The Outlook for Tourism in North Norfolk
This is a 10-minute clip about the tourism industry in North Norfolk, United Kingdom, which was produced in 2008.
North Norfolk, Naturally: Family First
North Norfolk is the perfect place to go for family holidays and making memories. With family-friendly accommodation from woodland holiday parks to luxury coastal cottages, you’ll find your home away from home. Enjoy Blue Flag beaches, get closer to nature at parks and reserves, unearth fossils on the Deep History Coast and discover your own adventure at the many North Norfolk attractions. See for yourself why North Norfolk is the natural choice for a holiday. #NorthNorfolkNaturally.
Hickling, Norfolk Broads, UK
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Hickling is a very attractive village on the Norfolk Broads, next to Hickling Broad which is the largest broad in the system. It is located quite close to the sea at Sea Palling. The village covers a large area with a very low density as can be seen in this film.
The Doomsday Book refers to the Village as Hikelinga, and mentions a Church being here - noting that Godwin, a free man of Edric of Laxfield' s, held Hickling before 1066.
Hickling Priory, some distance from the Parish Church towards Sea Palling, was founded in 1185. The Priory was granted a Charter by King John, in 1204, to hold a weekly market. The market took place near St. Mary's Parish Church for some five hundred years. (The Priory ruins are on private land and are not open to the public.)
The church was started in 1204 and can be seen in this film although much was added later.
In 1287 a flood engulfed the village, and 180 people were drowned. The waters rose 30cm above the high altar of the priory church. Less than a century later, in 1349, the Black Death struck. At the Priory only two of the canons were left alive, and more than half the population of the village must have died.
During the Middle Ages peat was dug from the marshes for fuel; the diggings later flooding to form the Broads. Hickling Broad, the largest and wildest of the Norfolk Broads, has for a long time played an important part in the social and commercial life of the village.
Agriculture has always been a major feature of rural life in Hickling, and it continues to be so today, though many fewer people now work on the land than formerly.
Both Stubb Mill, an important drainage mill, and Hickling Mill, near the Methodist Chapel, date from the early nineteenth century. Hickling Mill was described in 1819 as a handsome new mill. It had eight floors and three pairs of French stones, being capable of producing 4320 stones of wheat in a week.
King George V and King George VI visited the Village and Whiteslea Lodge. One occasion in 1959 is well remembered when, because Whiteslea Lodge was flooded, the Duke of Edinburgh and Charles, Prince of Wales, stayed at The Pleasure Boat Inn. The Prince of Wales was in Hickling in 2001 to visit the Nature Reserve.
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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers.
Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
Ramsgate seaside, Kent, UK. TRAVEL VIDEO
Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of around 40,000. Ramsgate’s main attraction is its coastline, and its main industries are tourism and fishing.
How Hill Nature Reserve in Norfolk England
How Hill Nature Reserve is a great place to explore the Norfolk Broads. We took the Electric Eel boat tour on the Broads and then did the How Hill Nature Walk stopping at the How Hill Secret Gardens along the way. I enjoyed seeing the wildlife, especially some of the rare Norfolk Broads birds. It was a nice way to spend an afternoon on the Broads.
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WILD CAMPING ON THE NORFOLK BROADS | BURGH CASTLE ROMAN FORT
I was joined by a new subscriber named Hardy and James, another subscriber who joined me in Thetford recently. This was one of the few times I've visited Norfolk for a walk and a wild camp, as it is quite a long drive for me, but I'm hoping to rectify that and get up there more often in the future.
The walk was only 4 miles long around the village of Burgh Castle on a remote section of the Norfolk Broads. We followed a bracing section of the Angles Way beside the River Yare and Breydon Water, which the Roman Fort of Burgh Castle, Berney Windmill and one of Britain's remotest pubs, The Berney Arms overlooks.
After a thorough session in the Queens Head pub, we grabbed our bags and headed off up the footpath to a quiet section on the footpath beside the water to set up camp just in time to catch an amazing sunset! The sunrise the following morning wasn't so great.
Great walk, lots of history, good camp (despite the weather) and met up with two top blokes! Cheers James and Hardy for joining me, looking forward to more camps together in the near future!
Norfolk Broads - To Plan Or Not To Plan
When you book your holiday do you like to plan an itinerary or just go with the flow?
I like to plan a basic itinerary before we go. This short video shows for one how mad I am and for two how I plan our trip.
The two sites I use the most are...
for tides and
for river distances.
Ben Fogle's Norfolk outdoor adventure
Adventurer Ben Fogle has rowed the Atlantic and dragged a sledge across Antarctica, but now he's come to Norfolk to try cycling at Holkham, walking and golfing on the north Norfolk coast, watersports on the Norfolk Broads and, at Hilltop Outdoor Adventure, the 10 metre drop!