The Gables
From£289,950
- 2-4 beds
- 2 baths
- 921-1,005 sq ft
Development in Attleborough, Breckland NR17 2JX
HillLiving in Breckland
Living in Breckland, a local authority area in Norfolk: its new homes, prices and builders, the neighbourhoods, schools and people, and what buying here costs, from today's listings and the official records.
- New homes for sale
- 43
- Developments
- 7
- Middle price
- £327,475
- Builders
- 6
Listings updated 12 Nov 2026
The GablesHill
Britannia GrangeTaylor Wimpey
Heritage ParkBennett HomesAbout Breckland
Breckland is a district in Norfolk, named after the Breckland landscape, the sandy, gorse-covered heath that spans south Norfolk and north Suffolk. Thetford is its largest town and Dereham is where the council sits, and the district also takes in the towns of Attleborough, Swaffham and Watton along with many villages and the countryside around them.
People have lived at Thetford since the Iron Age. Its Norman castle was raised on an Iron Age fort at Castle Hill, and the ruins of the Cluniac priory that Roger Bigod founded in 1104 still stand. The town's flint buildings stood in for Walmington-on-Sea in the BBC series Dad's Army. In Dereham, the Church of St Nicholas and Bishop Bonner's cottage came through the fires of 1581 and 1659 that destroyed many of its old buildings, and its Grade II listed windmill dates from 1836. Swaffham's large market place has a market cross presented to the town in 1783.
Thetford grew up at a crossing of the River Little Ouse, and Thetford Forest spreads across the Norfolk and Suffolk border on its western side. Forestry England describes the forest as a patchwork of pine woodland, heathland and broadleaved trees, and it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The Breckland line between Cambridge and Norwich runs through Thetford Forest and stops at Thetford, which also sits on the A11 between Norwich and London. The A47 bypasses Swaffham and Dereham.
Written by NewHomeSearch and checked on 11 Nov 2026 against: Wikipedia: Breckland District; Wikipedia: Thetford; Wikipedia: Dereham; Wikipedia: Swaffham; Wikipedia: Breckland line; Forestry England: Thetford Forest
