Waterside, Barnes Brinkcraft, Wroxham - Norfolk Broads accommodation
A short tour of the Waterside apartment, part of The Boathouse accommodation provided by Barnes Brinkcraft in Wroxham on the Norfolk Broads. The apartment consists of 2 twin and 2 double en-suite bedrooms downstairs and living/dining area, kitchen, bathroom and balcony upstairs. A free day boat is also included except in the summer months. For more on this (with more to come) and other holiday-related stuff, visit diaryofaholidayobsessive.blogspot.co.uk.
Norfolk broads experiences as seen by Barnes Brinkcraft customers.
Hear what our customers think about their Norfolk Broads holidays - in their own words. People from all walks of life fall in love with the Norfolk Broads. Barnes Brinkcraft makes it easy for customers to enjoy the Broads in the way that suits them best. They can hire a boat for as long as they wish and sleep on board. Or they can stay in a holiday home and use a day boat for trips bird watching or visiting a pub.
The Broads is a vast waterway in a national park in Norfolk and Suffolk, between the City of Norwich and the East Coast. There is miles of waterways interlocking larger broads (expanses of water) providing a haven for wildlife. Taking control of your boat and planning your route adds excitement to your holiday as you end up sleeping in different surroundings each night. You really get away from the world.
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Barnes Brinkcraft Camera - Wroxham
This live camera view from Barnes Brinkcraft boatyard in Wroxham Norfolk.
Wroxham - Barnes Brinkcraft - Norfolk Live
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Hotel Wroxham
The Hotel Wroxham is uniquely positioned overlooking the River Bure on the Norfolk Broads and has the added advantage of being just eight miles from the historic city of Norwich and a similar distance from the wild and beautiful North Norfolk coast.
Barnes Brinkcraft described by Daniel Thwaites being interviewed
Daniel Thwaites describes the origin of the company on the Norfolk broads. The name Barnes Brinkcraft comes from two of the businesses that were purchased to form what it is today.
The business now offers several different sized cruisers which can be hired out and slept on as well as day boats which can be hired by the hour. He describes how even on the busiest weekends of the year it is possible to take a boat into the Broads and never see another boat. The wildlife is amazing with kingfishers and otters amongst many other species all around you.
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Wroxham Broads, Norfolk England
Wroxham Broads, Norfolk England
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A Norfolk Broads 1 Day Boat Trip - Mini-documentary
What can you see and do in 1 day boating on the Norfolk Broads? This new mini-documentary takes us on a tour from Wroxham - and we take a look at the amazing variety of boats on the water too!
From the narration:
We decided to celebrate summer on the Broads in Norfolk with a day-long boat hire from Wroxham.
In this film I’ll show you how far we got and what we saw.
We hired our boat from Broads Tours next to the hump-back road bridge.
We had a small diesel-powered boat with space for 8 people.
These boats are easy to operate even if there are only 2 of you!
Larger Day Cruisers are also available.
We were on our way very quickly, with 8 hours to explore.
This gave us plenty of time to travel both upstream and downstream.
We travelled upsteam towards Coltishall and downstream to Horning on the River Bure. We also travelled up the River Ant to Ludham Bridge
You’re likely to see a huge variety of boats as you travel around the Broads in Norfolk.
Small Day Boats, diesel or electric, can be hired for just a couple of hours but there’s no toilet.
Larger Day Cruisers have cooking facilities and a loo - useful if you can’t find a mooring!
Larger cruisers are perfect for a family holiday on the Broads.
Boats with forward steering tend to be on one level and are generally low enough to pass through all of the bridges on the broads.
Other boats have a raised central steering position which is great for visibility.
But the higher the boat, the less likely it is to fit under all of the bridges, for example, the hump-back bridge at Wroxham.
Dual steering cruisers have both inside and outside steering positions, the latter usually reached by a set of steps to the upper deck.
And cruisers with an aft cockpit have a canopy which you can lower in good weather.
Most modern cruisers have fibreglass hulls but various types of wooden boats are still plentiful on the Broads, from motor cruisers to sailing boats.
The Norfolk wherry is a type of sailing boat used on The Broads.
In the past they carried small perishable cargoes and passengers.
They feature a distinctive gaff rig with a single, high-peaked sail and the mast stepped well forward.
Other types include this small canal narrowboat and small Edwardian-style launches.
Some of these launches are privately owned but the Liana is used by the Broads Authority for tours carrying up to 12 people along the upper reaches of the River Bure between Wroxham and Coltishall.
