Broads
THE NORFOLK, a series of English inland lakes, usually said to be formed by the widening or broadening out of the rivers. The broads par excellence are those up the Bure or North river (which empties itself into the sea at Yarmouth), and its tributaries, the Ant and the Thurne. On the Bure leaving the comparatively hilly land N. of Wroxham, it enters a flat, marshy country very little above highwater mark, and right and left of it are the well known broads of Wroxham, Salhouse, Hoveton, Horning and Ranworth. The first (Wroxham) is the largest and deepest, there being sailing water for large boats all over it. Up the Ant there is the fine broad at Barton and another at Sutton; but the latter is fast closing up. Up the Thurne there is a very large broad at Hickling, and two others at Martham and Horsey, and these are all of note in the E. part of the county, on which it is possible to sail; for the three fine broads at Ormesby, Rollesby and Filby, though connected and forming a chain, have no practicable outlet to the river. The Yale, or Norwich, river has no broads on which sailing is possible. Near Lowestoft, on the Waveney, is Oulton Broad. The broads have grown greatly in favor with holiday makers in recent years.