This guided walking tour explores the Northern City Walls during which we will visit a variety of surprising sights in the North West area of Norwich - a rewarding circuit.
Led by Roger Smith, an experienced Norwich Tour guide
A circular tour starting from the centre of Anglia Square, NR3 1DZ.
A guided walking tour with Jonathan Hooton around some of Norwich’s many pubs, including those still operating, whilst looking at evidence for those no longer with us. It will include many facts and ale tales about these much loved buildings and their breweries. During the walk we will debunk the claim that Norwich had a pub for every day, a very inaccurate boast.
Jonathan Hooton is a City of Norwich Tour Guide, a former Head of Geography at Notre Dame High School and a regular feature in the Society's event programme.
The walk will start outside the Sir Garnet, 36 Market Place, NR1 1RD and will conclude at The Plough on St Benedict’s Street and take up to 2hrs.
Earsham Hall is a family home covering three generations. Parts date back to the 15th century with the Queen Ann block and facing bricks being added in the 1700s. Annabel Stretton-Derham will share the historical stories, architectural references and anecdotal evidence that show that the survival of such a building is a mixture of hard work, tenacity and luck!
The visit Includes tea & coffee on arrival & full Afternoon Tea.
The tour will start at the front of the main house and take 2 hrs. To include the ground floor of the Hall and a walk through the garden. A tour group parking sign at the top of the drive will provide directions. Earsham Hall, Bungay, NR25 2AN
A guided walking tour with Norwich Tour Guide Roger Smith, with enough interest along the way before a peep in the RC Cathedral then a different return over the bridge noting more gems.
A circular tour starting outside The Forum, Millennium Plain, NR2 1TF
A guided walking tour with Norwich Tour Guide Roger Smith, with enough interest along the way before a peep in the RC Cathedral then a different return over the bridge noting more gems.
A circular tour starting outside The Forum, Millennium Plain, NR2 1TF
This guided walking tour explores the Northern City Walls during which we will visit a variety of surprising sights in the North West area of Norwich - a rewarding circuit.
Led by Roger Smith, an experienced Norwich Tour guide
A circular tour starting from the centre of Anglia Square, NR3 1DZ.
The Great Hospital was founded in 1249 by Bishop Walter de Suffield. The site contains much of historic and architectural interest. One of the smallest monastic cloisters in England; a fine medieval refectory; St Helen’s House – with excellent examples of Georgian decorated ceilings; an 18th century swan pit, The Eagle Ward, Church and a large Victorian hall are some examples.
Tours take 1.5-2 hrs and will start by the by the flagpole in St Helen’s Square, just next to the church tower. There is a pedestrian gate that leads directly onto the square from Bishopgate, Norwich NR14EL
There is no parking on site, the nearest car park is by The Adam and Eve, Bishopgate. NR3 1RZ.
The tour involves steep, uneven steps and narrow corridors and is unsuitable for wheelchair users
A 2-hour guided walking tour with Paul Dickson celebrating CJ Sansom’s best-selling novel Tombland, featuring Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake’s visit to Norwich at the time of Kett’s Rebellion (1549).
The tour starts outside the Maids Head Hotel and includes Tombland, the ancient Anglo-Scandinavian Market Place, Augustine Steward’s House, Norwich Cathedral Close, Bishopgate (Holme Street in the novel) and the Great Hospital, Bishop’s Bridge, the site of Bishop’s Gate and Lollards Pit, followed by a climb up to Kett’s Heights, the remains of St Michael’s Chapel, with its fabulous view across the city.
The return journey follows the north side of the river with views of the medieval Cow Tower and surviving city walls, near the location of the Pockthorpe Gate, before crossing the river and finishing at the Adam and Eve pub, where Lord Sheffield was taken after he had been mortally wounded, and seeing the site of the Battle of Palace Plain.
We will then take a short stroll to The Red Lion on Bishopgate for drinks and grazing boards.
Paul Dickson has worked in the tourism industry in Norfolk for 37 years, initially for the National Trust and then as an independent PR practitioner. Eleven years ago he fulfilled a long held ambition by qualifying as an official City of Norwich tourist guide. Since then he has developed his own guided tours business in Norwich and has expanded into the Broads National Park and Cromer. Paul additionally works as an independent guide for the Maids Head Hotel in Norwich.
A guided walking tour with Jonathan Hooton around some of Norwich’s many pubs, including those still operating, whilst looking at evidence for those no longer with us. It will include many facts and ale tales about these much loved buildings and their breweries. During the walk we will debunk the claim that Norwich had a pub for every day, a very inaccurate boast.
Jonathan Hooton is a City of Norwich Tour Guide, a former Head of Geography at Notre Dame High School and a regular feature in the Society's event programme.
The walk will start outside the Sir Garnet, 36 Market Place, NR1 1RD and will conclude at The Plough on St Benedict’s Street and take up to 2hrs.
Norwich has always welcomed Strangers to its city but some have been more welcome than others. The Normans disrupted Anglo-Scandinavian life, breaking the 200-year link with Denmark and reconnecting with France and Europe.
Dominant new buildings were raised and the layout radically changed but the Normans brought order, recognition and prosperity.
This talk is part of the Norwich History Festival
Adrian O'Dell is the son of a Polish Air Force officer and a nurse from Lancashire and was educated at the City of Norwich School. After an international career in the oil industry, he 'retired’ to Norfolk and has devoted himself to the study of Norfolk and Norwich’s history and heritage. He is a freelance city tour guide and was also a trustee of the Norfolk & Norwich Heritage Trust (Dragon Hall) before it was passed on to the National Centre for Writing. He has completed post-graduate studies in Landscape History at UEA. He is Chair of the Norfolk Polish Heritage Group which researches and archives stories of Polish immigration into Norfolk since World War II and has dual British/Polish nationality. Adrian has taken an active interest in the present plight of Poland’s neighbour Ukraine.
