Agar Farm

There may be marshes directly accessible from Agar Farm, but a short drive will get you to more: Salthouse Marshes (10 minutes’ drive) is a popular birdwatching spot with boardwalks and hides. This is also a handy launchpad for springing over to Norfolk seaside towns, which have been used as holiday destinations since Victorian times. Cromer (25 minutes’ drive) has sandy beaches and a Victorian pier with a famed end-of-pier theatre, the Pavilion Theatre. Go and see the beach huts in Sheringham (20 minutes), and when you’re tired and complaining of walking, rest your feet on the heritage steam railway to Holt to go and check out the rail models at the William Marriott Museum. Holkham (20 minutes) is another fine local spot, with a windswept beach, salt marshes and dunes all alongside a historic stately home with a deer park and a six-acre walled garden. You may very well feel like you’ve stepped back in time.