Did you know …?
• Norwich and its surrounding area currently attracts around 8 million day visitors and 1.3m staying visitors each year.
• Norwich is the largest city in East Anglia with a population of 250,000
• Norwich is the largest walled city in England with the most intact mediaeval street pattern in the country.
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Norwich Cathedral is one of Europe’s greatest Romanesque cathedrals and it has the largest cathedral precinct in the UK.
• Norwich has the only intact friary complex in the UK, one of Europe’s great
Norman castles, the most pre-reformation churches of any city north of the Alps and 1,560 statutorily listed buildings spanning 1,000 years of history.
• Norwich houses the largest 6-day open-air market in England.
• The Norfolk Broads is Britain’s largest protected wetland with status equivalent to a National Park with 200km of lock-free navigable rivers, shallow lakes, woodland, fens and grazing marshes, home to some of the rarest plants and wildlife in the UK.
• Norwich has a strong arts and entertainment offering. Norwich hosts annually the Norfolk and Norwich Festival (May), Royal Norfolk Show (Jun), Norwich Fringe Festival (Oct), Norwich Food Festival (Oct), the Norwich Beer Festival (Oct), The Forum Ice Skating (Dec).
• Norwich is home to a major producing television company,
Anglia Television and the
BBC East Headquarters are based at The Forum, which together provide a media dimension to the city’s cultural offering.
• Norwich has been placed in the
top 5 of UK places to shop (Venuescore Survey by Javelin).
• Norwich was voted in the top ten of
university cities by students.