{"id":9168,"date":"2015-07-17T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-wymondham-norfolk\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T06:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T23:59:35","slug":"lets-move-to-wymondham-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-wymondham-norfolk\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Wymondham, Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s on the road to nowhere \u2013 in a good wayWhat\u2019s going for it? The great thing about Norfolk is that it\u2019s not on the way to anywhere. This can present a problem when you have people to see, places to go and single carriageways blocked by combine harvesters. On the plus side, like other spots on the\u00a0way to nowhere (Humberside, Lincolnshire, Cornwall et al), Norfolk accumulates all sorts of odd bits and bobs like a gigantic back-of-the-sofa \u2013 including fabulous places like Wymondham that are slightly disconnected from the rest of humanity but which might, elsewhere, have succumbed to Starbucks, pulled pork pizzas and other modern ills. It has allowed the town to retain a higgledy streetscape of monastic fragments and Georgian cottages, spiked with a bohemian, eccentric edge. Even saying the word \u201cWymondham\u201d (pronounced \u201cWindum\u201d) is counterintuitive. The half-ruined, two-towered abbey haunts the skyline like something from an MR James story. Lecturers from the University of East Anglia lurk in bookshops. Poets and writers escape here \u2013 not an obvious retreat, but that\u2019s the point. Nobody comes to Wymondham unless they have to or want to.The case against Not much. It\u2019s quite a delight. But it\u2019s not the place to live if you like Starbucks and pulled pork pizzas. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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