Aldborough Ashill Aylsham Barsham Barwick Bawburgh Bawdeswell Belaugh Bircham Brandon Bylaugh Bressingham Brockdish Old Buckenham Buckenham Bunwell Burgh Cawston Chedgrave Cley-next-the-Sea Cockley Cley Colkirk Colney Coltishall Costessey Cranwich Cranworth Cressingham Crostwick Crostwight Deopham Dereham Docking Earsham Easton Erpingham Fersfield Foulden Foulsham Fransham Fulmodeston Garboldisham Gayton Guestwick Glandford Gooderstone Gressenhall Grimston Haddiscoe Hanworth Happisburgh Hardwick Hautbois Haveringland Hainford Helhoughton Hellesdon Hickling Hindolveston Houghton Hunstanton Keswick Lammas Leziate Letheringsett Mattishall Mautby Methwold Mundesley Mundford Neatishead Necton NORWICH Ovington Paston Pickenham Postwick Ranworth Raveningham Reepham Roughton Runhall Rushall Salhouse Salle Scottow Scoulton Shipdham Shotesham Sidestrand Sisland Snettisham Stanhoe Stiffkey Tacolnestone Tasburgh Thrigby Tivetshall Wacton Worstead WymondhamHover over or tap a placename to see how they were… and in many cases still are… pronounced in ‘Broad Norfolk’.
Pronouncing Norfolk Placenames
In Norfolk certain placenames are pronounced differently to the way they are spelled. The A-Z list below – taken from A Glossary of Dialectal Place-Nomenclature by Robert Charles Hope, 1883 – gives many examples of Norfolk placenames at variance with their spelling. ‘Rum Ol Nearmes’ is a poem about some of them…
