South Norfolk

Situated nearby to Loddon and Beccles our gardens surround Raveningham Hall, home to Sir Nicholas and Lady Bacon (and home to the Bacon family since 1735).

Enjoy the beauty of our varied and ever-changing floral seasons. The Gardens are set out as the Edwardian plans with large herbaceous borders surrounding a Victorian walled kitchen garden. In the 1960s the planting was enhanced by the inspiration of Priscilla, Lady Bacon an energetic plantswoman who collected many rare species from around the world transforming the garden over 50 years. The walled kitchen garden was brought back to full working order in the last 20 years and is now producing fruit and vegetables for the House. There is a fine late 19th century Boulton and Paul range of glasshouses, stocked conservatory and melon pits, all in working order.

A Millennium project by Nicholas Bacon to build a lake on the North side of the House is now firmly established as is an Arboretum that was planted after the destruction of a wood in the 1987 gale; this gave an opportunity to plant a large variety of trees and shrubs under a plan designed by the eminent plantsman Roy Lancaster. New additions to the garden include a Herb Garden, a Stumpery and a garden designed around Francis Bacon’s essays based on the passage of time.

The main specialities of the garden are snowdrops followed by bulbs in early spring, later in the season agapanthus are a main feature. Our Gardens are circa 10 acres all in a glorious 18th Century parkland setting with sculpture by Susan Bacon in and around the gardens. Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome.

Main Season Opening Times

We are open for both individual visits and Group Tours of 10-30 people.

Our Gardens are open throughout February to celebrate our famous snowdrop season from 11-4pm (closed Saturdays) and on set days May to September. Please see our website www.raveningham.com  for opening days, times & admission costs.

Friends of Raveningham Gardens

Become a Friend of our Gardens and for just £25 per person, per year, you could enjoy unlimited admission during our normal opening times as well as special visiting times all year round.

Please contact sonya@raveningham.com 01508 548480 for all enquiries, individual or group.

We look forward to welcoming you to our living garden.

Founded in 2005 Stuart Howitt Event Services work with a range of venues and companies across the UK. Our experience covers a vast number of performances including theatre shows, conferences, dance events, club nights and live music events covering all genres of music. 

We also have access to great acts, performers and DJ’s many of who we have worked alongside for many years and will add something special to any event. 

As we are a bespoke service we can supply services and infrastructure for any situation with our host of colleagues around the UK. 

Whatever the challenge, our team can bring creativity to your event and offer you a solution that will provide you exactly what you require, no matter how large or small your event quickly and reliably. We understand that no event is the same, which is why we tailor our service to each individual request.

Norfolk Holiday Properties are a self-catering holiday home agency based in the fine city of Norwich. Whatever you’re looking for our friendly team can be sure to help you find the perfect home for your getaway.

Our portfolio ranges from city centre apartments to rural large barn conversions to seaside cottages and everything in between. All our properties are hand-picked, so you can book with confidence that we will never advertise somewhere we wouldn’t want to stay in ourselves.

Many of our cottages are pet friendly, so there’s no need for your four-legged friends to miss out on all that our wonderful county as to offer either!

We understand that whilst your trip may only last a week, the memories you make with loved ones last a lifetime. That’s why we’re so passionate about everything that we do.

Our dedicated team love Norfolk and want to share that with the rest of the world. Norfolk is home to some of the most stunning blue flag sandy beaches in the UK, Holkham, Wells-next-the-Sea which is lined with colourful beach huts, Sea Palling to name a few. The Norfolk Broads make for a fabulous day out cruising along the rivers whilst the Historic Medieval city of Norwich offers independent shopping, history, fantastic cuisine and more. 

Our goal is to provide an attentive, flexible and above all, a refreshingly friendly approach to property management. As a result, many of our property owners have trusted us to care for their homes for many years and we now care for over 100 beautiful homes all over the county.

Stripped down and straight-talking creative marketing

Naked is a creative marketing agency who since 2002 has believed that professional quality design and marketing shouldn’t be out of reach for businesses with smaller budgets. Specialising in branding, design and digital marketing, we solve challenges for businesses with creativity and an open and honest, stripped down approach. It’s why we’re called Naked and its why our clients continue to work with us year after year.

Get noticed, get Naked

We're not what you might have come to expect from a creative agency. You won’t find flashy awards, bloated teams, meaningless jargon or fancy offices with a bowl of skittles and a pool table. Naked takes a stripped down, no-nonsense approach that is designed to suit small and medium businesses. We make it our mission to expose the greatness of every business we work with – using creative ideas, inspirational design and intelligent marketing.

A small but perfectly formed team

Our team of ‘nudists’ all come with a positive, can-do attitude, a passion for delivering better and an inbuilt dislike to blinding clients with science. Each with bundles of experience, they are the people that will not only do your work but deal with you directly too.

