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- Norfolk County Council Norfolk County Council – responsible for education, highways and social services.
Useful Links
- Aylsham Local History Society Taking the history lead in this project.
- Aylsham Town Council Giving full support to the project
- Aylsham Wildlife Trust The wildlife trust studies in and around Aylsham
- Brampton Parish Council The Parish Council for Brampton – email bopc@hotmail.co.uk
- Broads Authority Principal conservation agency for the Broads
- Broads Review website A great website reviewing locations around the Broads
- Bure Valley Railway Although not actively involved the BVR runs parallel to the navigation and great views of it are afforded from the train or footpath.
- Buxton Mill Brampton Mill Holiday Apartment
- Buxton Parish Council Buxton with Lammas PC – this site includes some Bure photographs.
- Captain Ahabs Watery Tales This is a blog site with some crackingly good photographs of the navigation.
- Coltishall Parish Council Website for Coltishall
- East Anglian Waterways Association An association with an interest in all navigable waterways in East Anglia past, present and future.
- Hautbois Activity Centre Hautbois Residential and Activity Centre offers the perfect venue for training, conferences, activity or residential breaks. Hautbois is owned by Girlguiding Anglia, and is open to bookings from Guide & Scout Groups, Schools, Businesses and private gr
- Horstead Parish Council Website for Horstead
- Inland Waterways Association The website for the local branch of the IWA
- Inland Waterways Association (local branch) Website for the Ipswich branch of the IWA
- Jim Shead Jim is a waterways historian and photographer with an interest in this and other waterways. He has a dedicated Aylsham Navigation page on his site.
- Mary Hardy's Diary The result of 25 years of transcribing and research by Margaret Bird – this is an important social history with direct relevance to the Navigation.
- Museum of the Broads The primary museum collating, conserving and displaying the history of the Broads. The Aylsham Navigation was part of the Broads network
- Norfolk Art Place Norfolk Art Place is a new business, specialising in the supply of art products from Norfolk-based artists, and services to artists. They say they are passionate about art, about Norfolk, and about the wonderful variety of art and artists in our county. I
- Norfolk Federation of Women’s Institutes Part of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, the largest voluntary organisation for women in the UK
- Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Based at Gressenhall this is the prime site and organisation for the industrial history of the County.
- Norfolk Mills A really good site with info about the navigation. This site has permitted use of some of its material by us and we are grateful. Thanks.
- Norfolk Wherry Trust Owners, preservers and operators of the Albion
- Postcards from the Broads A site full of interesting old photographs from all around the Broads.
- Richardsons Boating Holidays Richardsons have supported us – other boatyards are available
- The Canoe Man Organised trips by canoe throughout the Broads including the Aylsham Navigation.
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Tag Archives: Brampton
Easter Wishes
Easter (normally) is a time of seasonal transition with Spring already sprung and winter a recent memory. This year things are a little topsy turvy with winter weather clinging for much longer than we have become used to. However over … Continue reading
Winters compared
Except in the very worst weather winter can throw the Aylsham Navigation would have stayed open as it is based on flowing rather than static water. Just as well too as the wherries would have been responsible for bringing fuel, … Continue reading
Christmas Grumps
Now don’t get me wrong I absolutely love Christmas but I can’t stand the build up which seems to start earlier every year. For me Christmas should start about noon on the 24th and be over by the close of … Continue reading
Posted in Bure Blog
Tagged Brampton, Burgh, christmas, Footpath, Great Yarmouth, Island, Oxnead, wherry
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Footpath between Oxnead Bridge and Cradle Bridge
The footpath between Oxnead Bridge and Cradle Bridge is reported as being very difficult. The newly authorised 1 metre wide path through the “Island” has not been enforced and is utterly impossible to get through. The old path is rapidly … Continue reading
Journey’s End
(This is the third of three blogs that have followed on and have been posted a few days apart. The first was All Aboard and the second Cruising Onward. Let me know what you think by feeding back through this … Continue reading
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Tagged Acapulco, aylsham, Brampton, Broadsman, Buxton, event, Hilda, Horstead, Isaac Helsdon, Mayflower, Oxnead, Richardsons
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Aylsham Navigation event for Brampton and Oxnead
The following event will be taking place in Brampton Village Hall – all are welcome.
Rememberance
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. The words penned by … Continue reading
The ghost of Burgh Reach
There slipping forward slowly in the early morning mist heading north from the Oxnead lock cut is the ghost of a wherry. She’s small, only 13 tonnes and built originally in Aylsham many moons ago. The sail lowers to pass … Continue reading
