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Cantley celebrates opening of new riverside amenity
Norfolk Broads new addition
Saturday 18 September 11am – 4pm
The village of Cantley is celebrating the opening of a new £300,000 riverside amenity on Saturday September 18th with a day of music, sailing and entertainment.
The derelict village staithe, which won village green status five years ago, has been transformed into an attractive community area with moorings, fishing facilities and one of only two slipways on the River Yare which will open up the river to a wide cross section of river users.
It has been redeveloped through an ambitious partnership project which has received investment both financially and in kind from the Broads Authority, Broadland Environmental Services Ltd (BESL), British Sugar, Broadland District Council, the Environment Agency, Inland Waterways Association, Cantley Parish Council and two landfill communities fund schemes, Biffaward and WREN.
The redevelopment of the staithe has been carried out by BESL as part of its flood defence work along the River Yare.
BESL has rolled back the flood bank to open up an extra piece of land which British Sugar is leasing to the parish council for a peppercorn rent and which has been grassed. It has also built a much needed slipway and riverside piling which has been fitted with safety ladders and chains.
A £35,000 floating pontoon will accommodate seven permanent moorings and two moorings for visitors using the slipway, which lies between two water ski zones. Six of the moorings have already been taken up by local people. The pontoon is available for fishing and part of it is specially designed to take wheelchairs. The pontoon was financed by a £20,000 grant from the Broads Authority’s Sustainable Development Fund, a grant from Broadland District Council and a donation from Hardley 100 Club.
A section of dyke has been filled in to create a shingled turning area for the slipway and the 300 yard road to the staithe has been resurfaced.
The Broads Authority has built picnic tables and seating on the village green and planted a mixture of native trees, silver birch, alder and weeping willows, provided by Broadland District Council. The staithe will be managed by the newly formed Cantley Staithe Charitable Association which aims to promote the safe use of the river for everyone.
Robert Beadle, Chairman of the Parish Council, said: “For many years we have sat by the river with no access to it. But at last we have a beautiful and safe area where people can sit and picnic by the river, fish and launch their boats. I am sure it will give many years of pleasure and will be a facility that the residents of Cantley can be proud of.”
The staithe will be opened on Saturday 18 September at 11am by the chairman of the Broads Authority, Dr Stephen Johnson. A day of fun and celebration will continue until 4pm against the spectacle of traditional Broads sailing cruisers racing in the Yare Navigation Race to Breydon Water and back.
Bands, a folk group singing sea shanties and clog dancing, pupils from Cantley School dressed as pirates and St Edmunds Youth Orchestra from Acle will perform outside the nearby Reedcutter Public House. The RNLI will be demonstrating their South Broads lifeboat and Broads Beat, the Broads Authority and Whitlingham Outdoor Centre will be represented among the stands.
Parking will be limited and the public are encouraged to travel by train to Cantley Railway Station which is just 300 yards from the staithe.
Norfolk Broads Holidays and Wild life information
The peaceful Norfolk Broads, National Park lies to the east of the cathedral city of Norwich, with 30 calm, shallow lakes fringed with reeds, alder or willow. They are interlinked by a series of rivers and man-made dykes to form around 200 miles of sailable waterways in serene countryside.
Due to the unique nature of the area, the Norfolk Broads and its slow-moving rivers and silent marshes make for an exquisite place to explore our native wildlife and catch migrating birds that visit the area on route as a respite from their mammoth journey south.
Hickling Broads is the largest of the freshwater lakes and research in the 1950s lead archaeologist’s to believe that it was man made in the medieval times when the locals dug out the peat from the marshland.
The Norfolk Wherry sailing barges were once a famous site, with their shallow keel and huge red sails transporting the local goods from Great Yarmouth up to the city of Norwich along the Broads rivers.
The centre of the Broads is Wroxham, with a local rail and bus link to Norwich and the facility to hire out Broads Cruisers and Sailing Boats on either a daily or holiday basis. Hiring a boat and taking a trip up the river is really the only true way to explore and experience the natural beauty and breath-taking skies of the region.
The broads are mainly a fresh water environment, where the likes of the British Otter population seem to be making a welcome come back because of the quality of the water and the surrounding landscape. The marshland and reed beds amongst the waterways of the Norfolk Broads make the area a happy hunting ground for many kinds of birds. Mosquito repellent is highly recommended during the summer season as the unique flora attracts a variety of insects, dragonflies and butterflies.
