Walk · Norfolk

Acle to Stokesby and the Halvergate marshes

Acle

7.6MILES

3h 40mON FOOT

25mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 84% 16% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 46%Lane & track 38%Road with traffic 16%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Free riverside car park at Acle Bridge on the A1064

Parking

Free at Acle Bridge, around 60 spaces; Acle railway station car park is the alternative and adds a mile of lane walking at each end

Directions to the start →

Seven and a half miles and three and a half hours on the Weavers' Way, which runs 61 miles from Cromer to Great Yarmouth and gives its emptiest miles here, out along the Bure to Stokesby and back across the Halvergate marshes, the largest expanse of grazing marsh in Britain. Start at the free riverside car park at Acle Bridge; there is no water, shade or shelter once you are out on the marsh, so carry your own for both of you. This is cattle country the whole way with drainage dykes instead of fences, so a lead is needed for most of the crossing, and the drainage mills give the only landmarks in a landscape with no hedges at all.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs must be kept on a lead all year where cattle are grazing, which on the Halvergate marshes is most of the route from spring to autumn, and on a short lead on open access land between 1 March and 31 July.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORFOLK

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Acle to Stokesby and the Halvergate marshes

House rules, decoded

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