National parks · East of England
The Norfolk Broads: Britain's biggest wetland
Seven rivers, 63 broads, and 125 miles of navigable waterway in the only national park you can sail.
The Norfolk Broads are the youngest of Britain's national parks (designated 1989) and the only one that's officially wetland. The 'broads' themselves are flooded medieval peat workings — the Vikings dug them, the rain kept them. Today the area has 125 miles of navigable waterway, more bittern and crane than the rest of Britain put together, and a fleet of hire boats waiting at Wroxham, Potter Heigham and Stalham.
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