Noseying Round Norf’ Norfolk
Norfolk — the land of vast beaches and big skies
Norfolk is the coastal county in East Anglia that juts into the North Sea. It has a reputation for being flat (and compared with other parts of the UK, it is), although it does have a few ups and downs.
Whenever you walk around here, there are reminders of the region’s most devastating flood — 31st January 1953 — when the combination of a high spring tide and a European windstorm (affecting The Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as Scotland and the east coast of England) caused the sea to overwhelm the coastal flood defences.
The sea swamped land up to 5.6 metres above sea level. Over 300 people died in England, as more than 250 square miles of land disappeared under seawater, 24,000 properties were damaged and over 30,000 people had to be evacuated.
While no storms have created a similar disaster, flooding is a regular occurrence here — something that rising sea levels will only exacerbate.
North Norfolk’s openness and relative flatness, mean that it’s a marvelous place to experience space and freedom. Here, the beaches are vast (the tide goes…
