5 - to Cley

Distance: 11.1 km/7 miles Getting there: Time: 2hr 48mins By Bus - Type: Walk the Coast Path in 7 stages, part 5 CH = Coasthopper: Accessible by public transport King's Lynn to along the coast. This walk offers (Summer: 1/2 hourly, rest of year: hourly, amazing views over alterations on Sundays) From : internationally Norfolk Green’s x29 important stretches service to then onto Wells to meet of saltmarsh. the CH. Binoculars a must as By Rail - The CH service is accessible from King’s there are plenty of Lynn and Cromer/ birds. stations.

Disabled Parking: This walk takes you past the villages prosperity is Blakeney Guildhall the Stiffkey - National Trust of Stiffkey and , and house of a wealthy merchant in the car park before marsh, through Blakeney and Cley. 14th or 15th centuries, with a brick no disabled spaces, very vaulted undercroft. rough ground. Morston was called ‘Merstuna’ in the Morston - The National Domesday Book of 1086. This Old The was realigned in Trust car park has English name means ‘farmstead by 2006 due to the impeding danger of disabled spaces at the the marsh’ and is particularly the former channel of the River quay. Blakeney - There is a appropriate. The church at Morston Glaven being blocked by the natural car park at the quay, is mostly 13th century, the tower was southwards migration of Blakeney however be aware of tide patched up with brick in 1743 after Spit, and more recently also times as it can flood. being struck by lightning. because of shingle that had become Additional Info: The villages of Blakeney, Cley and displaced following storms in 1993 Note to wheelchair users make up the Glaven ports, and in 1996, resulting in flooding of regarding the CH bus : around the mouth of the River the adjacent Blakeney Freshes Norfolk Green can’t Glaven. The gradual growth of the Special Protection Area and the assure that all buses are shingle spit known as village of Cley, the Environment fully wheelchair protected the wide estuary at the Agency decided to cut a new accessible during busy mouth of the river, which was an channel to the south of the old one. periods. If you need to make sure that your bus ideal site for a harbour. This estuary The saline lagoons, grazing marsh will be accessible, then has gradually silted up to form the and reedbeds here support call them on tel.:01553 salt marshes that now attract bird wintering and migrating wildfowl and 776980 24 hours before watchers and walkers, rather than waders, as well as bittern, marsh you travel. ships. harrier and the bearded tit. Contact us and let It was during the medieval period ’s Cley Marsh us know how you’ve that Blakeney became a prosperous visitor centre is on the outskirts of got on: port. the village and well worth a visit. www.nationaltrail.co.uk Produced by National Trail office Find out more here: 09/10 The only reminder of this medieval www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk 5 - Stiffkey to Cley

Terrain: Grassy ith footpaths close to marshes, muddy during / after wet weather, with

each the the each some loose stones, quays and floodbanks which do get muddy during/after wet weather Steps:

• Close to Morston quay over the floodbank. • From the Morston floodbank down on the approach to Blakeney. • Informal steps down into Cley village from the floodbank. Maps: Ordnance Survey Explorer 251 Landranger 132 & 133

Public Toilets: Morston Quay - No At Blakeney, cross the quay and up on to the tothe and on up the quay cross AtBlakeney, care w take into Cley, down steps the informal Walk footways no asthere are the village in traffic Take the steps over the floodbank then across the then across floodbank over the steps the Take of thetinkling and with boats strewn grassland Trust the towards National maritime paraphernalia the then takes The path centre at visitor Morston. floodbank towards . Cley towards floodbank disabled,

County Council. Licence No: 100019340.2010 Blakeney Quay (National Trust) - fence. Continue on the gorse lined path until you r until you path thelined gorse on fence. Continue floodbank. floodbank. Blakeney. towards eastward floodbank    Disabled, open until 9pm

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Stiffkey Stores & Post Office (t:830489) Serves coffee and cake, open: Summer: 8.30am-5pm, (Sun 9-3) closes Sun & Wed at midday in winter.

© Crown Copyright. rightsAll reserved. Norfolk Morston - (01263) The Anchor Inn

(t: 741392)Serves food.

Blakeney - Various cafés, pubs, restaurants. See more at: www.blakeneyonline.co.uk

Cley next the Sea - Tea rooms, pubs, a

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