Where to live in Norwich
Discussion
I due to spend in the next 6-12 months in Norwich and will be renting in that time.
I'd like to find a place which meets the following criteria and would welcome and recommendation on location (and houses, though that's asking a bit much!)
- Enough distance from the city centre to allow a TVR to warm up (6-10 miles)
- A decent area (preferrably a small village)
- As little traffic into town as I can get away with
Any ideas?
TIA,
D
I'd like to find a place which meets the following criteria and would welcome and recommendation on location (and houses, though that's asking a bit much!)
- Enough distance from the city centre to allow a TVR to warm up (6-10 miles)
- A decent area (preferrably a small village)
- As little traffic into town as I can get away with
Any ideas?
TIA,
D
_deejay_ said:
I due to spend in the next 6-12 months in Norwich and will be renting in that time.
I'd like to find a place which meets the following criteria and would welcome and recommendation on location (and houses, though that's asking a bit much!)
- Enough distance from the city centre to allow a TVR to warm up (6-10 miles)
- A decent area (preferrably a small village)
- As little traffic into town as I can get away with
Any ideas?
TIA,
D
my uncle lives in Ludham on the broads - 11 miles from norwich and 15odd miles from yarmouth, mid sized village very quiet and affluent, lots of countryside but all amenities within the village itself, two pubs and some really cool roads
I'd love to live there 
see here for a map. very few scameras and nowhere to park a scamvan either on most of the roads, stay off the A47 though, particularly round acle where the area known as the 'acle straight' is heavily scammed as it's the straightest bit of road around - although it does have a nasty kink in it which tends to produce high accident figures
I lived in Wroxham when stationed at Coltishall nice little place, and Stalham not such a nice place but it may have improved.
Have you thought about living on a boat? This is what I did and it was great, ex Hoseasons 38' sliding roof jobby.
Conditions were wonderful for most of the year and bearable in the real nasty winter months. Just make sure it is heated and insulated well.
Summer in this part of the country is unbeatable, coming from Scotland and Cornwall I had no idea summers could be so long, hot and dry. The broads in summer are fantastic and the coast is only a few minutes away.
Winter is miserable and can feel more like Siberia than England when the Easterly gales are blowing.
Enjoy
Have you thought about living on a boat? This is what I did and it was great, ex Hoseasons 38' sliding roof jobby.
Conditions were wonderful for most of the year and bearable in the real nasty winter months. Just make sure it is heated and insulated well.
Summer in this part of the country is unbeatable, coming from Scotland and Cornwall I had no idea summers could be so long, hot and dry. The broads in summer are fantastic and the coast is only a few minutes away.
Winter is miserable and can feel more like Siberia than England when the Easterly gales are blowing.
Enjoy
I've just moved to the midlands after living/growing up around Norwich.
work out which side of the city you are working in...don't try to drive into the southern side of the city in morning rush hour..
wymondham (pronounced windom) is very nice and very close to some v good roads (not far from Lotus factory at Hethel)
work out which side of the city you are working in...don't try to drive into the southern side of the city in morning rush hour..
wymondham (pronounced windom) is very nice and very close to some v good roads (not far from Lotus factory at Hethel)
I live in a small village between Bungay (pronounced Bun-gee - don't ask they have a funny thing about pronunciation round these parts) and Haleswoth.
I'm about 25-30mins from Norwich but not sure I'd want to commute there - avoid anything to the East of the city - the closer you get to the sea the more scum you encounter seems to be the rule.
Now you need to learn the following:-
1. You are a foreginer - you may get your Suffolk/Norfolk passport in 15-20 years time but don't bank on it.
2. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
3. We use compooters round these parts. E-mail for many is some kind of drug city lads take on a saturady night out.
4. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
5. We don't say sh1t, it's squit.
6. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
7. If you are a Tractor boy you will be tied up in Castle Mall and stoned. Delia is a Goddess.
8. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
9. If you want to go anywhere you have to travel 45mins before you get to a road that will take you somewhere else in the country
10. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
11. "Al roite boy!" is an acceptable form of greeting for any male outside the city who you know.
12. Did I mention some form of radar detection equipment might be an idea?
I'm about 25-30mins from Norwich but not sure I'd want to commute there - avoid anything to the East of the city - the closer you get to the sea the more scum you encounter seems to be the rule.
