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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.

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Reedham swing bridge, which features in the 1987 Granada Television version of the Holmes novel The Sign of Four

The famous boat chase scene on the River Thames was mostly shot on the Norfolk Broads.

  • 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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