Recreational Walks In Norfolk

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SHORT WALKS

There are many short circular walks in Norfolk. Countryside Norfolk has page listing them here .

Blickling Hall has 3 Waymarked walks.

Bure Valley Way , 14 kilometres from Aylsham to Wroxham

Felbrigg Hall has waymarked walks.

Foxley Wood Nature Reserve, off the road from Foxley to Themelthorpe , has waymarked walks.

Great Eastern Pingo Trail , 13 kilometre circular at Stow Bedon near Thompson , parking is on the A1075, in the old railway station yard.

Hickling Broad Nature Reserve at Hickling has a waymarked walk.

Horsey Windpump has waymarked walks.

Old Wood at Sheringham has a waymarked circular walk.

Oxburgh Hall has a 'Woodland Explorer' trail.

Sheringham Park has several waymarked walks, including one to the North Norfolk Railway .

Snakeshill Wood at Old Costessy has a waymarked circular walk.

In Thetford Forest on the Norfolk / Suffolk border, Great Hockham has walks of 2 and 3.5 kilometres; High Lodge Forest Centre has 4 walks — two of 1.5 kilometres, one of 4.5 kilometres, plus an easy-access trail; Lynford Arboretum has two trails of 1.5 and 2 kilometres, plus an easy-access trail; Lynford Stag has walks of 2 and 3 kilometres; Rishbeth Wood has a 5.5 kilometre walk; St. Helens has a walk described as requiring 2.5 hours

Wensum Riverside Walk, follows the River Wensum from Norwich City Centre to Hellesdon , where it meets the Marriott's Way .

Yare Valley Walk. Runs alongside the River Yare from Bowthorpe Southern Park in Norwich to Marston Marsh .

LONGER WALKS

Kett's Country , 34 kilometres from Norwich to Wymondham

Marriott's Way , 34 kilometres from Norwich to Aylsham

Paston Way , 32 kilometres from Cromer to North Walsham (the walk was re-launched on 31st May 2006)

Tas Valley Way , 40 kilometres from Norwich to Attleborough

LONG-DISTANCE PATHS

A long distance circular tour of 359 kilometres around Norfolk can be completed by following the Angles Way , Peddar's Way , Norfolk Coast Path and Weavers Way

Angles Way , 123 kilometres from Great Yarmouth to Knettishall Heath , with much of the path following the Norfolk / Suffolk border. Additionally there is a link path from Knettishall Heath to Thetford .

Boudica's Way , 60 kilometres from Norwich to Diss

Fen Rivers Way , runs 98.5 kilometres Cambridge to King's Lynn

Hereward Way , 166 kilometres from Oakham to East Harling ( Rutland , Lincolnshire , Cambridgeshire , Norfolk ). The Stamford to Peterborough section is not fully Waymarked , but walkers travelling between those two places can follow the waymarked Torpel Way .

Nar Valley Way , 54 kilometres King's Lynn to Gressenhall

Norfolk Coast Path National Trail , 72 kilometres from Holme-next-the-Sea to Cromer

Ouse Valley Way , 240 kilometres from Syresham , Northamptonshire to King's Lynn , Norfolk via Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire

Peddar's Way National Trail , 74 kilometres from Knettishall Heath to Holme-next-the-Sea

Weavers Way , 90 kilometres from Cromer to Great Yarmouth

Wherryman's Way , 56 kilometres following the River Yare from Norwich to Great Yarmouth

SEE ALSO

Long-distance Footpaths In The UK

EXTERNAL LINKS

Countryside Norfolk

The Forestry Commission's Thetford Forest page

bestwalks.com page of books for sale describing walks in Norfolk