Barroway Drove is a village in Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, England

England

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. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

King's Lynn and West Norfolk

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The village lies on the eastern edge of the Fens

The Fens

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 and is notable for its complete lack of amenities and poor quality roads.

Barroway Drove Village Hall is the central hub of the community. It is the venue of the weekly auction, the fortnightly Play bus

Play bus

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 visit and also takes on the role of polling station on election days.

In 2007, Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...

filmed a number of scenes for his popular ITV television series Kingdom in the village.