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 The EDP Bidwells Norfolk Food Festival (1 Sep - 3 Oct) is a celebration of Norfolk’s finest food and food producers. The festival features more than 300 events across the county. Highlights include Norwich’s Moveable Feast in aid of Parkinson’s UK (28 September), the EDP Norfolk Food Awards (22 September), the Battle of the Bangers (25 September) when the county's leading butchers compete for the public vote and a large Food Fair at The Forum Norwich (25 September), featuring cooking demonstrations and tastings. Produced in Norfolk’s 'Taste the View' events at food and drink producers throughout the county and the annual scone baking competition at Wroxham Barns (26 September) add to the mix. For full details see www.norfolkfoodfestival.co.uk.  |
| Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival |
 Great Yarmouth’s annual Maritime Festival on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September is a colourful celebration of all things nautical. Traditional tall ships, expedition vessels, steam drifters and lifeboats will be moored on South Quay for visitors to admire and go aboard. Enjoy shanty groups, folk bands, choirs and brass bands. Walk about entertainment includes Horatio Herring and Mrs H too! Lord Admiral Nelson will be surveying the scene, accompanied by Lady Emma Hamilton and the East Norfolk Militia will be on parade. |
| Heritage Open Days |
 Explore Norfolk’s fabulous built heritage during the Heritage Open Days Weekend, 9 to 12 September. More than 250 free events are being staged in Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn, South Norfolk and the Broads.Go on guided walks featuring Norwich’s Cathedral Quarter and industrial past. Get behind the scenes in Norman King’s Lynn and discover Yarmouth’s Naval Hospital. For listings of all Heritage Open Days events go to www.heritageopendays.org.uk. |
| Get Hands-on with the Stormin’ Normans in Norfolk |
 Norfolk is one of England’s greatest Norman counties. To celebrate our Norman heritage Norfolk Tourism and BBC Learning are co-ordinating a wide range of special events and activities from August to October as part of BBC Hands on History and to tie in with the BBC’s Norman season on TV, radio and online. Find out more on our page Normans in Norfolk. Do some medieval time travel at Castle Rising Castle and at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve. Explore 'The House of The King’ at Norwich Castle, or find out what living a Norman Monk's life was like at Norwich Cathedral. Design and create your own Norman arch at Binham Priory and go to a Stormin’ Normans event in a Norfolk library Then become a Norman at the Norfolk Archive Centre and meet the oldest oak in Norfolk – a sapling at the Battle of Hastings – at Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden and much more. Download the Normans in Norfolk leaflet or browse the Normans in Norfolk events. BBC Norfolk has produced a special Norman Walk at Castle Acre where you can walk in the footsteps of the Norman invaders and explore the landscape carved out by the conquest. Go to BBC Norfolk for a printable map, audio guide and a new family adventure trail. |
| What's on in Norfolk |
 There's plenty of events happening right across Norfolk to keep you entertained. For some inspiration, take a look at the What's On guide for events coming up... Highlights include: * Norfolk Food Festival and Norwich Wine Festival (1 Sep - 3 Oct), and North Norfolk Food Festival (4/5 Sep) * Thetford Festival (27 Aug - 5 Sep) * Great Yarmouth Festival of Bowls (29 Aug - 24 Sep) * North Norfolk Music Festival (2-12 Sep) * Waveney Springs Art Trail 2010 (1-30 Sep) * Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival, see above (5/6 Sep) |
| Norfolk's route for the Tour of Britain cycle race |
 One hundred and seventeen miles of Norfolk's roads will be the route for the county's largest ever live sporting spectacle, as the Tour of Britain cycle race heads across Norfolk on Thursday September 16.The Tour of Britain is the UK's biggest professional bicycle race and a centrepiece of the British sporting calendar - with live Internet coverage, and television broadcast in more than 100 countries. The Tour is also the biggest free to spectate sporting event in the UK - attracting around a million spectators to the roadside. The race will begin from Tuesday Market Place in King's Lynn on Thursday morning, taking in Hunstanton, Burnham Market, Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea, Sheringham, Holt, Aylsham, Norwich and Wroxham, before ending mid-afternoon on South Beach Parade in Great Yarmouth. Find out the Tour of Britain Norfolk route |
| Norfolk - World Class Tourism |
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