This is a 4 day/5 night (6 days in total to include arrival and departure days) self guided walk along the Peddars Way National Trail.  This will be organised by Explore Norfolk UK, so all you have to do is turn up and enjoy the stunning and unique landscape, walking an average of 13 miles a day.

Pricing and deposit are per person.    

The only day you can't start on is a Friday which will show up when you select your dates.

The Peddars Way is an historic Roman road.  Follow in the footsteps of the Romans from the middle of Knettishall Heath which is just outside Thetford, all the way to the North Norfolk Coast.  On the way you'll come across priory and castle ruins, ancient woodland , heathland and arrow straight Roman roads, as well as old burial mounds and ice age pingo ponds.   This is a really peaceful wonderful walk.  

 The official Peddars Way trail is 46 miles which stops at Holme-next-the-Sea, but as there is no accommodation here, you need to continue to walk to Hunstanton, so you will be walking approximately 49 miles which includes mileage to the accommodation.   This is a 4 days walking trip

Day 1 - 13 miles/20.9 km

Day 2 - 13 miles/13.9 km

Day 3 - 15.4 miles/24.7 km

Day 4 - 9-11 miles/14.4 - 17.7 km(depending on how you walk back to re-join the path) 

If browsing this on a laptop, look to your right for further details and photos of the walk.  

You'll arrive in historic town of Thetford as this is the nearest town to the start of the walk.  

This stretch of the Peddars Way starts in a pretty wood on the outskirts of Thetford and takes you across open countryside, pine forests, deciduous woods, along farm tracks and ancient Pingo ponds and the edge of MOD training zones. It’s an extremely peaceful stretch of the walk unless you have the gun fire from the army! 

Once out of Little Cressingham, much of this walk is on very quiet lanes. Hard on the feet but pleasant in amongst the open countryside. As you approach Swaffham you come off the beaten track and head back into woodland and straight tracks. More quiet roads follow as you finish up in the pretty flint stone village of Castle Acre.

This mileage includes the 1 mile from the path to the accommodation.

This day is the hilliest walk, but starts off along some extremely straight tracks, as well as open landscape in the form of heathland, past ancient burial grounds and an old gun powder store close to Sedgeford, the village full of flint stone and pan tiled cottages. 

Slightly different mileage depending on which way you re-join the Peddars Way.

Very much a straight walk from here to Ringstead over undulating countryside and long straight tracks again until you head down towards the sea at Holme and on to Hunstanton. A short walk today! 

Departure day