Britain's finest wetland
The Norfolk
Broads
125 miles of magical waterways. Boating holidays, waterside lodges
and extraordinary wildlife — all coming to Broads.com.
The Broads were created in medieval times — not by nature, but by centuries of peat digging. As water levels rose, the abandoned workings flooded, forming the unique network of lakes and rivers we know today.
Home to the Swallowtail butterfly — Britain's largest, and found nowhere else in the country — alongside otters, marsh harriers, bitterns and the rare Norfolk hawker dragonfly.
The Norfolk Wherry, a distinctive black-sailed cargo boat, has worked these waterways since the 17th century. Just eight survive today, and you can still sail on one of them.
Boating holidays on the Broads have been popular since the Victorian era — John Loynes opened the first boat hire company at Wroxham in the 1870s, establishing the village as the Broads' unofficial capital.
Beyond the water, 659 medieval churches dot the Norfolk landscape — the highest concentration in the world — many accessible by boat along the quiet rivers and tidal reaches of the Broads.
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