Explore the Best Our Region Has to Offer
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FROM FRITTON Fritton Lake is a family run private holiday club in the heart of LAKE a pioneering thousand-acre rewilding project. It’s home to a two-mile long lake, beautiful wildlife and luxury cabin retreats, Join us for adventures in nature including wild swimming, trail running, yoga, great local food and a positive life-changing impact on our environment. Beccles Road, Fritton, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 9HA [email protected] 01493 484008 NORWICH GREAT YARMOUTH LOWESTOFT Once you have sampled Fritton Lake’s extensive list of activities, unspoilt sustainable wildland and unrivalled seasonal food, you may want to explore the best our beautiful region has to offer. This guide is designed to be your starting point. Enjoy! SOUTHWOLD Norwich 40mins Great Yarmouth 20mins Lowestoft 20mins Southwold 40mins Aldeburgh 60mins ALDEBURGH 5 6 NORWICH GREAT YARMOUTH LOWESTOFT Once you have sampled Fritton Lake’s extensive list of activities, unspoilt sustainable wildland and unrivalled seasonal food, you may want to explore the best our beautiful region has to offer. This guide is designed to be your starting point. Enjoy! SOUTHWOLD Norwich 40mins Great Yarmouth 20mins Lowestoft 20mins Southwold 40mins Aldeburgh 60mins ALDEBURGH 5 6 FAMILY MUSEUMS CULTURE ENTERTAINMENT East Anglia is steeped in history, with the first East Anglia has always been an inspiration for Great Yarmouth has everything you need for human settlers to this isle thought to have come artists and is now home to some internationally a fun family day out – enjoy acres of smooth ashore not too far from Fritton. Museums renouned venues. The architecturally stunning sands, or walk along the Golden Mile that’s such as the Great Yarmouth Time and Tide Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, bookended with two traditional amusement Museum, Norwich Castle Museum and Art designed by Sir Norman Foster, holds an parks - Joyland at one end is perfect for younger Gallery, and Strangers Hall in Norwich tell eclectic collection of sculptures, paintings, families, while at the southern extreme is the the story of life in East Anglia through the ceramics and other objects including works by Pleasure Beach for those who like their thrills centuries. You can find vehicular history at Picasso, Degas and Bacon. Over on the Suffolk higher and faster. In-between are dozens of East Anglian Transport Museum in Lowestoft, coast is world famous Snape Maltings, which restaurants, amusements and other attractions, or take a ride back to the golden age of steam hosts performances by acclaimed musicians and during the summer the skies light up with at Bressingham Steam Museum, set on the from across the globe every year in events such weekly firework displays. Norfolk/Suffolk border. as the Snape Proms and the Aldeburgh Festival. Just off the seafront is the iconic Hippodrome Fancy taking in a film? You’ll find three cinemas Circus, the only remaining purpose-built within ten miles of Fritton: the Palace Cinema circus building in the country. International in Gorleston, East Coast Cinema in Lowestoft performers entertain packed houses here every and Arc Cinema in Great Yarmouth. Norwich summer and during the school holidays. And has an Odeon and a Vue for the latest in Suffolk, delighted children get lost for hours BEACHES blockbusters, and for a more arthouse bill try in Southwold’s Maize Maze. Cinema City, perhaps the only cinema in the country set in a Grade I listed building. Inland you’ll find Bewilderwood, an enchanted This part of the world has some of the best kingdom set in acres of Norfolk woodland, beaches in the country. A short drive from The Norwich Theatre Royal is the largest while close to Norwich is Roarr! Dinosaur Fritton Lake takes you to Southwold, a classic theatre in East Anglia, and draws the top Adventure Park, where prehistoric giants can British seaside town with its quirky pier and productions and performers in the country, be found amongst adventure play areas, splash gentle promenade. Livelier times can be found from Shakespeare to stand-up. Close by is the pads, zip lines and more. at Great Yarmouth along its famous Golden Norwich Playhouse, a more intimate venue Mile, while the quiet and the calm of beaches that hosts an incredible range of different such as Winterton, Covehithe and Kessingland shows and performers. are perfect for those who enjoy a reflective seaside stroll. 