Picture 21 - Potter Heigham.

POTTER HEIGHAM. Through Potter Heigham, the very heart of the Broad district, runs the Thurne River, or Hundred Stream, a tributary of the Bure good sailing water. The river and its channels through Heigham Sounds and Hickling swarm with bream, rudd, perch, roach, pike, and eels. It is a fairly wide stream, with deep water, so that one can tack up close to the banks. Four miles pleasant sail from the mouth of the Thurne brings the yachtsman to Potter Heigham Bridge, a favourite boating centre, within easy reach of Hickling, the home of several rare aquatic plants. The Broads hereabouts are typical for wildness and solitude of reedy marsh and mere.

Dieses Kapitel ist Teil des Buches Colours of the Norfolk Broads