Norfolk Living Guide
An independent guide to forty-six Norfolk towns and villages.
From mid-Norfolk
A market town with three churches in one churchyard
A Georgian high street, a Co-op, a deli locals queue at, and the Marriott’s Way running through the old station. Reepham is the small town that keeps making people fall in love with Norfolk, and the one where remote working has quietly redrawn the buyer profile over the past five years.
From Holt
A walkable Georgian town that punches above its weight
Strong independent retail, Gresham’s School, and the gateway to the north Norfolk coast.
From Aylsham
The market square that quietly absorbed the commuter belt
Bure Valley Railway, a Saturday market that still works, and a Norwich commute that does not require the A47.
From Norwich
A complete city in miniature
Cathedral, university, a serious independent food scene, and the only direct line to London Liverpool Street.
If you want to know whether a Norfolk village is the real thing, go on a wet Tuesday in November and see what is open. Tom Fletcher
Norfolk on the map
All 46 towns and villages we cover. Click any marker for a one-line read on the place and a link to the full guide.
A theme this week
On the coast, before the season
Three north-coast guides for anyone weighing a move, while the carpark at Wells is still empty and the chip shop in Cromer has a queue of three rather than thirty.
Burnham Market
The honest version of Chelsea-on-Sea, on a windy Sunday.
Wells-next-the-Sea
A working harbour and a beach huts town in equal measure, and the season runs noticeably longer than the next-door places.
Cromer
In October the chip shop queue is down to three rather than thirty, and the pier looks better in the autumn light anyway.
The towns we cover
Forty-six places, four groups, every one with its own guide. Choose where you are or where you might be.
Cities and major towns
Market towns
Norwich suburbs
From the editor
Norfolk, written and edited in the county.
The Norfolk Living Guide is a small independent publication. Four contributors cover the county between them, each with a beat and a name on every piece. House prices come from HM Land Registry. School ratings come from the most recent Ofsted inspection. Broadband from Ofcom. Census from the ONS. Everything else comes from walking the towns we cover.