7 8 FAMILY MUSEUMS CULTURE ENTERTAINMENT East Anglia is steeped in history, with the first East Anglia has always been an inspiration for Great Yarmouth has everything you need for human settlers to this isle thought to have come artists and is now home to some internationally a fun family day out – enjoy acres of smooth ashore not too far from Fritton. Museums renouned venues. The architecturally stunning sands, or walk along the Golden Mile that’s such as the Great Yarmouth Time and Tide Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, bookended with two traditional amusement Museum, Norwich Castle Museum and Art designed by Sir Norman Foster, holds an parks - Joyland at one end is perfect for younger Gallery, and Strangers Hall in Norwich tell eclectic collection of sculptures, paintings, families, while at the southern extreme is the the story of life in East Anglia through the ceramics and other objects including works by Pleasure Beach for those who like their thrills centuries. You can find vehicular history at Picasso, Degas and Bacon. Over on the Suffolk higher and faster. In-between are dozens of East Anglian Transport Museum in Lowestoft, coast is world famous Snape Maltings, which restaurants, amusements and other attractions, or take a ride back to the golden age of steam hosts performances by acclaimed musicians and during the summer the skies light up with at Bressingham Steam Museum, set on the from across the globe every year in events such weekly firework displays. Norfolk/Suffolk border. as the Snape Proms and the Aldeburgh Festival. Just off the seafront is the iconic Hippodrome Fancy taking in a film? You’ll find three cinemas Circus, the only remaining purpose-built within ten miles of Fritton: the Palace Cinema circus building in the country. International in Gorleston, East Coast Cinema in Lowestoft performers entertain packed houses here every and Arc Cinema in Great Yarmouth. Norwich summer and during the school holidays. And has an Odeon and a Vue for the latest in Suffolk, delighted children get lost for hours BEACHES blockbusters, and for a more arthouse bill try in Southwold’s Maize Maze. Cinema City, perhaps the only cinema in the country set in a Grade I listed building. Inland you’ll find Bewilderwood, an enchanted This part of the world has some of the best kingdom set in acres of Norfolk woodland, beaches in the country. A short drive from The Norwich Theatre Royal is the largest while close to Norwich is Roarr! Dinosaur Fritton Lake takes you to Southwold, a classic theatre in East Anglia, and draws the top Adventure Park, where prehistoric giants can British seaside town with its quirky pier and productions and performers in the country, be found amongst adventure play areas, splash gentle promenade. Livelier times can be found from Shakespeare to stand-up. Close by is the pads, zip lines and more. at Great Yarmouth along its famous Golden Norwich Playhouse, a more intimate venue Mile, while the quiet and the calm of beaches that hosts an incredible range of different such as Winterton, Covehithe and Kessingland shows and performers. are perfect for those who enjoy a reflective seaside stroll. 7 8 NATURE & SPORT DAY BOATS RESERVES In addition to everything Fritton Lake offers Life flows past at a slower pace when you Our rural location is a nature-lover’s paradise. you on site, there are plenty of ways to get while away the day navigating the waters of There are a dozen RSPB reserves in the area, active in the local area. Get on the water with the Norfolk Broads. You can hire your craft at including the internationally significant surfing in Southwold, kitesurfing at Lowestoft Bridge Stores in neighboring St Olaves, or head Minsmere reserve on the Suffolk coast, and or windsurfing on Hickling Broad. Highball in further inland and explore the northern arm of Berney Marshes which welcomes over 60,000 Norwich allows you to stretch your climbing Broads. Wherever you choose to cast-off, you’ll migrating birds every year. The marshes at muscles, while Norwich Snow Sports is the find peace and tranquility amongst the reed- Buckenham, Carlton Colville and North Cove place to ski, snowboard or tube it down the beds and wildlife of this National Park. are great places to see an astonishing diversity slopes. If you fancy spoiling a good walk then of plant life, birds of prey, rare insects and the Bungay and Waveney Golf Club offers you other creatures that make these peaceful sites a par 69 parkland course, or you can have a true their home, while the beach at Horsey is the links experience at the par 71 Gorleston-on- HISTORIC place to go to see hundreds of grey seals from Sea Golf Club, the most easterly in the country. November until the end of January. BUILDINGS Prefer to hack on a horse rather than round a & GARDENS golf course? You can ride through some of the Waveney Valley at Annabelle’s Equestrian, or WINE TOURS canter along the beach with Pakefield Riding & TASTINGS At Fritton we are lucky enough to have the School. Meanwhile polo players can enjoy spectacular Somerleyton Hall on our doorstep. a chukka in the stunning surroundings of This stunning Grade II listed Jacobean Manor Discover why the vineyards of Suffolk and Langley Abbey in Norfolk.