Norfolk is part of the area of England known as East Anglia, named
after the Angles that settled in the area in the first millennium.
To the north is the Wash, a treacherous tidal area of shifting sandbanks and much
wildlife. To the south it borders Suffolk, to the southwest
Cambridgeshire.
There are a wide variety of lowland
landscapes, ranging from the pine forests in the south, to the flat,
reclaimed fertile agricultural land of the Fens in the west, to
the Norfolk Broads, a National Park comprising a linked network of
rivers and Broads caused by roman peat extraction, and the Fens.
The county town of
Norfolk is Norwich, a city with a fine Norman cathedral and many
beautiful streets, showing the medieval wealth of the region due to the
wool trade. Once boasting a pub for every day of the year and a
church for every Sunday of the year, the choice was curtailed slightly
after WW2.
Diss, the nearest town to Tibenham, is seven miles south and remains
a typical rural market town despite improving transport links.
