Picture 49 - Thorpe Reach.

THORPE REACH. Few cities are more beautifully situated than Norwich, through which winds the meandering Wensum, while the waterways on nearly every hand, penetrating or bounding its pleasant suburbs, almost enclose, as in a silvery cincture, the capital of the county of the Broads. Embarking at Foundry Bridge, skirting Carrow, and thence round the bend, the visitor enters the beautiful stretch of water known as Thorpe Reach one of the crowning glories of the gentle Yare about one-and-a-half miles from Norwich. The village runs alongside the river, which, from its picturesqueness, has been designated “the Richmond of Norfolk.“