Norfolk Travel Guide

A Little bit of Norfolk History

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Councils of Norfolk

The public administration system in Norfolk works on the decentralization principle, which ensures that the decision making and executing processes take place at the lowest possible level and closest to the citizen.

The Norfolk public administration system has many common qualities with systems of other European counties but also has typical elements exclusive to the British nation, due to historical, social and economic reasons.

This Norfolk Travel Guide includes information on the councils of Norfolk. The councils of Norfolk today are mostly named after the historical and geographical regions of the county.

A Borough or Parish is the third level of administrative division.

Some of the towns in a Council can be centres of more than one Borough or Parish. The reason is that in several cases the town itself and its surroundings form separate entities of administrative division.

Councils of Norfolk

Name and Website of Council	Address	Parishes
Breckland District Council	Elizabeth House, Walpole Loke, Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 1EE	113
Broadland District Council	Thorpe Lodge, Yarmouth Road, Norwich, NR7 0DU	65
Great Yarmouth Borough Council	Town Hall, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2QF	21
King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council	King's Court, Chapel Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1EX	101
North Norfolk District Council	Holt Road, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9EN	122
Norwich City Council	City Hall, Norwich, NR2 1NH	None
South Norfolk District Council	South Norfolk House, Swan Lane, Long Stratton, Norwich, NR15 2XE	118

Index of Norfolk Travel Guides

Below is a list of the cities, towns, and villages that are presently covered by Norfolk Travel Guide. There are smaller places but it is impossible to cover all the locations in a large county like Norfolk. I would love some help to write this guide about Norfolk, so if you are interested please get in touch.

 

Name of Place	Information

Tourist Information in Norfolk

This Norfolk Travel Guide will include details of other Tourist organisations operating in Norfolk. They are welcome to contact me for details on how to display their information on Norfolk Travel Guide.

Visit Norfolk – Visit Norfolk is the main tourist organisation for Norfolk.

Transport in Norfolk

In order to explore and write articles for Norfolk Travel Guide I have found getting around Norfolk is easy as it has very good transport links both internationally and internally with some airlines now flying to Norwich Airport.

The railway network in Norfolk is run by Greater Anglia, Address: The Hub, Colchester North Railway Station, North Station Road, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1JS.

The road network has seen the most development over the past few years with updates on the main road into Norfolk the A11.

By far the most common mode of transport (after the car) is to travel by bus.

Here are some useful websites to help you find your way to Norfolk.

British Airways is well known for it’s service right around the world flying to many destinations.

Aurigny Air Services Ltd is an airline based in Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

Loganair Limited. is a Scottish airline based at Glasgow Airport that flies into Norwich Airport.

WizzAir is an east European low cost airline based in Hungary flying from Luton, East Midlands, Gatwick, Liverpool, Glasgow and now Norwich. You may find them cheaper by booking in advance.

Eurolines is an European international coach company.

Norfolk Travel Guide can do no better than send you to Seat61.com for international rail travel information. You will find very helpful details on the site.

Name	Type	Website
Norwich Airport	Airport	www.norwichairport.co.uk
Greater Anglia	Railways	www.greateranglia.co.uk

About Norfolk Travel Guide

Our travel guide is a travel exploration and educational project with the aim to provide a clear and easy to navigate site, showing useful travel and tourist information on various subjects about Norfolk including articles on the villages, towns and cities found throughout the county, accommodation, restaurants, out-door activities, the economy and great things to do while visiting Norfolk.

Each place listed has it’s own page that includes information on, accommodation, activities, attractions, geography, history, museums, places to eat, tourist information, travel information and a listing of websites associated with the location.

Norfolk has now become a major county in the modern world with a strong manufacturing and economic base exporting to many different countries. It’s position within the Europe grows ever stronger. It consistently strives to become a European tourist destination and has much to offer all different tastes and budgets.

We are constantly changing and updating the guide and we hope that you will enjoy looking through the many and varied pages about Norfolk. If you are from Norfolk or you have an association with the county we would be delighted to receive your own articles. Especially articles about where you live or about the local economy, travel, culture, geography, history or tourism, and don’t forget to include photographs of your village, town, or city.

We are always interested in finding other individuals who are willing to write articles about this county. Please also contact me if you are interested in advertising on David's Travel Guides.

