Walk · Norfolk

Hunstanton cliffs and the Old Hunstanton dunes

Hunstanton

4.2MILES

2h 5mON FOOT

55mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 82% 18% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 58%Lane & track 24%Road with traffic 18%

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

Central pay-and-display car park off Southend Road, behind the green at Hunstanton

Parking

Several linked pay-and-display car parks along the seafront and off Southend Road; the northern cliff-top spaces are closest to the walk and go first on hot days

Directions to the start →

Four and a quarter miles in about two hours, north along the striped red and white chalk cliffs, down the ramp at the lighthouse and out onto the dunes and open sand at Old Hunstanton before turning back through the golf links. Start from the central car park off Southend Road behind the green, pay and display with plenty of space out of season and a long queue in August; the coastal bus stops on the Esplanade. Dogs are banned from the beach between the power boat ramp and the north end of the promenade from 1 April to 31 October inclusive and must be on a lead on that stretch of promenade, with an £80 fixed penalty for ignoring it, but the dunes and sand north of the lighthouse stay open all year.

THE SMALL PRINTUnder the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk's Control of Dogs order dogs are banned from the beach from the power boat ramp at TF667400 to the northern extremity of the promenade at TF671414, and must be on a lead on that stretch of promenade, from 1 April to 31 October inclusive. Fixed penalty £80 for a single offence.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · NORFOLK

GRID · 52.9390, 0.4905

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.WEST-NORFOLK.GOV.UK/INFO/20094/ANIMALS_AND_PESTS/750/DOG_CONTROL

Hunstanton cliffs and the Old Hunstanton dunes

House rules, decoded

Ashleigh Lodge

Becca's Kitchen

Berni Beans

Cottages you can book near Hunstanton

Tell us the pub we have not walked into yet.

Get the new stamps first.

Your patch, watched for you.