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BBC Radio Norfolk SpecialFar From the Fogs - Sherlock Holmes in NorfolkSherlock Holmes in Norfolk

Some of the Norfolk places with connections to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective.

  • The Hill House pub in Happisburgh, North Norfolk
  • Paul Hayes with the blue plaque at the Hill House, commemorating Doyle's visit in 1903
  • The Sherlock Holmes corner inside the Hill House pub
  • North Walsham station, where Holmes and Watson arrive in The Dancing Men
  • Cromer Hall, which Conan Doyle visited in 1901
  • Paul Hayes with Roger Johnson from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London
  • John Stanforth, owner of the current building on the Rollesby Hall site
  • Roger Johnson in some of the surviving grounds of the old Rollesby Hall
  • The grounds of the old Rollesby Hall, possible inspiration for the hall at 'Donnithorpe'
  • Reedham swing bridge, which features in the 1987 Granada Television version of the Holmes novel The Sign of Four
  • Oxburgh Hall, which was a filming location for two different Sherlock Holmes productions in 1968
  • Jackson Pentland as Watson and Benjamin Lawlor as Holmes, in an open-air production of The Hound of the Baskervilles

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