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2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Norfolk, England

Updated February 25, 2021
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Thursford, England

Thursford Collection

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.
Timbers from Seahenge on display at the Lynn Museum.

King's Lynn, England

Seahenge

This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.
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Little Ellingham, England

Little Ellingham Clock Tower

A unique clock tower in the garden of an elegant Victorian hall.
4 miles from Norfolk
The Devil’s Punchbowl, empty.

Thetford, England

The Devil's Punchbowl

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.
11 miles from Norfolk
Grime’s Graves Neolithic flint mines.

Lynford, England

Grime's Graves

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.
12 miles from Norfolk
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Fakenham, England

Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History

The last gas works in England and Wales details how people once extracted the resource from coal.
14 miles from Norfolk

Thetford, England

Statue of Maharaja Duleep Singh

A bronze sculpture of last Sikh maharaja of the Punjab, outside the English estate where he once lived.
15 miles from Norfolk
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In eastern England, Blickling Hall and its historic treasures are under attack.

Why an English Manor Is Deploying Parasitic Wasps and Moth Pheromones

Conservators are trying to protect historic treasures—but it's all more subdued than it sounds.
by Gemma Tarlach, Atlas Obscura
February 25, 2021
Often hidden below depressed, waterlogged earth, the ghost ponds must be excavated into existence.

How to Bring a Pond Back From the Dead

Norfolk's ghost ponds project wants to help biodiversity, one small wetland at a time.
by Isaac Schultz, Atlas Obscura
September 3, 2019
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