Hunstanton Beach
The town beach below the green and the promenade, the only west-facing resort sand in Norfolk and the one that watches the sun set over the Wash. It also carries the longest dog ban on this coast, seven months rather than the usual five, so out of season is the time to bring a dog. Walk north past the end of the prom for Old Hunstanton, which is open all year.
Hunstanton cliffs and the Old Hunstanton dunes
4.2 MI · 2H 5M · 82% OFF-ROADFour 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.
Hunstanton, Ringstead and the Peddars Way
7.3 MI · 3H 30M · 82% OFF-ROADSeven and a quarter miles and about three and a half hours inland, climbing gently off the coast onto the chalk to Ringstead village and returning along the last miles of the Peddars Way, the 46-mile Roman road that ends at Holme-next-the-Sea. Start at the cliff-top car park at the north end of Hunstanton and walk out through Old Hunstanton; the route can be cut to five miles by returning down Ringstead Road. The Peddars Way is a broad green track with no stiles, but the field sections cross sheep and cattle ground where leads are needed, there is no water for four miles in the middle, and the Gin Trap Inn at Ringstead is the only stop.