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.
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.
