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A short two miles above the broad, and approached by a delightful part of the river, where Hoveton church stands on high ground beyond the coot-haunted ronds, and the banks are decked with hemp agrimony and other riverside wild flowers, is Wroxham Bridge, the halting-place of most voyagers up the Bure. But the river is navigable to small craft for some miles farther, indeed, to Aylsham, though the stream is very narrow in places, and encounters with wherries call for careful navigation. Wroxham church, which has a Norman doorway, should be visited before you commence your return voyage or continue your inland cruise. The distance from Wroxham Bridge to Aylsham is about eight miles. The river winds through some most charming scenery, and. brings you in touch with some very pretty villages and not a few places of antiquarian and historical interest. The chief of these have been dealt with in the road trip from Norwich to Aylsham, Blickling, and Cromer.
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