Black Horse Cottage, The Green, Hickling, Norfolk, NR12 0YA. Tel/Fax: 01692 598691 Email:

Tariff From £27.50 per person per night for double occupancy. From £30.00 per night for single occupancy. These prices include lodging and a choice of breakfast from the full English to the more healthy fruit, cereals and homemade bread. A deposit is payable at the time of booking. This is refundable up to 6 weeks prior to your stay minus a 5% administration fee. Information Black Horse Cottage Bed & Breakfast is open for most of the year, with the exception of Christmas and when we take a break ourselves. Hickling Broad is the largest of Norfolk’s Broads,covering more than 140 hectares. Hickling Broad National Nature Reserve is an internationally important wetland habitat comprising extensive areas of reed bed and grazing marsh.   Endangered species such as the swallowtail butterfly, marsh harrier, and bittern as well as summer visitors like the spoonbill, are to be found on its marshes and grassland.  Walking trails include the Swallowtail Trail and the Bittern Trail. The Weavers Way national long-distance path runs through the Reserve and past Black Horse Cottage. The visitor centre at the Reserve is open every day, Easter to September. The Broad is also extensively used for leisure and recreation with Hickling Windsurfing Club and Hickling Broad Sailing Club both based on the Broad. Both motor and sailing craft can be hired locally. The area is a haven for ornithologists, nature lovers and walkers with beautiful countryside all around. Also cyclists will love the quiet lanes, and there are a number of places, offering cycle hire. There are lovely sandy beaches at Sea Palling and Waxham, just a couple of miles away and there is access to the whole of Norfolk’s rich and diverse coastline. The village has shops and pubs, which serve food.

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