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Norfolk
is a vast and secretive County, which goes on very much in its own way
whether the rest of England cares or not.
You take Norfolk people as you find them.
The County is bounded to the south by the rivers Little Ouse and
Waveney. This is the Suffolk
border. Further west is
Cambridgeshire, then a bit of Lincolnshire, and then it’s the Wash and the
North Sea.
There are only three really sizeable towns – the port of Great Yarmouth in
the south-east corner, the large County Town of Norwich, and in the far
north-west, another port – King’s Lynn, with a channel through to the
Wash. The only part of the County
well known to outsiders is in the southeast where you will find the beautiful
Norfolk Broads – a paradise for the amateur sailor whose antics can provide
much amusement for the locals!
The lonely North Norfolk coast can seem like the end of the Earth, and has
the same kind of atmosphere as is evinced by Erskine Childers in his novel The
Riddle of the Sands.
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Girls’ Chess in Norfolk
The
girls’ organizer for Norfolk is Mr Stephen Orton, and he always manages to
produce a competent team from this most rural of Counties. It is easy for those who live in places
such as London to under-estimate the difficulties of organizing junior chess
in a County such as Norfolk, where a journey from home from to the nearest
chess club may easily involve a 50-mile round trip!
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