Beaches

Large area of coastal habitat, particularly noted for birdlife. Extensive area of saltmarsh, intertidal mud and sandflats. Site of the Roman fort of Branodunum and Scolt Head Island

Address:  , Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk,

Beaches

With more people using the sea and beach for pleasure than ever before, the demands placed on RNLI crews and lifeguards have never been greater.

Address:  ,  , Norfolk,

Beaches

The Good Beach Guide is published by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). It is the biggest and best beach guide available with a description, photo and map for each of 1,200 beaches in the UK and Ireland.

Address:  ,  , Norfolk,

Boat Trips

Why not join us on one of our daily boat trips when you visit North Norfolk and see the SEALS & BIRDS in their natural environment at BLAKENEY POINT.

Address:  , Blakeney and Morston, Norfolk,

Churches

This little church in its coastal village deserves fame for its three outstanding features:- its Saxon round tower (pre-Conquest of 1066), its Norman font, and its collection of medieval glass.

Address:  , Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, PE31 8DD

Churches

All Saints is obviously well-loved and looked after, and there is some wholly excellent late 19th and early 20th century glass, including a super window of the angels appearing to shepherds on the hills above Bethlehem. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Stanhoe, Norfolk,

Churches

All Saints is in the middle of the village, but has a wide graveyard, so you can take in the fine 15th century nave with its aisles and clerestory. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Thornham, Norfolk,

Churches

Although Burnham Market is the largest of the Burnhams, it is not a historic parish, and in many ways it was an invention of the railway companies, who put one of their stations where three of the Burnhams had grown together. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Market, Norfolk,

Churches

This is the most remote and secretive of the Burnhams, hidden away among narrow lanes about two miles south-east of Burnham Market. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk,

Churches

What survives is basically the south doorway, apparently Norman. You can make out the outline of the south wall of nave and chancel. It was made thoroughly safe in the late 1980s, and sits in the middle of a little garden. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Hunstanton, Norfolk,

Churches

It is the Catholic Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, the Stella Maris dedication that must have been common to many East Anglian coastal churches in the Middle Ages. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk,

Churches

Although it is set opposite Burnham Market primary school, just off the road to Burnham Overy, this ruin is actually in Burnham Norton parish, by virtue of being on the west bank of the River Burn. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Norton, Norfolk,

Churches

St Andrew appears to be a normal, if over-restored, 14th century church, but the north side has been comprehensively redeveloped to give it the appearance of some kind of nightmarish institution. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Ringstead, Norfolk,

Churches

There are several ways in which Burnham Overy is the odd one out of the Burnhams. Although it is barely a mile from Burnham Ulph, it feels much more remote, closeted in rolling hills, a thoroughly agricultural setting. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Overy, Norfolk,

Churches

This unassuming 19th century church is unremarkable externally. But to anyone who has ever visited St Edmund it will stick in the memory as what is probably the highest Anglican church in East Anglia. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Hunstanton, Norfolk,

Churches

The modern town of Burnham Market is an amalgam of three historic parishes, Burnhams Sutton, Ulph and Westgate. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Market, Norfolk,

Churches

Unpretentious St Henry sits like a rural fire station on one side of Burnham Markets green, opposite Burnham Westgate church. It is a chapel of ease to the Catholic parish church of Little Walsingham. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Market, Norfolk,

Churches

This is the most beautiful of the six surviving medieval Burnham churches, both in terms of its setting and its structure. The position is superb, on a hilltop half a mile north of Burnham Market, half a mile south of the sea. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Norton, Norfolk,

Churches

Unusually for this part of Norfolk, St Mary is small, but it is as pretty as many of the rest. The prettiness of the tower is enhanced by a rarity, the little medieval lead and wood spire. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Titchwell, Norfolk,

Churches

St Mary has a tradition going back several decades of always being full of flowers, as if a wedding was about to take place. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , South Creake, Norfolk,

Churches

The tower is magnificent, a late 15th century Perpendicular affair of the finest order, but it has nothing to do with the rest of the building whatsoever. A walkway of the 1930s joins it to the body of the church. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Holme-next-to-the-Sea, Norfolk,

Churches

St Mary is not without is medieval survivals, including an excellent rood screen depicting the twelve apostles on its panels. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Old Hunstanton, Norfolk,

Churches

Even today, the church of St Mary has an exotic feel to it. You can see at a glance that this was once a vast cruciform church, probably of the 13th century, a rarity in East Anglia. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Heacham, Norfolk,

Churches

The nave seems vast with those great clerestory windows, and the round tower appears to grow out of it, the aisles extending westwards to wrap around it. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Sedgeford, Norfolk,

Churches

St Mary is a fairly typical East Anglian town church of the mid-15th century, retaining the chancel of its predecessor. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Docking, Norfolk,

Churches

North Creake church is a vast urban Anglo-catholic temple that could as easily be in the centre of Bristol or Norwich. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , North Creake, Norfolk,

Churches

St Mary is by no means the most interesting or exciting of the churches round about here, but it is well kept, well-used, open and welcoming, so can be forgiven almost anything else. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Brancaster, Norfolk,

Churches

This church has become the main parish church of the Burnhams. During the course of the centuries, the villages of Sutton, Ulph and Westgate grew together, and in the 19th century the amalgamation was given a railway station. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Burnham Market, Norfolk,

Churches

St Nicholas is almost entirely Victorian; its medieval predecessor was destroyed in a fire in 1879. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk,

Churches

This massive church would be quite at home in the centre of a large town, but here it sits on a hilltop in a remote corner of the Holkham Hall estate, with only deer and sheep for company. Link isnt official website.

Address:  , Holkham, Norfolk,

Festivals & Major Events

Address: Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, PE31 8DD

Festivals & Major Events

Norfolk Open Studios is one of the foremost events of its kind in the UK, with around 250 artists inviting you in. The work on show will range from painting and sculpture to ceramics, textiles, photography and new media.

Address:  , , Norfolk,

Harbours

Large area of coastal habitat, particularly noted for birdlife. Extensive area of saltmarsh, intertidal mud and sandflats. Site of the Roman fort of Branodunum and Scolt Head Island

Address:  , Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk,

Local Villages

Visit Aylsham, a new guide to the market town of Aylsham, Norfolk, and the surrounding area. Youll find information on accommodation, shopping, activities, attractions, history, events and travel.

Address: Aylsham Tourist Information Centre, Aylsham, Norfolk,

Nature Reserves

Large area of coastal habitat, particularly noted for birdlife. Extensive area of saltmarsh, intertidal mud and sandflats. Site of the Roman fort of Branodunum and Scolt Head Island

Address:  , Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk,

Nature Reserves

Scolt Head Island NNR is the prime example of an offshore barrier island in the UK. It is situated on a very dynamic coastline and is steadily growing westward.

Address: Brancaster Staithe Harbour, Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk,

Nature Reserves

HOLKHAM is the most extensive, diverse and dramatic nature reserve on a coastline famous for nature reserves.

Address:  , Holkham, Norfolk,

Stately Homes

Holkham is still privately owned, and is the centre of a 25,000 acre agricultural estate providing funds and resources, which maintain not only the house, but also ensure that the social fabric of rural life remains intact.

Address: Holkham Estate Office, Holkham, Norfolk, NR23 1AB