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Spoof DJ Alan Partridge ah-ahing his way through a show on Radio Norwich is a stereotype this beautiful medieval city doesn’t deserve. Book a Norwich hotel in the city that produced Booker Prize winners, helped to educate Stephen Fry and Horatio Nelson and has a school of painters named after it. And we haven’t mentioned Colman’s mustard or Delia yet.

Norwich neighbourhoods

From your Norwich hotel, explore the hilly city with its serpentine cobbled lanes that escaped the ravages of the industrial revolution. Based on the River Wensum the area around the Norman cathedral leads to the pretty Pull’s Ferry, a landing stage with relaxing riverside walks. The castle sits on a central mound above theMall shopping centre. West you’ll find Maddermarket Theatre and Market Place. University of East Anglia and Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts are on the western outskirts.

Shopping in Norwich

Norwich is the only city centre outside London with four national department stories, and it also has its own award-winning independent, Jarrold. The winding medieval back streets of Norwich Lanes have eclectic independent and specialist stores. Its Teddy Bear Shop must be seen to be believed. Chapelfield shopping centre is anchored by the House of Fraser while the family-friendly Mall has a crèche. The rows of colourful striped canopied stalls at Norwich Market make it one of England’s largest. Nearby, inside the ornate Royal Arcade is the famous Colman’sMustard Shop.

Eating and drinking in Norwich

There’s been an alehouse on the site of Bishopgate’s Adam and Eve pub since 1249. While eating the Elizabethan pork spare a thought for Lord Sheffield, hacked to death nearby in 1549. His ghost apparently fondles diners’ hair. Cobbled Elm Hill, with more Tudor houses than the City of London, has bars and restaurants so authentically olde English you’ll expect to run into a highwayman. Celebrity chef Delia Smith, co-owner of Norwich City football club, has her Restaurant and Bar at the Carrow Road ground serving her favourite recipes.

Culture and nightlife in Norwich

Norwich Playhouse is one of the top comedy venues in East Anglia but also stages acclaimed drama and musicals. The internationally regarded Maddermarket Theatre based in a former Catholic chapel was the first to stage Shakespeare’s plays with their full text in the 1920s. Now it showcases new playwrights as well as traditional classics and concerts. The Norwich Arts Centre is a live music venue, concert hall and theatre also based at an old church whose atmosphere is bolstered by tombstones in the floor. And on that bombshell…

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