Norfolk Broads - Windmills and water

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Norfolk is a county that we have not explored to any great degree, and this was a very cursory look around the area we were staying in. We stayed in Clippesby, a small village within the Great Yarmouth Borough Council area, and located on the B1152 and surrounded by the Norfolk Broads. Besides water everywhere, the other thing you become aware of is the huge number of windmills / windpumps, which seem to be everywhere. They do make a great photo at times.


Here a couple of evening images of windmills beside the Broads. Very peaceful, and what a place to spend the night in your barge.



These windmills come in a range of shapes and sizes. This one reminding me of a skeleton windmill.



Then there are boats of all shapes and sizes. The Broads attracts more than 7 million visitors a year. All sorts of activities such as boating, cycling, canoeing, fishing, walking and wildlife-watching are ways visitors, and those living here, enjoy the area.



As for the wildlife it was on the water (above) or flitting about in hedgerows or the reeds. It is everywhere.


Swallowtail butterfly, Britain's largest and found in Norfolk.


Four Spot Chaser


....and suddenly, past a sand dune and then three naked people!! Well you have to get the photo! And as I said, all sorts of wildlife here!


Possible the greatest rood screen in East Anglia. It stretches right across the east end of the nave, being built out to form grand reredos` to the side chapels with parclose screens facing each other across the centre. As Pevsner points out, the painting seems typical of the 1470s and 1480s. The dado, the lower part of central screen, has twelve Apostle figures, six on each side.


The view from the top of Ranworth church Tower, looking toward Ranworth Broad. I will have to revisit this church now that I know how much I missed 9 years ago!


One of the beautiful visitor centers tastefully built to blend in with it`s surroundings.


Great to see a young photographer capturing images of the boats passing.


Norfolk is home to many round tower churches, more than in most parts of the country I believe. To quote Wikipedia `Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshire.` This one above was from Clippesby near to our holiday let.


This one was Mautby church taken in the evening light.




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