Places to explore near Norwich

Norman keep on a mound above the city.

0.1 km N

Britain's largest protected wetland — a watery maze of rivers, fens and windmills.

0.4 km SE

Norman cathedral of cream Caen stone begun in 1096, with England's second-tallest spire and hundreds of carved medieval roof bosses.

0.5 km NE

Norfolk's longest narrow-gauge steam railway, tracking the Bure between Aylsham and Wroxham.

12.4 km NE

Woodland adventure park of treehouses, zip wires and boardwalks born of Tom Blofeld's children's books.

13.9 km NE

Market town below the twin-towered abbey, with a timbered octagonal market cross on stilts.

13.9 km SW · Norfolk

Quintessential Broads village of thatched cottages and waterside pubs strung along the north bank of the Bure.

14 km NE · Norfolk

Broads village whose church tower repays 89 steps with a panorama over reedbed, broad and marsh.

14 km NE · Norfolk

An 18th-century drainage mill built straight through a Benedictine gatehouse.

16.5 km NE

The second-largest of the Norfolk Broads, a wide shallow lake on the River Ant with a boardwalk trail and a long sailing tradition.

18.2 km NE

Symmetrical red-brick Jacobean mansion and yew hedges.

20.9 km N

Largest of the Norfolk Broads, a shallow reedy expanse and nature reserve noted for swallowtail butterflies and marsh birds.

22.6 km NE

Norfolk's chalk river, looping past watermills and grazing marsh through Fakenham and Norwich to meet the Yare.

0.4 km N · Norfolk

Blockhouse known as the Cow Tower

1 km NE

Restored Victorian town garden in a former chalk quarry, with a Gothic fountain and Italianate terrace.

1 km W

Laid out from 1819, reckoned Britain's first cemetery open to any faith, steep and half-wild.

1.2 km E

The southern Broads' highway, carrying Norwich's navigation seaward across the wide water of Breydon.

1.9 km SE · Norfolk

A country park in Norfolk.

1.9 km SE

Norwich's largest historic park of the 1920s, centred on a copper-domed rotunda.

2.8 km W