North Norfolk - wide blue skies, narrow windingcountry lanes with delights round every bend. Hedgerows with tall Cow Parsley and, nearer the sea, green Alexanders dominant. It has a remoteness that adds to its charm. It is not somewhere you pass through en route. You enter North Norfolk only when it is your destination.
For the visitor who enters North Norfolk from the west and north, via King's Lynn, they can drive along the picturesque A149 coast road. They leave behind the Wash at Hustanton and encounter, one after another, the small villages so typical of the county, each with its own mediaeval flint church.
Travelling east from Holme-next-the-Sea as far as Cley-next-the-Sea, the sea-ward side to your left is an ecologically important salt marsh, smothered in Sea-lavender in high summer. From Weybourne to Cromer and beyond the cliff rises to provide a high, yet vunerable, defence from the sea.
Away from the coast North Norfolk's villages and hamlets produce endless surprises for visitors who like to explore the byways by car, or better still by bicycle. It's network of footpaths and quiet lanes give the walker an idyllic view of the county little changed over the centuries. North Norfolk Images presents an insider's guide to the hideaways of a much loved region of rural England. This is, perhaps, the one corner of the English countryside least affected by the ever growing 'urban sprawl' and the spreading tentacles of the motorway system. Maybe that will change in the future. So we record the way it is now - and in the recent past, with the images, photographs and memories of its inhabitants. An insider's guide to the hidden villages and hamlets of North Norfolk for the 21st century. The Insider
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