The exposed stratified cliffs at Hunstanton lie at the western end of the North Norfolk Coastal Path.

April 2010

The North Norfolk Coastal Path crosses Norfolk from west to east and is some 50 miles long. At Holme it joins the Peddars Way at right angles. We had already walked the Peddars Way from Thetford to Holme and now came back, staying at a cottage in Holme and first travelling a few miles west to the starting point of the Norfolk Coastal Path at Hunstanton. Our first evening was a very good meal at The Gintrap, Ringstead.

The main centres along the path are

Hunstanton - Holme - Titchwell - Brancaster - Wells
Stiffkey - Blakeney - Holt - Sheringham - Cromer

and our first weekend was to complete Hunstanton to Wells, to celebrate ten years of Walking Boys weekends, finishing up at The Crown at Wells next the sea where we started our regular walking weekends in April 2000.

The walk is flat, though with very varied countryside and has the great conveniences of being able to be walked in four weekends (we took two 3-day weekends for the Peddars Way and will take a further two 3-day weekends for the coastal path), with pubs and accommodation everywhere and a superb coastal bus service along the coast to ferry you to your starting point every day.

Hunstanton is a seaside town, featuring for example "Britain's Biggest Joke Shop," (though sadly largely barren of jokes) and starting on the beach is a great start, opening the lungs and clearing the head before heading east.

The cliffs are startling in colour and the whole place is spacious and fresh. The path heads for Holme across low-tide sands and soft sandy dunes. If your experience of the coast is the stones of Aldeburgh this will be a revelation.