To the east of Cambridgeshire and the north of Suffolk, Norfolk is the third county making up what is known as East Anglia. It’s a county that has traditionally relied as much on its fishing industry as it has agriculture, jutting out in the North Sea as it does, like the knobbly shoulder of the southern half of England.
It was here some 950,000 years ago that the first Britons arrived, setting up home near the village of Happisburgh in the north-east of the county, though understandably knowledge of these early people is scant.
The name Norfolk was coined by much later settlers, the Anglo-Saxons, and may have been a derivation of the words ‘Norse’ and ‘folk’ or have meant ‘northern people’,