Now you need to learn the following:-
1. You are a foreginer - you may get your Suffolk/Norfolk passport in 15-20 years time but don't bank on it.
2. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
3. We use compooters round these parts. E-mail for many is some kind of drug city lads take on a saturady night out.
4. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
5. We don't say sh1t, it's squit.
6. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
7. If you are a Tractor boy you will be tied up in Castle Mall and stoned. Delia is a Goddess.
8. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
9. If you want to go anywhere you have to travel 45mins before you get to a road that will take you somewhere else in the country
10. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
11. "Al roite boy!" is an acceptable form of greeting for any male outside the city who you know.
12. Did I mention some form of radar detection equipment might be an idea?
The West side of Norwich (pronounced Naaridge by locals)isn't too bad. Hethersett is about 6 miles from the city & is a growing ever larger village, Wymondham (pronounced wind-um) 9 miles from the City is OK, got quite a few shops & is only about 4 miles from Lotus HQ at Hethel, then there's Attleborough. again it's a growing town with rail access to Norwich & is on the A11, the main escape route from Norfolk . it's about 14 miles from Norwich & is only about 3 miles from Snetterton, so you can escape into the world of motor racing quite easily. All are on or very near to the A11 which is virtually dual carriageway (and mobile speed camera vans) to Norwich.
You will also need to learn the local dialect too.
The obvious being Bootifull = beautiful
Hoombase = Homebase
Bee un kew = B & Q
Bishey Barney Bee = Ladybird
Happisburgh (village on the coast) is pronounced Haysborough, as with Wymondham (Windum) and Costessey is Cossey.
If I can find any more I'll post them.
You will also need to learn the local dialect too.
The obvious being Bootifull = beautiful
Hoombase = Homebase
Bee un kew = B & Q
Bishey Barney Bee = Ladybird
Happisburgh (village on the coast) is pronounced Haysborough, as with Wymondham (Windum) and Costessey is Cossey.
If I can find any more I'll post them.
monkey boy 1 said:
The Speed cameras are only on the A11 once every couple of weeks & are posted in the local papers & the EDP24 (local paper web site).
Attleborough cheap??. I thought it was reasonably expencive. I live in that area there too.
It's all relative - and they were to rent (which may not have any relation to the actual price to buy).
I'll go and have a look - thanks for the info.
getting into norwich every day fom attleborough will quickly drive you insane. my employers' got a workshop there and its the worst part of my week getting in and out of the town.
first theres the over-zealous proliferation of mobile speed scameras which to add insult to injury only have to roll 200 metres from their depot to a local bridge to start coining in the cash/ increasing the safety. theyve got me twice. the worlds a safer place now i can tell you.
plus, there is also the hideous build up of traffic on the a11 EVERY morning which will mean you queing for at least 45 minutes just to get on the roundabout. and theres no way around it either. joy. meaning a 20 mile journey to norwich will most likely take in excess of an hour. double joy.
additionally, though theres little wrong with attleborough, but if you have needs other than car crime and early nights you might get a tad bored. maybe.
i live in winterton, a tiny village between great yarmouth and norwich. about 16 miles from norwich, takes me twenty minutes to get in, door to door. good fun roads too. perfect for the cerb, perfect for increased saftey-mongers. nice place to live to, good beach, good waves for canoeing etc.
good luck with your choice.
best wishes,
n.
first theres the over-zealous proliferation of mobile speed scameras which to add insult to injury only have to roll 200 metres from their depot to a local bridge to start coining in the cash/ increasing the safety. theyve got me twice. the worlds a safer place now i can tell you.
plus, there is also the hideous build up of traffic on the a11 EVERY morning which will mean you queing for at least 45 minutes just to get on the roundabout. and theres no way around it either. joy. meaning a 20 mile journey to norwich will most likely take in excess of an hour. double joy.
additionally, though theres little wrong with attleborough, but if you have needs other than car crime and early nights you might get a tad bored. maybe.
i live in winterton, a tiny village between great yarmouth and norwich. about 16 miles from norwich, takes me twenty minutes to get in, door to door. good fun roads too. perfect for the cerb, perfect for increased saftey-mongers. nice place to live to, good beach, good waves for canoeing etc.
good luck with your choice.
best wishes,
n.