David Smith – editor of Norfolk Travel Guide

About the Administrator

I am David Smith, born in Birmingham in 1959 and have lived in Northern Ireland, Kidderminster in Worcestershire, Lincoln, Wimbledon in south west London, Sittingbourne in Kent and I currently live in Eastleigh Hampshire. I have always loved to travel and have visited many European countries as well as many cities and towns here in the UK. I have never married so travel is something I am free to do when time and money allows, that is.

For most of my working life I was in administration, the civil service is where I started then onto HR and moving into pensions in 1985 until about 2005.

In 2005 I moved from Kent to Hampshire to look after my mother and in 2006 I started at Asda Supermarket Eastleigh, part time until December 2019 when due to me complaining publicly about the new contract they had forced on employees despite saying two years previously they would not do it, I resigned. Since joining the company in 2006 they have year on year taken away employee benefits demanding more and more for very little pay. I decided that I had put up with enough of being treated like a slave, so I resigned before they sacked me. This has been the worse employer I have ever worked for, in 40 years of employment. I had been diagnosed with a heart problem back in the summer of 2019 and in the December I was informed by my doctor I had cancer. Some of the managers and supervisors, especially those on the check-outs, where I worked, did not care in the slightest about me or my colleagues. I tell my story here so others can see what to expect if they work for this company.

I have been a Christian since the age of eleven and although I struggle sometimes with my faith, I can honestly say that my God is with me and I have discovered many times his care for me when traveling far from home. He has made a fantastic world for us to live in but it does seem that we want to do our best to destroy it. I am not into “just religion” , for me it is about the truth.

I started to get interested in tourist websites around 2004 and paid over £4000 for my first site, a huge mistake and a total rip off by the person who did it. So I began to teach myself how to build websites using CMS and HTML, Joomla and now WordPress. Although I am now reverting back to HTML static sites for their simplicity and speed. I administer two other sites currently, Friends of St Anne’s Hospital, about a charity run hospital in Tanzania.

Created in July 2009 originally under the name of WebPoland, and until October 2014 called Poland Explorer Travel and Tourist Guide, now goes under the name Poland Travel Guide and is administered by me. I have now been traveling to Central and Eastern Europe for over 13 years and try to visit it about two or three times a year to gather information and experience the culture of the different countries.

Advertising on Norfolk Travel Guide

You are welcome to advertise your products and services 365 days a year as Norfolk Travel Guide provides organisations and businesses with a quality and effective media platform.

With clear and easily accessed advertising by the viewer, the service is designed to be simple and informative.

I offer free advertising (but a donation towards the costs of running this site is always welcome).

For accommodation providers and restaurant owners please contact me for further details.

Advertising is only accepted at the discretion of the owner of this website.

An Ever Evolving Site

I am constantly changing and updating Norfolk Travel Guide and I hope that you will enjoy looking through the many and varied pages about Norfolk. If you are from Norfolk or you have an association with the county I would be delighted to receive your own articles about Norfolk. Especially articles about where you live or about the local economy, travel, culture, geography, history or tourism, and don’t forget to include photographs of your village, town, or city.

How to use Norfolk Travel Guide

As Explained elsewhere Norfolk Travel Guide is primarily a city, town and village guide of places within the county.

You may experience a problem with viewing Norfolk Travel Guide if you are using Internet Explorer version 8 on XP. In order to see the site correctly please update your browser.

There are a number of ways you can locate and find the place you are interested in but if you are just browsing, you may wish to find the region (province) that interests you and then click on the place you want to find out about.

All the places shown on this site have their own individual page.

I hope you enjoy visiting Norfolk Travel Guide and exploring the county of Norfolk with me.

David Smith

Brexit

Boarders and different countries came about because of pride and attempt to reach God by man's own hands (Tower of Babel) so the Almighty confused their language. God offers us forgiveness and reconciliation with Himself and then requires us to care for others and try to get on with others no matter where they originate from.

In other words, God did not originally design people to be separate from each other, this came about because of man's sin.

In God's new world to come, there will be no divisions among people and we will be united under Christ. No fighting, no borders, no wars, no discrimination. God's new world will be at peace and those who love God in this world will get on together without any problems.

This is why I like to travel and visit other countries and associate myself with different nationalities and cannot understand why a multicultural country like Britain wishes to leave Europe. Sure, not all is well with the EU but turning your back on 27 neighbours makes no sense to me.