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Heritage railway
Bure Valley Railway
Narrow-gauge steam railway from Wroxham to Aylsham, laid on a former standard-gauge trackbed beside a footpath.
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Wroxham, Hoveton & the northern Broads: things to do
Places worth your time in Wroxham, Hoveton & the northern Broads
Top places
Things to do in Wroxham, Hoveton & the northern Broads
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Country house and gardens
Hoveton Hall
Regency-style country house built in 1809-1812 in the parish of Hoveton, with gardens.
Adventure park
BeWILDerwood
Woodland adventure park at Horning with treehouses, rope bridges, slides, zip wires and areas for under-fives.
Broad
Wroxham Broad
Open water of about 34 hectares beside the River Bure, formed, like the other broads, by flooded medieval peat diggings.
Broad
Salhouse Broad
Broad on the River Bure downstream of Wroxham, on the edge of Salhouse parish.
Broad
Hoveton Great Broad
Broad on the River Bure between Wroxham Broad and Salhouse Broad, within the Bure Marshes reserve.
Nature reserve
Ranworth Broad
Nature reserve of 136 hectares run by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, part of the Bure Marshes National Nature Reserve.
Nature reserve
Cockshoot Broad
Small Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve near Woodbastwick, part of the Bure Marshes National Nature Reserve.
Church
St Helen's Church, Ranworth
Medieval church called the 'Cathedral of the Broads', known for its painted rood screen and the Ranworth Antiphoner.
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Nature reserve
Bure Marshes National Nature Reserve
Reserve created in 1958 covering about 450 hectares of wetland in the floodplain of the River Bure.
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Museum
RAF Air Defence Radar Museum
Museum on the site of the former radar and control base RAF Neatishead, near Horning.
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Miniature railway
Barton House Railway
Miniature railway in a Wroxham garden, open on set days in the season; check its website before you go.
River
River Bure
Chalk river that flows through Wroxham and Horning; Coltishall Bridge is now the head of navigation.
Norfolk and the Broads
More areas to explore
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Cromer & Sheringham
Victorian seaside towns with a pier, crab boats, heritage steam trains and the highest hill in Norfolk
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15 sights · 19 places to eat
Wells, Holkham & Blakeney
Salt marsh, dunes and seals between a harbour town, a Palladian house and flint villages
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13 sights · 23 places to eat
King's Lynn & Sandringham
A medieval port on the Great Ouse, a Norman castle and the royal Sandringham estate
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- Wroxham, Hoveton & the northern Broads (area photo): Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bure Valley Railway: Northmetpit (talk) 14:56, 12 January 2008 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hoveton Hall: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Wroxham Broad: Stavros1 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Salhouse Broad: SiJa2007 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Hoveton Great Broad: Broadsman101, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ranworth Broad: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cockshoot Broad: The original uploader was Flaxton at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Barton House Railway: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- River Bure: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cromer & Sheringham: Scribwik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wells, Holkham & Blakeney: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- King's Lynn & Sandringham: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Norwich: Sumit Surai, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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