Vicarage House - Things to do

Banham Zoo

Banham Zoo is a 50-acre, award-winning charity zoo featuring over 500 animals, including big cats, giraffes, and penguins. Renowned as a family-friendly attraction with daily talks, feeding shows, and, for example, the Sky Trek aerial course, it focuses on conservation, education, and animal welfare.

Beaches

Brancaster Beach is famed for vast sands and big skies, perfect for families and watersports. Holkham Beach offers sweeping dunes and pine-backed shoreline, wonderfully unspoilt and cinematic. Holme-next-the-Sea is quieter, with colourful beach huts and the beautiful Holme Dunes Nature Reserve, ideal for birdwatching, peaceful walks and spectacular sunsets.

Broads

The Norfolk Broads, officially the Broads National Park, is a network of over 125 miles of lock-free, navigable rivers and shallow, man-made lakes (broads) in East Anglia, England. Formed by medieval peat digging, this top wetland habitat is renowned for boating, wildlife, and "big skies" scenery, serving as a major, tranquil tourism destination.

Burnham Market

Wander through this elegant Georgian seaside town and soak up its charm. Enjoy coffee or lunch at Tuscan Farmshop on Goose Beck Green. Browse Old School Books’ café-bookshop on North Street or grab a brew at Scandi Coffee. Visit Fairfax Gallery, relax at Norfolk Living’s café, shop at Anna, buy fresh fish at Gurneys, and treats at Humble Pie upstairs.

Elveden Estate - offroading/archery

Café, farm shop, off-roading or archery are all on offer on the estate, ten minutes from the house.

English Distillery

The English distillery, founded in 2006, helped revive English whiskey production after a hundred-year hiatus. Known for award-winning, non-chill filtered single malts, it uses local Norfolk ingredients to create both peated and unpeated, traditionally crafted spirits. There is an excellent restaurant within the distillery, the Grain Kitchen.

Go Ape

Go Ape is a premier UK-based outdoor adventure company specializing in treetop high-ropes courses, zip lines, and forest-based activities designed to challenge participants mentally and physically. Founded in 2002, it offers various experiences—including Treetop Challenge, Adventure, and Segways - aimed at all age groups, promoting teamwork, confidence-building, and reconnecting with nature.

Horse Racing Newmarket and Fakenham

Newmarket, the historic heart of British racing, thrills with prestigious fixtures on the Rowley Mile and July Course, steeped in centuries of equestrian heritage. In contrast, Fakenham offers friendly, rural National Hunt racing on a tight turf track, delivering lively jump action and a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere in Norfolk’s countryside.

Norwich

Norwich is a vibrant historic city blending medieval charm with a lively cultural scene. Its magnificent cathedral and Norman castle anchor winding cobbled streets like Elm Hill. Independent shops, cafés and the colourful market create a welcoming atmosphere. With theatres, galleries and green spaces, Norwich offers heritage, creativity and character in abundance.

Oxburgh Hall

Step through the gate and it’s easy to see why Oxburgh holds a special place in so many hearts. Home to the Bedingfield family since 1482, this magnificent red-brick house traces their turbulent story, evolving from medieval austerity to striking neo-Gothic Victorian splendour.

Paintballing

Set in a pine forest, this thrilling paintball experience delivers fast-paced action with plenty of cover to hide, dive and launch attacks. Battle across four exciting Thetford game zones—Fuel Dump, Lodge, Tanktastic and Holy Grail—where you’ll attack and defend to the limit. Professional marshals provide kit and semi-automatic markers; just bring courage and competitive spirit.

Wyken Vineyards/Leaping Hare

Restaurant, café and shop inspired by Daylesford, but better value. Created by Carla Carlisle, longtime Country Life columnist, it offers a superb café, curated shop and award-winning restaurant—book ahead. Café serves food all day; tables are first come, first served, indoors and out, Wednesday to Sunday. Saturday farmers’ market until 1pm: top-quality produce, pizza, beautiful gardens year-round and flowers galore.

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