There’s always been a trend for successful city dwellers to move to the country – and with the Internet, and all its associated mobile communications devices, making the necessity to actually meet anyone in person smaller by the day, that trend is growing yearly. The great escape to the country continues apace, with a move to somewhere pleasant the ultimate statement of one’s financial success. Unfortunately, of course, all that really means is that great swaths of the English countryside are now occupied by row upon row of well-to-do city folk – making getting away from it all an increasingly tricky thing to do. Norfolk property is something of a saviour here – there are lots of it, and in places that seem a lot more out of the way than they really are. Perfect for that lifestyle move, where real rural living is perhaps a touch too much.

Living in the country for real means frequent power cuts, inadequate public services and astonishingly harsh winters. Getting away from it all means something rather different. Getting away from it all involves a nice place in a little village, perhaps; or by a river; with good access to a neighbouring town and not too far away from transport links to London. That’s Norfolk, and Norfolk property, all over – wonderful period houses, cottages, gatehouses and farms close enough to civilisation to make life easy, but far enough into the gorgeous fens and broads to make one’s surroundings a joy to behold.

One of the best things about property in Norfolk is its diversity. Most country retreats deliver a pretty uniform style of dwelling – dry stone walls and slate in Yorkshire, chocolate box cottages and beaches in Devon, old post offices in the Home Counties. Norfolk, which is the closest thing England has to a “world in one county” – certainly, with its hills, broads, fens, marshes, farmland, beaches and pretty villages, it can claim to be a country in one county – has a wide variety of dwellings available for sale and rent. Norfolk property is as varied as its landscapes – an escapee from the rat race can get hold of anything from a converted windmill or coast house to a delightful little cottage; a rambling farmhouse to a full on country mansion. Every shade of country luxury is here for the tasting – and a lot of it can be gotten hold of through dedicated country estate agents. Sowerbys, for example, is an estate agent that made a fairly big national name for itself by dealing only in Norfolk property, offering its prospective patrons village, town, seaside and riverside living in hundreds of diverse but equally arresting dwellings. Local knowledge, combined with plenty of agency experience, fits Sowerbys perfectly to make that escape to the country as easy as saying “yes, please”.

Unlike other counties, which really start to suffer from the ingress of large numbers of city folk into small areas of population, Norfolk is pretty much set up to thrive on it. Again, that’s because of the infinite variety of its landscape, which fosters more towns and so provides an infrastructure capable of thriving on incoming money, rather than being choked by it. Norfolk property, in its variety of location and type, ensure the newcomers are spread evenly through the county – and that means that getting away from it all, in the country in one county, is more possible than anywhere else in the UK.

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