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“The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.”

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Raffaella Barker is a renowned author born in 1964. Her works span various genres, including novels, essays, and children's literature. Barker is beloved by readers for her unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more

“The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.”

People Levels Land Smart Advantage Concern Bottom Dry Soil Farming Neat Diligent Norfolk

Book:Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

Source: Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

“I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.”

Sea Sky Inspire Fishes Burning Sunset Mud Limitless Neighbour Norfolk

Author:Raffaella Barker

“There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.”

Wells Sea England Green Woods Grey Desolation Wildness Marshes Norfolk

Book:Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson

Source: Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson

“Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.”

Has Beens Country Seems Church Missing Empty Rounds Corners Horizon Towers Spares Jewels Lanes Necklaces Norfolk

Author:John Betjeman

“See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.”

Millions Broads Mice Horde Norfolk Ibiza