Inbound
Moving to Norfolk
More people move into this county than out of it, and the half of the journey they plan least is the half that decides it.
Most moves into Norfolk come from London, Cambridge and the wider south-east, and they are usually the same trade: a smaller house and a bigger mortgage swapped for space, a garden and a good deal more outbuilding than anyone accounts for.
The move itself is straightforward at the origin end. Whatever your London street is doing — a controlled zone, a narrow terrace, four floors — is routine work and entirely solvable. It is the Norfolk end that decides the day, and it is the end nobody describes.
Send us the last half mile
A postcode and a photograph of the front of the house tell us almost nothing. What we need is the approach: the lane, the surface, the passing places and whether there is anywhere at the far end for a long vehicle to turn.
- Film the approach from the main road to the property, not just the property.
- Show passing places and whether there is a verge you could pull onto.
- Show where a vehicle could turn round at the far end.
- Note any low bridge, overhanging trees or narrow gateway.
- Say whether the surface is made up or a farm track.
A couple of minutes with a phone on the way back from a viewing is worth more than an hour on the telephone.
The thing that changes the quote
Outbuildings. A London three-bedroom house and a Norfolk three-bedroom house with a garage, a shed and a barn are not the same volume, and the difference is routinely discovered at the wrong end of the move.
If you are moving out of a property with them, open them before the survey. If you are moving into one, remember that the space will fill — but that is next year’s problem.
Where from
Where Norfolk moves come from
These are the origins we run most often. Anywhere else in the UK is entirely routine — the planning question is the same either way.
- London London to Norfolk removals
- Cambridge Cambridge to Norfolk removals
- Peterborough Peterborough to Norfolk removals
- Ipswich Ipswich to Norfolk removals
- Colchester Colchester to Norfolk removals
- Chelmsford Chelmsford to Norfolk removals
- Bedford Bedford to Norfolk removals
- Milton Keynes Milton Keynes to Norfolk removals
- Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds to Norfolk removals
- Lincoln Lincoln to Norfolk removals
Areas
Which road are you coming in on?
Norfolk is navigated by its A-roads because there are so few of them, and each one behaves differently enough to change how a move is run. Find yours.
The A11 — Thetford to Norwich
From Cambridge, London and the M11
Thetford · Attleborough · Wymondham · Hethersett · Norwich
A47The A47 — King’s Lynn across to Yarmouth
From Peterborough, the A1 and the Midlands
King’s Lynn · Swaffham · Dereham · Norwich north · Acle
A140The A140 — Diss and the south
From Ipswich, Suffolk and the A14
Diss · Long Stratton · Pulham Market · Harleston · Loddon
A148The A148 — the north coast
From King’s Lynn and the A47
Fakenham · Holt · Sheringham · Cromer · Wells-next-the-Sea
A149The Broads and the east
From Norwich, the A47 and the coast road
Wroxham · Hoveton · Horning · Ludham · Stalham
Two things worth checking before you commit
Broadband and mobile signal. Genuinely variable in rural Norfolk, and much easier to check before exchange than to solve afterwards. Stand in the garden and look at your phone.
Heating. A great many rural Norfolk properties are on oil rather than mains gas. The tank needs reading at completion and a supply arranging, and it is the sort of thing that is nobody’s job until the week you move in.
Tell us where you’re coming in from
Both addresses, roughly how much there is, and — if it’s rural — a photo or a clip of the last half mile. That last bit is worth more than the postcode.