The supposed flatness of the Norfolk landscape is noted in Noël Coward's Private Lives — " Very flat, Norfolk " — and the history of its waterways and drainage forms the backdrop to Graham Swift's novel Waterland.

The Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads.

At Bungay, the historic head of navigation, the Waveney forms a wide oxbow meander, carrying with it the Norfolk / Suffolk border.

Today the village forms part of the civil parish of Fritton and St Olaves, which in turn is within the district of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.

Salhouse Broad covers an area of and is home to many forms of wildlife including the Norfolk hawker dragonfly and the swallowtail butterfly.

Easton forms the northeastern corner of Bristol County, where the county intersects with Plymouth County to the east and Norfolk County to the north.

Combined with the Norfolk Coast Path, it forms the Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path National Trail, one of 15 National Trails in England and Wales, and the two paths together run for.

The Marriott's Way is a long-distance footpath and bridleway that forms part of the National Cycle Network ( NCN ) ( Route1 ) and is open to walkers, cyclists and horse riders between Hellesdon and Aylsham, Norfolk, England.

The tidal river forms the border between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for about.

Below Peterborough, the river forms the border between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk for about.

Even today, the area is still prone to flooding in areas close to the River Dove, a tributary of the River Waveney which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk.

The Peddars Way from Knettishall Heath to Holme-next-the-Sea forms part of the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail, which was opened as a Long Distance Route in 1986.

Various forms of the name, the earliest in Anglo-Saxon charters are Icenhilde Weg or Icenilde Weg, designate roads from the borders of Norfolk through Cambridgeshire, Bucks, Berks, Hants, and Wilts into Dorset.

Simcoe now forms Ward 5 of Norfolk County.

He also secured construction of a railroad through his home county, which now forms part of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

Other orangeries in the hands of the National Trust are at Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire ; Ickworth House, Suffolk, where it forms part of the garden front of the dwelling wings ; Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire, a central feature on the late-eighteenth-century terraces ; Saltram House, Devon, probably to a Robert Adam design ; Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland ; and Blickling, Norfolk.

Throughgood ( 1604 – 1640 ) was an early leader and is widely credited for the naming of various forms of Norfolk County and the Lynnhaven River in the earliest colonial days of the 17th century.

They came in many forms, from tiny little single-note shriekers ( called banshees on the Pennsylvania Railroad ) to larger plain whistles with deeper tones ( a deep, plain train whistle is the " hooter " of the Norfolk & Western, used on their A-and Y-class Mallet locomotives ).

* Lord Nelson: Quite a common name ( in various forms ) throughout England but especially in Norfolk, where the admiral was born.

Recorded in rural Norfolk and urban Los Angeles, this has a quieter, more introspective tone than T-T's previous work and focuses on personal themes.

In 1680, the Province of New Hampshire was formally separated from Massachusetts, with Norfolk County forming the core.

* Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Known as Northrop Grumman Newport News ( NGNN ), and later Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News ( NGSB-NN ), the company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads.

** The westbound tube AKA the first tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel linking to Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia opens at a cost of $ 44 million dollars.

* The Virginian-Pilot, the daily newspaper of Norfolk, Virginia and the surrounding Hampton Roads metro area

Due to transportation and other considerations which made the site of Jamestown impractical, the celebration was held at Sewell's Point in Norfolk, Virginia, on the harbor of Hampton Roads.

The MEAC would find stability in membership with the addition of two HBCUs in Virginia, Hampton University and Norfolk State University in 1995 and 1997 respectively.

This area, known as " America's First Region ", also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, as well as other smaller cities, counties and towns of Hampton Roads.

The area includes the Virginia cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Williamsburg, and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, and York, as well as the North Carolina county of Currituck.

The city of Virginia Beach has a lower crime rate than the other regional cities of Hampton Roads, Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, which all exceed national average crime rates.

After the Civil War, under the leadership of former Confederate General William " Billy " Mahone, the Southside Railroad was rebuilt, and in 1870, was combined with the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to form Mahone's Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), which stretched 400 miles across the southern tier of Virginia from Norfolk on Hampton Roads to Bristol.

Directly opposite Norfolk, the city of Portsmouth also has miles of waterfront land on the Elizabeth River as part of the harbor of Hampton Roads.

Newport News / Williamsburg International Airport, located in Newport News, and Norfolk International Airport, in Norfolk, both cater to passengers from Hampton Roads.

Newport News, Hampton, Virginia | Hampton, Portsmouth, Virginia | Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia | Norfolk, Virginia from space, July 1996 ( Newport News is seen in the upper left quadrant )

The area includes the Virginia cities of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Williamsburg, and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, and York, as well as the North Carolina county of Currituck.

Public universities that are outside but near Hampton include Christopher Newport University, Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University, and The College of William and Mary.

One of the cities Hampton Roads, Chesapeake was formed in 1963 by a political consolidation of the city of South Norfolk with the former Norfolk County, which dated to 1691.

Extending all the way from the rural border with North Carolina to the harbor area of Hampton Roads adjacent to the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Chesapeake is located on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and has miles of waterfront industrial, commercial and residential property.

The county is part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area based around Norfolk, Virginia.

The Tidewater Railway was chartered to cross Virginia from the West Virginia border near Glen Lyn, Virginia in Giles County by way of Roanoke and Suffolk to port at Sewell's Point on Hampton Roads near Norfolk, Virginia.

Both railroads were planned and built by the team of mining manager and civil engineer William Nelson Page and industrialist and financier Henry Huttleston Rogers, and added a third Hampton Roads coal exporting railhead to the existing Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( with coal piers at Newport News ) and the Norfolk and Western Railway's similar facilities at Norfolk's Lambert's Point.

It was founded in 1888 as a central location to house steam locomotive repair shops for the Norfolk and Western Railroad ( now called Norfolk Southern ) which has a rail yard there for east-west trains carrying Appalachian coal to Hampton Roads for export abroad, and the street pattern was laid out at that time.

Unfortunately for Claremont, the A & D decided to connect its western leg with a new eastern terminus in West Norfolk on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and the line to Claremont, which was never standard-gauged, went into semi-abandonment.

With the help of local leaders in Norfolk, ( and more funds from Rogers ), a route was obtained set which passed around the City of Norfolk ( and the N & W ) in a wide, 13-mile long circular path through rural Norfolk County to be headed almost due west again when it reached the site for a new coal pier on the harbor at Hampton Roads at Sewell's Point.