Walk · Norfolk

Blickling lake, park and the mausoleum

Blickling · NR11 6NF

5.2MILES

2h 35mON FOOT

70mCLIMB

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

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 40%Lane & track 48%Road with traffic 12%

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

National Trust car park at Blickling Estate, off the B1354 NR11 6NF

Parking

Free to National Trust members, pay and display for others; several hundred spaces on hard standing and overflow grass, only full on bluebell and Trust10 event mornings

Directions to the start →

Five and a quarter miles and around two and a half hours through the parkland of one of the great Jacobean houses, round the mile-long lake, up through the woods to the pyramid mausoleum of the second Earl of Buckinghamshire and back along the multi-use trail. Start at the National Trust car park at Blickling, postcode NR11 6NF, free to members and pay and display for everyone else, with plenty of space except on late-May bluebell weekends. A well-trained dog may explore off lead unless signs say otherwise, but leads are required in the car parks, on the front drive, on the lake walk, which is the busiest route, and anywhere there is livestock.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs may be off lead where they are well trained and recall reliably, but must be kept on a lead in the car parks, on the front drive, on the lake walk, which is the most popular and busiest route, and wherever there is livestock. Dogs are not admitted to the hall or the formal garden.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORFOLK

GRID · 52.8080, 1.2265

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRUST.ORG.UK/VISIT/NORFOLK/BLICKLING-ESTATE/BRINGING-YOUR-DOG-TO-BLICKLING

Blickling lake, park and the mausoleum

House rules, decoded

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