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Blakeney Point shingle from Cley beach

Cley · NR25 7RZ
Cley Channel River Glaven Blakeney Channel N 1 MILE © OpenStreetMap contributors
8MILES
4h 30mON FOOT
25mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 95%Road with traffic 5%

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.

Starts at
Cley Beach car park at the seaward end of Beach Road, Cley next the Sea NR25 7RZ
Parking
Small pay-and-display gravel car park at the end of Beach Road, around 60 spaces, no shade and occasionally shut after a tidal overwash; nothing else within a mile
Directions to the start →

Eight miles there and back on loose shingle, four hours or more of genuinely hard going that punishes ankles and paws in equal measure, out to the old lifeboat house at the end of the Point and back the same way. It starts at the Beach Road car park at Cley, a pay-and-display gravel pen at the very end of the lane, exposed and sometimes closed after an overwash; there is no other access on foot. Dogs are barred from the whole of Blakeney Point from 1 April to 15 August for the ground-nesting terns, and again from 1 November until the middle of January for the grey seal pupping season, so this is a late-August to late-October walk, on a short lead, with no fresh water anywhere on the shingle.

THE SMALL PRINTNo dogs anywhere on Blakeney Point between 1 April and 15 August during the ground-nesting bird season, and none between 1 November and mid-January during grey seal pupping. At all other times dogs must be kept on a short lead.
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 52.9611, 1.0490
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRUST.ORG.UK/VISIT/NORFOLK/BLAKENEY-NATIONAL-NATURE-RESERVE/VISITING-BLAKENEY-POINT-AND-CLEY-BEACH-WITH-YOUR-DOG
Also in Cley
880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
Walk SOME LIMITS

Cley shingle bank and the East Bank

NR25 7RZ
4 MI · 2H · 88% OFF-ROAD

Four miles in two hours on shingle, a raised grass bank and a stretch of the coast road pavement, a circuit of the best birdwatching ground in England with Cley windmill in the frame most of the way. Start at the Beach Road car park, pay and display at the end of the lane, and pick up the East Bank half a mile east along the shingle; the Coasthopper stops outside the Norfolk Wildlife Trust visitor centre on the A149. Norfolk Wildlife Trust allows assistance dogs only inside the reserve and the visitor centre, but dogs may use Beach Road, the shingle bank along the northern boundary and the East Bank on a lead at all times, and the outside decking at the centre is open to them.

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