If you are looking for professional jewellers in or around Norfolk,
F. Hinds could be your choice!
You can visit any one of the following three F. Hinds shops in Norfolk:
Our staff are looking forward to seeing you at your next visit to one of our stores.
Something about Norfolk
Norfolk takes its name from the Old English 'Nordfolc', the 'northern folk' of the East Angles, in contrast to Suffolk.
Norfolk, the fifth largest non-metropolitan county by area, is mainly flat or gently undulating, with fenland in the west, the sluices at Denver controlling the flow of water from the Fens into the Wash.
Famous for
In medieval Norwich, with its wealth built on the wool tradee, there were 57 parish churches, and today there remain 32 medieval churches, the greatest concentration in Britain.
The Sandringham Estate, near King's Lynn, has been a private home of the Royal Family since 1862, initially for the Prince of Wales, to provide him with a country retreat away from the attractions of the big city. The original house soon was too small and the present building dates from 1870.
The world's largest sugar beet factory is at Wissington, near Downham Market - as well as producing sugar, bio-ethanol is made, and the waste heat used to warm an 11-ha glasshouse containing over a quarter of a million tomato plants, whose growth is also stimulated by receiving waste carbon dioxide.
Famous people
Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister (1721-42), born Houghton, 1676.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Admiral and victor at Trafalgar, born Burnham Thorpe, 1758.
Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, born Great Yarmouth, 1820.
King George VI, born York Cottage, Sandringham, 1895.
Sir James Dyson, inventor and entrepreneur, born Cromer, 1947.
Diana, Princess of Wales, born Park House, Sandringham, 1961.
Sir Matthew Pinsent, Olympic rowing champion, born Holt, 1970.