There are also a number of larger passenger boats offering regular trips downstream on the Broads along with refreshments and commentary.
At the other end of the scale, small open boats and kayaks are popular ways for smaller groups to explore the waterways along with canoes.
We saw a lot of groups of people canoeing on our day out.
There are plenty of places on the Broads offering canoe hire, including Wroxham, which was the base for our day out.
Stand Up Paddleboarding is also becoming popular - but be prepared to get wet!
Other folks head out in small boats to go fishing and a number of Broads Authority launches patrol the waterways making sure that people navigate properly and obey the speed limits.
Places to see in ( Wroxham - UK )
Places to see in ( Wroxham - UK )
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres. The village is situated within the Norfolk Broads on the south side of a loop in the middle reaches of the River Bure. It lies in an elevated position above the Bure, between Belaugh Broad to the west and Wroxham Broad to the east or south east. Wroxham is some eight miles north-east of Norwich, to which it is linked by the A1151 road.
The village and broad lie in an area of fairly intensive agriculture, with areas of wet woodland adjoining the broad and river. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland although the river, broad and their immediate environs fall within the executive area of the Broads Authority. On the northern side of the Bure is the village of Hoveton, often confused with Wroxham.
Wroxham Bridge was rebuilt in brick and stone in 1619 replacing a bridge built in 1576, which itself replaced an earlier, probably wooden, structure. It is considered to be the second most difficult on the Broads to navigate (after Potter Heigham) and a pilot station sits on the Hoveton side of the river to assist boaters for a fee: £6 per boat.
Wroxham Broad lies about one mile downstream from Wroxham Bridge. The broad has an area of 34.4 hectares and a mean depth of 1.3 metres. It lies to the west of the Bure, with two navigable openings between river and broad. The broad is popular for sailing and is the home of the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club. It is also an important habitat for broadland flora and fauna. Between 2000 and 2005 the island between the two channels linking Wroxham Broad to the Bure underwent restoration to stop erosion and improve the island's ecology, which had become degraded. The project was a joint initiative involving the Broads Authority, Norfolk Broads Yacht Club and the local landowner, Trafford Estates. Scrub was cleared and a stretch of piling installed, allowing sedge, reed and rush to grow back. By 2005 it was reported that more birds, including kingfishers, were nesting on the island and the rare Cetti's warbler was often spotted. Greater numbers of ducks including pochard and tufted ducks now wintered nearby and there was a greater profusion of wild flowers and marsh flora including orchids. During the course of the work, in 2004, volunteers came across an unexploded Second World War hand grenade in the dredgings, which had to be exploded by an army bomb disposal team.
Wroxham is often called the Capital of the Broads, an accolade that may with some merit be challenged by Hoveton, where the majority of local businesses and boatyards are situated, the first centre on the Broads for boating holidays and excursions from the late nineteenth century when expansion of the rail network had made access to the area easier. The East Norfolk Railway arrived in Wroxham and Hoveton between 1874 and 1876 and John Loynes started the first boat hire firm on the Broads at Wroxham where he moved the business he had started in Norwich in 1878.
Both Wroxham and Hoveton have several boat building and pleasure craft hire yards. Other local industries include the canning of soft fruits. Wroxham village had at one time – for much of the 20th century – its own public house (The Castle, in Norwich Road), four village shops (one in Castle Street and three in Norwich Road) and a primary school (in Church Lane), all now closed. A public library was built near Bridge Broad, a small broad near Wroxham Bridge, in the 1960s.
Barton House Railway is a miniature steam-driven railway (now two railways) large enough for passengers, with full size signal box and signals and a museum of railway artefacts, open to the public since 1963 in a large riverside garden in Hartwell Road. It is based on the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway, which operated some of the train services in East Anglia before British railway nationalisation in 1947. The original railway runs on a 3.5 gauge track with a miniature steam locomotive. In 1979, work started on the 7.25 gauge 'Riverside' railway which ran initially with an electric engine and later with a steam locomotive. Barton House Railway is run by volunteers and makes donations from proceeds to local charities.
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Wherries On Wroxham Broad.
Wherries sailing on Wroxham Broad June 2nd 2012. Celebrating the centenary of the Ella the last trading wherry built in 1912.
The Norfolk Broads around Horning & Wroxham, May 2016.
Video shot during a holiday in May 2016, concentrating on the human activity on the River Bure around Horning and Wroxham in Norfolk. (For the bird-life activity see my video
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Hotel Wroxham on the Broads
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