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Walk · Norfolk

Horning riverside and Cockshoot Broad

Horning
Horning Burefield A1062 Ferry Road River Bure Cockshoot Dyke Cockshoot Dyke N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
4.2MILES
2h 5mON FOOT
15mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 92% 8% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 52%Lane & track 40%Road with traffic 8%

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
Village staithe on Lower Street, Horning
Parking
Free staithe parking on Lower Street, around 25 spaces and quickly full; the village pay-and-display off the A1062 adds ten minutes' walk
Directions to the start →

Four and a quarter miles there and back, two hours on grass river wall and boardwalk, following the Bure downstream from Horning to the dyke and hide at Cockshoot Broad, the first Broads lake to be dammed and cleared of nutrient-rich mud. It starts from the Lower Street staithe in Horning, free but tight, and the going is level throughout with no stiles and only two gates. This is water on both sides for most of the way with unfenced banks, so a lead where the path narrows makes sense, and the Broads Authority reminds walkers never to enter the water after a dog and to check policies because many nature reserves and permissive paths do not allow them at all.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs are allowed on the public rights of way under effective control. Permissive paths and nature reserves alongside may not allow dogs at all, so read the signs; a short lead is required on open access land between 1 March and 31 July.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead OK
REGION · NORFOLK
GRID · 52.7055, 1.4815
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.VISITTHEBROADS.CO.UK/DISCOVER-THE-BROADS/WALKING-AND-CYCLING/BRINGING-YOUR-DOG/
Also in Horning
1 MILE © OpenStreetMap contributors
Walk SOME LIMITS

Horning staithe, the ferry and Woodbastwick

5 MI · 2H 30M · 80% OFF-ROAD

Five miles and about two and a half hours, riverbank and estate track, from the thatched staithe at Horning down the Bure to the ferry and inland through the Woodbastwick estate, the tidiest thatched village in Norfolk. Start on Lower Street at Horning where the free village staithe parking sits behind the shops, and expect it to be full from mid-morning in summer; the alternative is the pay-and-display at the top of the village. Dogs are allowed on the footpaths and byways under effective control, but the Broads Authority asks for leads all year near farm animals and a short lead on open access land between 1 March and 31 July for ground-nesting birds; the Bure has steep unfenced banks and a real current.

Off-lead OK Livestock — leads on
VERIFIED 29 JUL 2026 VIEW ›

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