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The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads is a unique area of water, grazing marshes, fen and woodland, and home to some of the rarest plants and creatures in the UK. It is Britain's largest protected wetland, having similar status to a national park.
The Broads Authority was set up in 1989 to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the Broads, promote the enjoyment of the Broads and protect the interests of navigation
 

 

The population of Norfolk is reckoned to be
816,500 in mid-2004, an increase of around 5,800 since mid-2003.
Norfolk has the seventh highest population of the 34 non-metropolitan counties in England, and the tenth lowest population density – 1.52 people per
hectare.

Hotels & Catering
The South West had the highest proportion of hotel & catering businesses at 8.0 per cent and he East of England the lowest at 6.2 per cent, below the average for England (7.1 per cent).


Norfolk is the birthplace of the recently remembered Lord Admiral Nelson. It also has one of the Queens stately homes Sandringham.


 

East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially from its crucial position on the eastern shores of the North Sea and its participation in the successive patterns of invasion and settlement of England.

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