Marketing

Marketing theory is pretty pointless unless it can be translated into plans and campaigns that sing.  And that’s why you need to get Naked. We understand what will make the difference and how to give you the edge.

Branding

Who are you? How do you portray your business to the outside world, or your employees? What’s your look, feel, personality, tone of voice? We’ll take you through the fundamentals and bring ‘you’ to life.

Design

Great design has an impact, it inspires, it lives with you - and it sells. The perception of you and your communication lives or dies by the quality of your design. Don’t get it wrong. We’re here to make sure you get it right.

Digital

There’s no such thing as a marketing strategy without digital these days. But we won’t let it be the minefield everyone makes it out to be. Let us strip away the myths and make digital actually work for you.

For a leaner, no-nonsense approach to creative marketing, isn’t it time you got Naked?

If you’ve got a project or challenge in mind, call us on 01953 850211 or email steve@nakedmarketing.co.uk to arrange a no-obligation chat to find out how we can help.

You’ll find us at 18 Market Place, Hingham, Norfolk NR9 4AF or online at www.nakedmarketing.co.uk

Toilets+ are the leading provider of portable toilet and luxury toilet trailer hire in the South, East and Central England. With 6 regional depots covering 20 counties across England, wherever you need a loo, they will be there for you. 

The portable toilet range includes standard temporary toilets with hand sanitiser, chemical toilets with a hot water hand wash, mains connected toilets, 6-bay urinals and disabled toilets, similar style to the standard portable toilet but with greater accessibility. All of these can be provided under short or long-term hire, to suit your sanitation needs. 

First-class customer service is top priority at Toilets+, each toilet is steam-cleaned and replenished with toilet roll and hand sanitiser before being delivered by one of our 80 drivers. When you've finished your business, we'll collect the toilet as soon as we can. 

For events, as well as portable toilets, we now have luxury toilet trailers available for hire in Norfolk. They vary in size from a 3+1 for events up to 275 guests, the 2+1 caters for up to 175 guests and our small, but elegantly designed 1+1 unit is great for up to 75 guests. 

Whatever your requirement or location, contact our friendly team today on 0800 606 100, they will be more than happy to help. 

Norfolk Woodburners provide a bespoke service to its customers, before any purchase of a stove or woodburner is made, an in-home visit is conducted to discuss the customer’s individual requirements and to check the suitability of each property for their chosen product.

All site surveys and consultations are free of charge. Our quotations are provided within 24 hours of our free site visit. There is no one else in Norfolk that provides a better service for the supply and installation of wood burners, log burners and multifuel stoves.

Hetas registered, Norfolk Woodburners provide the best quality classic and contemporary wood burners, wood stoves, log burners and multifuel stoves. They are main dealers in Norfolk for Aga, Hunter, Parkray, Broseley, Di Lusso, Avalon, Termatech, Eco Ideal, Woolly Mammoth, Carron and Cleanburn stoves, all offering excellent, efficient stoves to heat your home.

To help clean up the air in Norfolk and as part of our Scrappage Scheme, Norfolk Woodburners are proud to offer you up to £250 off a new woodburner and flue installation. Switch from having no warranty on your old inefficient, polluting woodburner or fireplace to enjoying a brand new super-efficient, more environmentally friendly woodburner with up to 10 years warranty included. Use less fuel, saving you money! There’s never been a better time to trade in your old polluting woodburner or open fire grate.

Here at Norfolk Woodburners we supply and fit small wood burners, large wood burners, freestanding stoves, inset stoves, multi-fuel stoves, classic and contemporary stoves, pretty much anything you are looking for! We also design and build fireplaces and make alterations to existing fireplaces.

Norfolk Woodburners also offer a service plan for each log burner that they supply and fit.

The annual service plan covers sweeping the chimney and issuing a Certificate, checking the stove rope and replacing if necessary, checking the condition of the woodburner / multi fuel stove, smoke testing the appliance and checking the operation of the Carbon Monoxide alarm. Most woodburners require an annual service to maintain their warranty, by offering such a plan they are helping customers maintain the warranty on their stoves. It also ensures that their chimney is being swept by a qualified chimney sweep’

Contact the Norfolk Woodburners team today to discuss how we can help with the sale and installation of your next wood burner. Norwich Office  01508 498393 . Fakenham Office 01328 700161 or email us at norfolkwoodburners@outlook.com

We are also dealers of The Solo Stove Bonfire and Yukon are unlike any other fire pit you've ever seen. The best part? Nearly no smoke and minimal ash left over!

Not only are the Yukon and Bonfire easy to clean up, but they won’t leave you smelling like a campfire. The Solo Stove Yukon is the largest, designed for sitting around on a patio or deck, keeping warm, chatting with friends, whilst the Solo Stove Bonfire is smaller and designed for smaller outdoor spaces or to take with you on trips away. Both are available from us and both include a stand and FREE delivery. Contact us to place your order now.

Solo Bonfire Fire Pit with stand £365 FREE delivery