Wymondham is good worth getting in touch with these folks ask for Mick Money.
www.moneyandduncan.co.uk/
Also it is close to Snetterton
www.moneyandduncan.co.uk/
Also it is close to Snetterton
rude-boy said:
I live in a small village between Bungay (pronounced Bun-gee - don't ask they have a funny thing about pronunciation round these parts) and Haleswoth.
I'm about 25-30mins from Norwich but not sure I'd want to commute there - avoid anything to the East of the city - the closer you get to the sea the more scum you encounter seems to be the rule.
Now you need to learn the following:-
1. You are a foreginer - you may get your Suffolk/Norfolk passport in 15-20 years time but don't bank on it.
2. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
3. We use compooters round these parts. E-mail for many is some kind of drug city lads take on a saturady night out.
4. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
5. We don't say sh1t, it's squit.
6. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
7. If you are a Tractor boy you will be tied up in Castle Mall and stoned. Delia is a Goddess.
8. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
9. If you want to go anywhere you have to travel 45mins before you get to a road that will take you somewhere else in the country
10. Buy a Road Angel, or similar
11. "Al roite boy!" is an acceptable form of greeting for any male outside the city who you know.
12. Did I mention some form of radar detection equipment might be an idea?
How yer doon rude-boy. I live very close to you then (Good advice BTW) Edited to hide address
>> Edited by scared but happy on Monday 21st March 18:55
Swaffham is often good for a laugh.
NEWS
Lotto lout’s birthday bash
21 March 2005 19:15
Lottery winner Michael Carroll's birthday bash turned out to be just that – a demolition derby on the field he owns next to his £325,000 mansion.
A dozen cars, including Mercedes and BMWs, were wrecked in a series of banger races around the £9.7m jackpot winner's three-acre plot at the Grange, off the A47 Lynn Road, Swaffham.
The celebrations to mark his 22nd birthday – held 10 days early on Saturday – included a huge bonfire fed with bits and pieces that fell off vehicles during the racing.
Now neighbours Ruth Leeks, 34, and her mother Jean Poulter, 67, have complained to Breckland Council about noise and smoke caused by the event, which wrecked their own plans for a family barbecue.
Mrs Leeks said: "It all started late in the afternoon and went on until about 8pm. It was unbelievable – he was racing cars and burning them. The noise and smoke were absolutely horrific.
"There was a lot of kids there, the yobs he goes around with. We had our family visiting us and we were going to have a barbecue in the afternoon, which was ruined."
She added: "It has been reasonably quiet until the last couple of weeks and now it has all flared up again. We keep complaining to the council but nothing happens."
Mr Carroll, who also owns property in Downham Market, was the subject of repeated complaints from neighbours about his activities at the Swaffham mansion after he moved in two years ago.
There was fury when he set fire to a 30ft tower of rubbish topped by a caravan to celebrate bonfire night in 2003, filling neighbouring homes with the stench of smoke and burning rubber from the blaze.
Earlier in the year, abatement notices were issued prohibiting him from making excess noise or creating black smoke at the property.
And after a series of previous banger races on the site, he was warned that if they continued, he could be ordered to apply for planning permission to allow his land to be used for car and bike racing.
He set up home in Bexwell Road, Downham, before serving 10 weeks of a five-month jail sentence for drugs offences.
After his release last September, he moved to another house at Felbrigg Road in the town with 16-year-old girlfriend Samantha Howard.
Mr Carroll refuses to speak to reporters about complaints involving his behaviour but in the past has commented: "It's my field. I do what I want."
A Breckland Council official said the circumstances were being investigated.
NEWS
Lotto lout’s birthday bash
21 March 2005 19:15
Lottery winner Michael Carroll's birthday bash turned out to be just that – a demolition derby on the field he owns next to his £325,000 mansion.
A dozen cars, including Mercedes and BMWs, were wrecked in a series of banger races around the £9.7m jackpot winner's three-acre plot at the Grange, off the A47 Lynn Road, Swaffham.
The celebrations to mark his 22nd birthday – held 10 days early on Saturday – included a huge bonfire fed with bits and pieces that fell off vehicles during the racing.
Now neighbours Ruth Leeks, 34, and her mother Jean Poulter, 67, have complained to Breckland Council about noise and smoke caused by the event, which wrecked their own plans for a family barbecue.
