This is a 7 day/8 night (9 days in total including arrival and departure) self guided walk along the Weaver's Way trail. This is a wonderful and varied long distance trail starting from Cromer and taking you all the way to Great Yarmouth. This will be organised by Explore Norfolk UK so all you have to do is turn up and enjoy the stunning and unique landscape.
Pricing and deposit is per person.
You can ONLY arrive in Cromer on a Thursday or Friday due to dinner arrangements in Erpingham and one night stays in North Walsham. This will show up when you select your dates.
This incredibly diverse Weaver's Way will take you through the grounds of 2 imposing stately homes, past various historic round tower churches as well as passing by some other significant churches and ruins, along some wonderfully straight disused railway lines and platforms and through large expanses of reedbeds and water meadows, and finally, passing a number of drainage mills and windmills.
Approximately 65 miles - 7 day walking holiday
Day 1 - 8.5 miles/13.6 km
Day 2 - 8 miles/12.8 km
Day 3 - 7 miles/11 km
Day 4 - 9 miles/12.5 km
Day 5 - 9.5 miles/15.2 km
Day 6 - 7 miles/11 km
Day 7 - 13 miles/21 km
Bed and breakfast accommodation in personally chosen B&B’s, pubs or hotels where all the owners have been met and the accommodation has been visited.
Luggage is moved for you from one accommodation to the next
You will need 2 taxi transfers on this walk. This is included in the price
A detailed information pack with 2 x OS maps, detailed itinerary with places of interest and places to eat in the day and evening, and a small booklet with detailed notes about the route
In case of emergencies
Excluded are lunches, dinners, snacks and drinks
Please make sure you have travel insurance to cover this holiday.
Transport for any rest days.
Travel to/from Cromer and to/from Gt Yarmouth.
Rest days -any costs for rest days or extra activities undertaken.
We can discuss additional rest days/extra nights if required.
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Arrive in Cromer and stay the night
Starting from Cromer, the path takes you inland to the National Trust grounds and the Jacobean property of Felbrigg Hall. Walking away from the estate you emerge into the wooded rolling countryside, passing one round tower church, one large common enclosed by cattle grids and arrive at the extremely pretty Georgian village of Aldborough. At the end of the walk you will be transferred to your accommodation by taxi.
Taxi transfer back to Aldborough.
Today churches sprout up all around you on the horizon and you soon arrive at the second National Trust grounds and property of Blickling Hall. This is another stunning stately home. Following on from here, you reach the first stretch of the disused railway bringing you to the north side of Aylsham.
Quiet lanes and tracks lead you to rejoin the disused railway line all the way to North Walsham, passing an old platform and station building. Evident badger activity can be seen along here!
The mileage includes the walk from the path to the accommodation.
You’ll enjoy the peace and woodlands along another stretch of disused railway line. Expect to be pleasantly surprised by another old railway platform and station building (boarded up!). The path is scattered with old style railway crossing gates. You’ll skirt the only canal in Norfolk.
The mileage includes the walk from the accommodation back to the path.
Today you’ll pass one of the tallest surviving windmills in England. The landscape changes dramatically to become the iconic Norfolk Broads scenery. Drainage mills, Hickling Broad and walking alongside the river until you reach the busy town of Potter Heigham with its medieval bridge dating back to 1385. At the end of the walk you are transferred by taxi to your accommodation.
Taxi transfer to take you to where you stopped yesterday. A shorter walk today but staithes, windmills and drainage mills are the order of the day. There are some lovely photo opportunities with the windmills, particular the white windmill at Thurne. You’ll follow the River Thurne and River Bure very closely. Continuing to follow the river and alongside the grazing marshes and reedbeds, you end the day in Acle.
The panoramic views with the windmills and drainage mills are the main attraction today. Navigating a few fields and quite lanes, coming across a church which is part ruin and a couple of small villages brings you to the grazing meadows and water meadows of Halvergate Marshes which is the largest expanse of grazing marsh in East Anglia. This is so peaceful and totally remote. You then follow the River Yare all the way to the estuary at Gt Yarmouth.
Depart from Great Yarmouth
