This was the final section of the walk with my friend Rob along the Norfolk Coastal Path. Unfortunately, I took few notes and equally few photos of this walk and with the event being sometime ago, this report will be quite short of content.
We drove to the seaside town of Hunstanton for a walk that would see the completion of The Norfolk Coastal Path. We caught an early morning bus through to Wells-next-the-Sea and set off along a road that ran out to the Coastguard lookout post. We immediately turned left continuing through a mixture of dunes and Old Scots Pine trees. We walked along Holkham Meals through to Holkham Gap where there was a small car park. We continued along hard compact sand through Holkham Nature Reserve. We lost the trees and emerged on a road track alongside Overy Creek. The first village of our walk was Burnham Overy Staithe .
We passed into and along the fringe of the vast expanse of Salt marsh that is Burnham Norton Nature Reserve. The actual coast was way over across the marsh with its myriad of small pools and creeks, almost a lie away. We continued along an old sea bank into our next village Burnham Deepdale. We walked on the path at the back of houses for some distance soon arriving at the village of Brancaster. Here to avoid walking along the A149 we continued inland slightly. After passing about 6 or 7 fields we emerged close to the larger village of Thornham where we made our way out again to the sea bank.
We passed through another nature Reserve and out past Gore Point. We arrived at Holme-next-the-Sea and met up with the Peddars Way, another National Trail linking with the Norfolk Coastal path. We also crossed Hunstanton Golf Course so we knew it was not that far to go, especially after the rain began to fall. We passed through the small village of Old Hunstanton closer to the sea than we had been all day. The rain did not abate as we arrived in Hunstanton, we were glad to have completed a very long day.
P.S I actually walked the Peddars Way some 6 years later in 2013. The area had suffered some storm damage including the Golf Club which had greens washed away in the storm surge.
Distance today = 23 miles
Total distance = 227 miles
Walking the Coast of Great Britain 
Did you approach Hunstanton along the beach? I think the cliffs are quite amazing, although you would have missed out on the full effect of their gorgeous colours if it was a dull day.
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Hi Ruth, I am pretty sure we did’nt. It was raining quite hard as we trudged into Hunstanton. Hopefully, in the next couple of days I can close the gap with the section from Kings Lynn to Hunstanton but are unsure if the cliff line feature extends south of the town. Saying that, even from the sea bank approaching the Great Ouse you could easily see the distinct banding in the cliffs across The Wash.
These retropective reports are quite difficult to write with trying to remember a particular walk that long ago, the Pembrokeshire CP occurred even longer ago and I have anoth 10 + reports to do for that section, then I’m up to date. I think Jon Combe still has quite a few to catch up on as well.
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