This is a 5 day/6 night (7 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 are per person. 

You can't arrive in Cromer on a Saturday/Sunday or Monday due to dinner arrangements in Erpingham.  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 64 miles - 5 day walking holiday

Day 1 - 12.8 miles/20.5 km (includes 1 mile to the accomodation)

Day 2 - 13.8 miles/22.2 km (includes mileage back to the path)

Day 3 - 10 miles/16 km

Day 4 - 15.4 miles/24.7 km

Day 5 - 13 miles/21 km

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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. You continue on into the countryside until  you arrive in Erpingham.

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! You walk right through the middle of North Walsham and out of the other side to reach your 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 and pass one of the tallest surviving windmills in England today. 

At the end of the day a taxi transfer is organised to take you to a hotel. 

Taxi transfer back to where you stopped yesterday.  The mileage includes walking into the middle of Acle.

The landscape changes dramatically today to become the iconic Norfolk Broads scenery. Staithes, windmills and drainage mills are the order of the day. There are some lovely photo opportunities with the windmills today, particular the white windmill at Thurne. You’ll follow the River Thurne and River Bure very closely. You walk alongside Potter Heigham, a very busy boating town with lots of activity on the waters edge and over the medieval bridge dating back to 1385. 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