6. Cley to Weybourne

6 - Cley to Weybourne

Distance: 7 km/5.6 miles Getting there: Time: 2hr 24mins By Bus - Type: Walk the Norfolk Coast Path in 7 stages, part 6 CH = Coasthopper: Accessible by public transport King's Lynn to Cromer along the coast. The shingle on this (Summer: 1/2 hourly, section may be hard on rest of year: hourly, alterations on Sundays) your legs but this walk From Norwich: gives you the space to Norfolk Green’s x29 breathe, the coastline service to Fakenham here is dramatic as the then onto Wells to meet the CH. sea drops deeply away By Rail - The CH service from the shingle shore, is accessible from King’s breathtaking. Plenty of Lynn and Cromer/ birds and wildlife. Sheringham stations. The Poppy line steam train Cley-next-the-Sea Norfolk. there are 9 barrows in which runs from Following the reallignment of the total and have so far avoided the Sheringham to Holt links

River Glaven the beach and bank here plough so have survived remarkably to the Norwich line,.

has changed dramatically. The intact. Disabled Parking: elements have taken over Cley next the Sea - Pay The Muckleborough collection - is and display parking at During the first and second world just off the route here and is the the beach wars, the threat of German invasion UK’s largest privately owned Salthouse - Weybourne - The beach on this part of the coast was very military museum. Check out their car park is pay and real, many remains of this fear can website or call for admission prices display. still be seen today along this section and opening times Additional Info: from pillboxes, gun emplacements, a www.muckleburgh.co.uk (t:01263 Note to wheelchair users tank trap to scaffolding obstructions 588210). regarding the CH bus : on the beach to prevent unwanted Norfolk Green can’t landings. Weybourne has evidence of assure that all buses are Look out for a very rare Alan population since palaeolthic times, fully wheelchair Williams cast evidence of which has been accessible during busy iron turret unearthed in the cliffs . There is periods. If you need to which stands evidence of Roman activity in the make sure that your bus will be accessible, then on the edge of area and various finds from the call them on tel.:01553 a hill at Saxon period. the church in the 776980 24 hours before Salthouse, and village grew out of a 13th century you travel. dates to about 1940. Priory of Augustinian Canons. Contact us and let us know how you’ve Salthouse comes from the Old Norse The Poppy Line offers upto 10.5 got on: and English for ‘ house for storing mile trips by steam train and travels Salt’. On Salthouse heath and from Sheringham to Weybourne www.nationaltrail.co.uk Produced by National Trail office common lies the largest barrow then onto Holt. See more details 09/10 cemetery from the Bronze Age in here: www.nnrailway.co.uk 6 - Cley to Weybourne

Terrain: e e e e

he he Grass topped floodbank

nd nd from Cley village to the beach, shingle ridge from Cley beach to Weybourne. Steps: • Up onto the floodbank at Cley village. Maps: Ordnance Survey Explorer 251 & 252 Landranger 133

County Council. Licence No: 100019340.2010 Public Toilets: Cley beach car park - No disabled, Salthouse No public conveniences Weybourne No public conveniences

Refreshments: Cley next the Sea - Once on Weybourne beach, you can walk into into the can walk you beach, Weybourne Once on there a facilities the of advantage to village take pick up the Coasthopper back to your destination. to your back pick the Coasthopper up

shingle ridge, walk across the car park and onto th and onto thecar park across walk shingle ridge, Once at the Norfolk Wildlife Trust car park below t below car park Trust Wildlife the Once at Norfolk Weybourne. to from ridge here

Muckleburgh collection (see more overleaf). overleaf). more (see collection Muckleburgh to th down theroad totake here option There is an

Tea rooms, pubs, a delicatessen and a smoke house.

Weybourne - (01263) The Ship Inn -serves food (t:588271) Tearooms - ‘Sea ’ (t:588464) and Bunteas on the approach to the village from the beach. The Village Store (t:588219) Newly renovated you can buy a loaf of bread to a fresh coffee and snack here C&A Seafood on the Kelling road out of the village, sell freshly caught crabs and seafood. Coast Path in the Pick Norfolk up - -TG043438 Start Cley village, it comes into the village at the the bott at the village it comes village, into Cley Fayre Picnic opposite steps the informal

See more at: www.weybourne.net aware of the lack of a footway and of traffic which traffic and of footway of a ofthelack aware period. summer the busy during busy especially the and onto the windmill sign by theacorn Follow y then takes The path the houses. runs behind which Eye. to Cley and out ontothe floodbank delicatessen. Walk down the main road into the the vill into theroad down main Walk delicatessen.