The second of four cycle routes.
The theme of the ride is aviation history, plane crashes, airfields, memorials, museums and other points of interest.
The idea is to give you a taste of riding in Norfolk while trying to add some interest to a simple bike ride.
All routes are about 100-120 km long.
They start at the Rail Station in the City of Norwich where there is loads of parking in the vicinity. Norwich is at the end of the Main line to London from Liverpool Street.
Please email me for a copy a pdf copy of the Route Map and a GPX file download, if you want!
Enjoy!
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Another excellent route and video. Looking forward to doing these in the summer.
Love your videos but sometimes your pronunciation of Norfolk place names cracks me up. You missed a crash landing at Southrepps and radar station at West Beckham which could've added some extra colour.
Great video. I might get the train to Norwich and visit some of the old airfields. I've now done most of the airfields in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamtonshire and Bedfordshire, I especially want to visit the anti aircraft practice done at RAF Langham
You didn’t go into the main part of Frettenham, which is situated on the road off to the right, after the aviation museum!
Re: pillbox next to the river. River Avon in South Wilts has similar. Plan was to station Home Guard in them in case of an invasion along the river beds using amphibious tanks. Often sited near bends in rivers to allow more time out of cover + clear shot. Some near Salisbury are accompanied by very heavy concrete pyramids either side of the river with metal rings embedded at the top. In an invasion scenario, the rings would be linked with thick steel cables to further hamper the progress of tanks. Invading forces would have to send out engineers with oxy-acetylene torches to cut the cables. The Home Guard would then take out the engineers from their pillbox.
Really enjoyable and fascinating……….hope the bike is ok?
I live right next to old Catton, didn’t have a clue about any of these memorials or crash sites, quite often cycle most of these routes taken in the video, will give me something to look out for next time 😊
Enjoying this series 👍. I did a similar themed ride a couple of years ago, taking in various WWII airfields, but in Suffolk.
Excellent!
Not been to Cromer in decades.
Great route. Lucky with the spoke, I have never had one go yet that didn't make my bike unrideable!!
What a great way to explore history.
It's tragic hearing about the aircraft crashes especially the last one involving 2 children. I bet the return ride was especially worrisome with the broken spoke.