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Beck Cottage

Sheringham

Sleeps 4-6

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Creek Cottage

Salthouse

Sleeps 2-8

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Manor Farm Cottages

East Runton

Sleeps 2-8

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Poppyland Holiday Cottages

Various locations

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The Lantern House

Wells-Next-The-Sea

Sleeps 6

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The Saltings

Blakeney

Sleeps 6

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Willow Barn

North Wootton

Sleeps 2

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Enjoy Norfolk!

Famed for it's landscape, wildlife and diverse coastline, Norfolk offers peace and solitude for those wishing 'to get away from it all'.

Find yourself a bargain holiday today in beautiful North Norfolk.

Norfolk has always been a popular holiday destination. Famed for it's landscape, wildlife and diverse coastline, Norfolk offers peace and solitude for those wishing 'to get away from it all'.

Norfolk also offers a growing range of attractions to view and experience, particularly for families. And, of course, Norfolk boasts some great restaurants to sample as well as numerous fine pubs.

A wide variety of accommodation (not just holiday cottages) is available - everything from small 'bolt-hole' coastal hideaway cottages through to luxury villas and manor houses (complete with swimming pools, hot tubs and wireless internet access). There's something for everybody, whatever your budget.

Say goodbye to the stress of airports and flights and discover the delight of a holiday in Norfolk. Norfolk is less than 60 miles from the M25 and fully connected to all railway routes.

The best beaches and the best weather...

Our position on the east coast gives us the best chance of favourable weather and on average provides us with more sunny days and less rainfall than anywhere else in the UK.

Blue Flags for 6 Norfolk beaches

Six beaches on the North Norfolk coast currently boast Blue Flag status - Hunstanton, Cromer, Sheringham, Sea Palling and Lowestoft (both North and South of the pier). Read the full list here.

Nowhere else in England can you find such a diverse variety of beach types.

We have dunes, cliffs (even stripy ones!) , flat beaches (stretching for miles), pebble beaches, shingle beaches, and more... and because of the shape of Norfolk, all beaches are within the reach of most locations. The Coasthopper bus service covers the journey from Kings Lynn to Cromer.

a bit about Norfolk...

“the wilds of Norfolk”

Charles II had no use for Norfolk. He said it was fit only to be dug up to make roads for the rest of England. Horace Walpole (youngest son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole) shuddered when obliged, for family estate reasons, to journey into the 'wilds of Norfolk'.

As for Holkham, home of Coke of Norfolk, Earl of Leicester and 'Father of English Farming', this forty-thousand-acre estate when he inherited it in 1776 was so barren 'that two rabbits might often be seen fighting for one blade of grass'.

Norfolk today

Nowadays, Norfolk remains relatively unspoilt but is able to offer modern pleasures when and where required.

It's a broad, bright land of high heath and pine forests; of green marshes and sparkling broads; of vast barley stubbles that run into the sky; of purple moorland with heather; of saltings just as purple with sea lavender.

Norwich

For contrast, Norfolk offers the city of Norwich, a city of antiquity and now famed as one of the greatest places to shop in the entire country.

Norfolk Geography

Norfolk probably has the bluest skies in England, the clearest visibility and the least rainfall. Norfolk's blue skies, clear distances and special blend of varied landscapes make the county a favourite for artists and photographers.

Covering 5,371 km² (2,074 square miles), Norfolk is the 5^th largest English ceremonial county. Only North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cumbria and Devon are larger (largest listed first). Norfolk is oval in shape, being 67 miles east to west and 43 miles from north to south.

The North Sea, including the Wash, bounds it on the north and east. Suffolk lies to the south, Cambridgeshire to the west. Norfolk is almost an island, being cut off from Suffolk by the River Waveney and Little Ouse, and from Cambridgeshire by the Great Ouse and the Nene. Ninety miles of coastline complete the picture.

Norfolk Geology

The geology of Norfolk is fascinating and provides beaches with numerous fossils to be found.

Chalk underlies much of East Anglia, from the Cambridgeshire Gog Magog Hills through west Norfolk from Thetford to Castle Acre and on to Holme-next-the-sea.

Breckland, a unique wild area of heath, sandy rabbit warrens and lonely wastes, was the armoury of prehistoric man. Here, Neolithic man quarried his flints in pits and underground workings, of which Grime's Graves, near Brandon are the classic example. His flint axes, arrow heads, skinning knives and scrapers were exported all over eastern and midland England.

At Hunstanton you find carstone, a dark brown, gritty, rather soft 'gingerbread' stone, much of it lying below red chalk. There is also much gault clay. Flint, pebbles and cobbles are everywhere. Faced flints are common as a building material. Hence the thousands of flint-built farmhouses, cottages and barns, walls and other buildings.

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