Mrs Leeks said: "It all started late in the afternoon and went on until about 8pm. It was unbelievable – he was racing cars and burning them. The noise and smoke were absolutely horrific.
"There was a lot of kids there, the yobs he goes around with. We had our family visiting us and we were going to have a barbecue in the afternoon, which was ruined."
She added: "It has been reasonably quiet until the last couple of weeks and now it has all flared up again. We keep complaining to the council but nothing happens."
Mr Carroll, who also owns property in Downham Market, was the subject of repeated complaints from neighbours about his activities at the Swaffham mansion after he moved in two years ago.
There was fury when he set fire to a 30ft tower of rubbish topped by a caravan to celebrate bonfire night in 2003, filling neighbouring homes with the stench of smoke and burning rubber from the blaze.
Earlier in the year, abatement notices were issued prohibiting him from making excess noise or creating black smoke at the property.
And after a series of previous banger races on the site, he was warned that if they continued, he could be ordered to apply for planning permission to allow his land to be used for car and bike racing.
He set up home in Bexwell Road, Downham, before serving 10 weeks of a five-month jail sentence for drugs offences.
After his release last September, he moved to another house at Felbrigg Road in the town with 16-year-old girlfriend Samantha Howard.
Mr Carroll refuses to speak to reporters about complaints involving his behaviour but in the past has commented: "It's my field. I do what I want."
A Breckland Council official said the circumstances were being investigated.
Another vote for 'live on the side of Norwich you'll be working on'. I live 25 miles away to the North of the city (Fakenham) and to get to South Norwich when it's busy I'll go down to Dereham (which is a dump - don't live there) then pop along the A47. If you do work on the Southern side of Norwich then a village near Dereham could be OK as it's about 15mins along the 47 to Norwich with light traffic, about 30 mins in rush hour the one time I did it.
Some local Norfolk dialect that you need to know before you are even concidered to be a local.(with the translation into proper English)
Narridge yoonyun = major norfolk employer
thang kyer = spoken at high speed, used by Norfolk shop assistants when accepting money
how're yer gettin arn = norfolk greeting
hair = here
shicagooo's = nightspot on Prince of Wales road
bare = sold by the pint in shicagooo's
is that rioght? = comment to show attention being paid to speaker
ass a jouk = i'm just kidding
kharzi = suburb on the western out-skirts of Norwich (not bowthorpe) (Costessey)
tross = pronounced like gross only beginning with a "T". suburb southside of Norwich - Trouse
windam = small town south of norwich. (sensible abbreviation of it's proper name = wymundimundimundum)
card = traditionally eaten with chips
koodee = shop in st. stephens street QD
hoom base = DIY shop (various sites)
fooze = electrical component on sale at hum base
fool = petrol or diesel
int-huh-net = worldwide web
loos-tarfed = daft east coast fishing port South of Gt.Yarmouth
stoo-ped, term applied to f**kwits
gatoo = sticky chocolate cake
foo too = get these developed at boots
sproight = fizzy lemon drink
boost = to brag
jargon = like running, but slower
Bee un Koo = B&Q
Cumpoota = PC
Narridge yoonyun = major norfolk employer
thang kyer = spoken at high speed, used by Norfolk shop assistants when accepting money
how're yer gettin arn = norfolk greeting
hair = here
shicagooo's = nightspot on Prince of Wales road
bare = sold by the pint in shicagooo's
is that rioght? = comment to show attention being paid to speaker
ass a jouk = i'm just kidding
kharzi = suburb on the western out-skirts of Norwich (not bowthorpe) (Costessey)
tross = pronounced like gross only beginning with a "T". suburb southside of Norwich - Trouse
windam = small town south of norwich. (sensible abbreviation of it's proper name = wymundimundimundum)
card = traditionally eaten with chips
koodee = shop in st. stephens street QD
hoom base = DIY shop (various sites)
fooze = electrical component on sale at hum base
fool = petrol or diesel
int-huh-net = worldwide web
loos-tarfed = daft east coast fishing port South of Gt.Yarmouth
stoo-ped, term applied to f**kwits
gatoo = sticky chocolate cake
foo too = get these developed at boots
sproight = fizzy lemon drink
boost = to brag
jargon = like running, but slower
Bee un Koo = B&Q
Cumpoota = PC
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