The coast is also a well earned rest for migrating birds on route from the north flying to warmer climates in autumn and on their way back in spring. Two migrant waders from the north are the Knot, and the bar-tailed Godwit, which gather in huge flocks on the mud flats on the coastal edges of the Norfolk Broads. A real special treat for all birdwatchers to come and enjoy the amazing range of birds; whilst cruising down the rivers of the Norfolk Broads on a boat.
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Norfolk Broads Boat Hire – From Royalls
Great Blog from our friends at Royalls Boat yard ……..
Rowed SHOVELER up through the bridge just after 10am to where ROYALL CONTINENTAL lay at Porter and Hayletts yard taking on water. Her crew wanted a couple of things clarified, following which I dropped the drogue over the punt’s stern and towing her behind motored the cruiser down with plenty of room under the arch to moor outside the marina as the supplies officer wished to go ashore for bread.
I left them, rowing in diminishing sunshine downriver against a stiff breeze. Swerving around a Richardsons cruiser laying awkwardly with a tow boat lashed alongside, all was quickly revealed as the cruisers bow was deeply impaled through a massive hole on the corner of “Carisbrook’s” quay heading, quite a crowd having gathered on the lawn to gawp at the damage.
Laying to a buoy in the first left hand bay on Wroxham broad I sat and watched the idling wildfowl which included the following;
1 male pochard (poker), 1 male gadwall (greyduck), 1 egyptian goose, 1 common turn, 2 common gulls, 2 canada geese, 6 greylag geese, 2 crested grebes, 6 back headed gulls (kitty’s), 1 mallard, 1 coot.
The grey and Canada geese snoozed on half submerged logs waking occasionally to loudly honk at a well camouflaged gadwall lowly quacking as he swam up and down the bank through the undergrowth, the pochard and grebes being far less intimidated swam and dived very close to where SHOVELER gently swung on the breeze. A large common gull standing on a tilting buoy alternately sleeping, drinking and screeching at his airborne mate gave quite the seaside feel until he departed upset no doubt by the hooting passenger trip boats.
Surprisingly few yachts were under sail, a couple of white boats drifted into shore under a salvo of loud bangs to be replaced by three or four of the cruiser class setting a large spread of sail and eventually too, SHOVELER rigged her tiny tan gunning sail, although the expected gentle sail home not materialising the crew had once more to make shift with the oars back upstream through the now busy traffic.
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Changes in taste and style for the U.K tourist
Look for and buying holidays is great fun, planning that all important getaway creates a lot of anticipation and excitement.
In the current economic situation most people need to maximise the value for money in every pound spent. While mount “Staycation” in Iceland (I cant find it’s name anywhere, so I will call it Mount “Staycation” since travel abroad is so difficult currently) pours ash clouds over Europe.
It looks like many people are having to reconsider overseas trips, while I might launch into the Myriad reasons for coming to the Norfolk Broads this year. I find myself checked by the weather which seems intent on squeezing every last possible drop of winter this year.
Wait a moment though as we cruise along the Broads from Norfolk to Suffolk with our sliding roof closed for cover. We can still have fun in a very English sense reminiscing about childhood trips to wind swept rain soaked sea sides. The weather may not have changed much but the choice of attractions on offer has. In Norfolk stop by the Eco Tech Centre get up close to the giant wind turbine. Visit Norwich now and witness the mechanical fire breathing dragon in Eaton Park.
Or find one of the many great pubs along the Norfolk Broads and enjoy food and drink in front of an open fire.
Of course what comes next is a three week heat wave with temperatures above 30 and blue skies.
In which case my next blog will be about appropriate levels of sun block whilst out on the water.
Either way speak to someone with years of local knowledge for Boat hire on the Norfolk Broads
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Hire a Boat on the Norfolk & Suffolk Broads
In recent posts you will have been well aware of our push for boating holidays on the broads…
Today I was struck as the sun came out this morning truly bathing the green swathes of Norfolk in amazing shades and different hues.
You see the secret of Norfolk & Suffolk is not that we have the most breath taking scenery see the Lakes, see Yorkshire, see Scotland and Wales. What makes the Norfolk experience so great what stands our holidays apart from all parts of the country is I suspect the ability of the place to swallow you whole and emerse you in a sun drenched landscape which may only be 30 mins away from the nearest city or town. But feels like it is the other side of world.
You see once you have stayed under those endless blue skies and slowly floated along a broad or river, all the complications of life can be left behind. Your time is your own so you set the pace and the agenda.
Like many other who have lived in the region for some time I have learned the secret of the place is take your time and let no one rush you. On the broads you are a million miles from stress.
So think about boating this year, as a couple, as a family or a group of friends…
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