Discover the North Norfolk coast road by bicycle, marvelling at the glorious landscape. Left your bike at home? Just hire one locally! From Hunstanton to Cromer the road hugs the coast, so breathe in the salty air, then find a hidden pub and enjoy a real taste of Norfolk. This poetic landscape is little changed since author Henry Williamson cycled here during the dark days of World War Two:

‘I cycled along the coast road, free with a delightful sense of solitude, and so came to an area which probably was painted in peace-time more than any other East Anglian district. Wide marshes and reed dykes, villages of pantiled roofs and crumbling flint walls – many broken by traffic – corn barns with their tall, black double-doors, cattle yards, an old windmill, fields green with barley, distant sea and low, ragged line of sandhills under an azure sky of a clarity unsurpassed in any in any other English coastal landscape.

…To the road again, and over a slow river where reeds rustled in the breeze, and up the steep hill to another village, where stood a grey church tower and a smaller tower, like a child beside its parents. Not much good going down to the quay; the sailing boats were stored away until happier days, and the terns on the Point would be flying undisturbed except for the gulls marauding along of their own wild world.’

Henry Williamson, ‘Green Fields and Pavements’ by permission of The Henry Williamson Literary Estate ©