Wherryman’s Way

37½ miles/60km

Wherries were the articulated lorries of their day, carrying cargo along the reedy broadland waterways of Norfolk and Suffolk. And it’s for these gaffrigged trading barges’ hardy crews that the Wherryman’s Way is named. It follows the meandering River Yare from Norwich to the sea at Great Yarmouth. Punctuating the meadows, marshes and mudflats are statues celebrating bygone local characters like ‘Billy Bluelight’, who raced pleasure steamers to Norwich on foot. A new guidebook was published this year.

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