Out & About
Burnham Overy Staithe to Holkham
‘Reflections Burnham Overy’ © www.pebblesphotography.co.uk
This beautiful coastal walk includes – a quay and tidal creek, salt marshes, mud flats, sand dunes and a mile-long (actually a two miles long) beach of glorious, golden sand.
POINTS OF INTEREST Burnham Overy Staithe is a popular spot for dinghy sailing and a good place to hire kayaks. It has a chandlery. Scolt Head Island (yes, it really is an island!) is a project for another day. A mile due N, there is usually a ferry that runs around high tide. It’s a National Nature Reserve so a great place for spotting wildlife, and is almost always deserted. Gun Hill, the rise on your left (W) as you approach the sea along the sea wall, is the spot where artillery was installed during the Napoleonic Wars. Holkham Beach is consistently voted as one of the Top 10 beaches in the UK, and is often used as a film set; perhaps most famously for the final scenes of Shakespeare in Love (1998), starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
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NORTH NORFOLK LIVING AUTUMN 2016
WALK DATA Distance: 7 kms (4 3/8 miles) Typical time: 1 3/4 hrs Height gain: none Map: OS Landranger 132 NE Norfolk Start: Coasthopper Bus Stop: Burnham Overy Staithe, Hero Pub Finish: Coasthopper Bus Stop: Holkham, Victoria Inn Terrain: Straightforward Norfolk Coast Path: This route follows the Norfolk Coast Path until it reaches Lady Anne’s Drive towards the end of the walk