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Norwich
City and non-metropolitan district in Norfolk, England

Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district in Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town.

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It lies by the River Wensum, about 100 mi (160 km) north-east of London, 40 mi (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 mi (105 km) east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider Norwich built-up area had a population of 213,166 at the 2011 United Kingdom census.

Get in

Getting to Norwich

Norwich is a fairly isolated city. Even journeys from nearby places, such as Cambridge, Ipswich and King's Lynn, will take around an hour in the car. You can get to Norwich using several major routes. These include: from London via M11, Cambridge via A14, Newmarket and Thetford; from Ipswich via A14, Diss and Cromer; from Lowestoft; from Leicester, The North via A1(M), Peterborough, King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth.

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    St Andrews

    Duke Street, NR3 3AJ.

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    Chantry Place

    There are several Park and Ride sites, with buses running between edge-of-town car parks and the city centre.

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    Airport Park and Ride

    Buck Courtney Crescent, Norwich, NR6 6JT (Off A140 Holt Road from Cromer).

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    Harford Park and Ride

    Routes PR2 and PR3 for City College, Norwich bus station, Castle Meadow, Prince of Wales Road and the railway station.

See

Worth seeing

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    Norwich Cathedral
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    Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery

    Norwich castle is one of the dominant features of the city centre.

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    Dragon Hall

    Restored trading hall from medieval era, unique in England.

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    The Forum
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    Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

    Located on the campus of the University of East Anglia (UEA) - well worth the visit, lovely building and an underground section with changing exhibitions in art, ceramics, textiles...

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    Cow Tower

    Cotman Fields, off Bishopgate, Norwich, NR1 4AA.

Do

Things to do

Norfolk and Norwich Festival is held in May in the city and beyond. Football: Norwich City FC were relegated in 2022 and now play football in the Championship, the game's second tier. "The Canaries" are a yo-yo team between the two upper tiers; their home ground (capacity 27,000) is Carrow Road NR1 1JE, half a mile south of the railway station.

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    Crystal Seas
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    SportsPark
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    The Halls
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    Eaton Golf Club

    Newmarket Road, Norwich, NR4 6SF,.

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    Norwich Arts Centre

    Music and comedy venue housed in a 15th century, former church.

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    Norwich Theatre Royal

    Theatre St, NR2 1RL, info@theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

Norwich has a vast array of small and independent restaurants catering to most tastes and budgets, as well as hosting most of the major chains. Many of the best restaurants can be found clustered around the Norwich Lanes, the loosely-defined area roughly bounded by and including St Benedicts Street, as well as the equally olden Triangle area between Colman Road, Newmarket Road and Earlham Road. In the

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    Norwich Market are a lot
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    Churros For The People

    Stall 25, Norwich Market, Gentlemen's Walk.

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    Fresh

    32 Market Pl.

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    The Waffle House

    A daytime and late-opening classy waffle emporium, offering a variety of sweet and savoury Belgian waffles.

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    Loving Hut

    28 Cattle Market St.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.