 Norfolk Holiday Cottages
Discover Norfolk and find your perfect holiday accommodation...
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Featured Properties
 Malthouse Farm Barns, West Beckham (very close to Sheringham and Holt) have just become available for 2010. Two luxurious barns are available, each with 3 bedrooms and sleeping 8. Spacious, secluded and sophisticated, each barn is perfect for a peaceful retreat. Guests have free use of Pinewood Leisure (less than 5 minutes away), including swimming pool, spa and sauna. The barns are located only minutes away from the popular Sheringham Park (National Trust). Visit malthousefarmbarns.co.uk for more information.
 The Saltings, Blakeney - exactly the cottage you always hope to find, located close to Blakeney Quay, on the beautiful north Norfolk coastline - all that you would hope to find in a rental cottage holiday by the sea. This Grade II listed period flint fisherman’s cottage sleeps 6 in one double bedroom and two twin bedrooms. It features an open fire and you can even glimpse the sea from the attic bedroom. With a brand new range cooker and all the latest cookery gear, the cottage is furnished with charm and care - and very welcoming, whatever the season. Visit thesalting.co.uk for more information.
 The Green Pavilion is a really unusual, compact and eco-friendly holiday home, providing comfortable self-catering accommodation for up to 6 people near the North Norfolk coast. Using a traditional form of structure, a contemporary building has been created making the most of its surroundings. With floor to ceiling windows in all rooms, one has the sense of actually sitting in the meadow. Inside, the oak frame is left exposed up into the roof, giving the pavilion a light and spacious feel. French windows open onto the surrounding meadow. On the Weavers Way and ideal for nature lovers. Visit thegreenpavilion.co.uk for more information.
Enjoy Norfolk!
Norfolk has always been a popular holiday destination. Famed for it's landscape, wildlife and diverse coastline, Norfolk offers peace and solitude for those wishing 'to get away from it all'.
 Norfolk also offers a growing range of attractions to view and experience, particularly for families. And, of course, Norfolk boasts some great restaurants to sample as well as numerous fine pubs.
A wide variety of accommodation (not just holiday cottages) is available - everything from small 'bolt-hole' coastal hideaway cottages through to luxury villas and manor houses (complete with swimming pools, hot tubs and wireless internet access). There's something for everybody, whatever your budget.
Say goodbye to the stress of airports and flights and discover the delight of a holiday in Norfolk. Norfolk is less than 60 miles from the M25 and fully connected to all railway routes.
The majority of properties listed on our website are managed by the owners themselves (i.e. no agency fees or commission to pay) and therefore, offer highly competitive rental prices in comparison. Find yourself a bargain holiday today in beautiful North Norfolk.
The best beaches and the best weather...
 Summer 2009 was a huge success for Norfolk, with impressive temperatures and sunshine hours throughout the Summer, unequalled by anywhere else in the UK. Many complained that we never had the 'barbecue Summer' promised by the media, but here in North Norfolk we were basking in the sunshine with no reason to complain.
Our position on the east coast gives us the best chance of favourable weather and on average provides us with more sunny days and less rainfall than anywhere else in the UK.
Blue Flags for six Norfolk beaches
Six beaches on the North Norfolk coast currently boast Blue Flag status - Cromer, Sheringham, Mundesley, Sea Palling and Lowestoft (North and South of the pier). Nowhere else in England can you find such a diverse variety of beach types.
We have dunes, cliffs (even stripy ones!) , flat beaches (stretching for miles), pebble and shingle beaches, and much more... And all are within easy reach of just about any location, such as the shape of our county.
a bit about Norfolk...
 “the wilds of Norfolk”
Charles II had no use for Norfolk. He said it was fit only to be dug up to make roads for the rest of England. Horace Walpole (youngest son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole) shuddered when obliged, for family estate reasons, to journey into the 'wilds of Norfolk'.
As for Holkham, home of Coke of Norfolk, Earl of Leicester and 'Father of English Farming', this forty-thousand-acre estate when he inherited it in 1776 was so barren 'that two rabbits might often be seen fighting for one blade of grass'.
Norfolk today
Nowadays, Norfolk remains relatively unspoilt but is able to offer modern pleasures when and where required.
It's a broad, bright land of high heath and pine forests; of green marshes and sparkling broads; of vast barley stubbles that run into the sky; of purple moorland with heather; of saltings just as purple with sea lavender.
 Norwich
For contrast, Norfolk offers the city of Norwich, a city of antiquity and now famed as one of the greatest places to shop in the entire country.
Norfolk Geography
Norfolk probably has the bluest skies in England, the clearest visibility and the least rainfall. Norfolk's blue skies, clear distances and special blend of varied landscapes make the county a favourite for artists and photographers.
Covering 5,371 km² (2,074 square miles), Norfolk is the 5th largest English ceremonial county. Only North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cumbria and Devon are larger (largest listed first). Norfolk is oval in shape, being 67 miles east to west and 43 miles from north to south.
The North Sea, including the Wash, bounds it on the north and east. Suffolk lies to the south, Cambridgeshire to the west. Norfolk is almost an island, being cut off from Suffolk by the River Waveney and Little Ouse, and from Cambridgeshire by the Great Ouse and the Nene. Ninety miles of coastline complete the picture.
Norfolk Geology
The geology of Norfolk is fascinating and provides beaches with numerous fossils to be found.
Chalk underlies much of East Anglia, from the Cambridgeshire Gog Magog Hills through west Norfolk from Thetford to Castle Acre and on to Holme-next-the-sea.
 Breckland, a unique wild area of heath, sandy rabbit warrens and lonely wastes, was the armoury of prehistoric man. Here, Neolithic man quarried his flints in pits and underground workings, of which Grime's Graves, near Brandon are the classic example. His flint axes, arrow heads, skinning knives and scrapers were exported all over eastern and midland England.
At Hunstanton you find carstone, a dark brown, gritty, rather soft 'gingerbread' stone, much of it lying below red chalk. There is also much gault clay. Flint, pebbles and cobbles are everywhere. Faced flints are common as a building material. Hence the thousands of flint-built farmhouses, cottages and barns, walls and other buildings.
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