Walk · Norfolk

Wells Pinewoods and the beach huts

Wells Next the Sea · NR23 1DR

3.1MILES

1h 30mON FOOT

20mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 55%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 10%

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

Pinewoods beach car park, Beach Road, Wells-next-the-Sea NR23 1DR

Parking

Pay and display, large but fills by mid-morning in the school holidays; the lifeboat house end has the shortest walk to the sand

Directions to the start →

A three-mile hour-and-a-half loop on soft sand, boardwalk and needle-carpeted forest track, out past the stilted beach huts and back through the pines on the inland side of the dune ridge. It starts and finishes at the Pinewoods pay-and-display car park at the end of Beach Road; the harbour miniature railway runs from the quay in season if you would rather not drive. Dogs are off lead on the open sand and in the pines, there is fresh water at the car park kiosk, but the marked no-dog area in front of the beach huts stands and now includes the sands where the seals haul out, so read the signs before you let go of the lead.

THE SMALL PRINTA marked no-dog area covers the beach in front of the beach huts and has been extended to include the sands where seals haul out; the rest of the beach and the Pinewoods are open to dogs.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Water bowls

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Wells Pinewoods and the beach huts

House rules, decoded

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