe (old childhood holiday haunts), Lavenham. Monday
we went on back routes (some very narrow and muddy - car looked like a
tractor!) to Cromer, then along the coast to Wells, then back a different way. Today from Pulham Market via South Walsham to Reedham, on the chain ferry across then on to Southwold for a spot of lunch, then home via the A12. We adapted some of the suggested itineraries, so thanks again for the starter!

Dinner at the Fox and Goose in Fressingfield was very good. The next night at the White Hart in Roydon not so good… it was fine, but it looked like the chef was trying a bit too hard, putting loads of ingredients in when maybe fewer would have been enough.

We were a bit jarred off on MOnday. Dee likes Crab, so we went to Wells, then started looking ffor Cookie’s Crab place… only to find it was 11 miles back along the way we had come, in Salthouse. Got there to find that they were closed on that day only :frowning:

I’ve just hosed off the worst of the mud, which will do until the weekend… which is only three work days away!


Simon