The Norfolk Coast Path - Part 4. Weybourne to Cromer Pier.
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- In this video, I continue along the stunning Norfolk Coast Path on the staggeringly beautiful North Norfolk Coast. I set off from my overnight wild camp spot on the beach near Weybourne, past old world war two gun emplacements, anti aircraft batteries and coastal defences, up onto the cliffs towards the seaside town of Sheringham and finally onto the old pier at Cromer.
Cromer marks the end of this leg of the trail, the halfway point. I have thoroughly enjoyed the walk so far, passing some of the most spectacular coastal scenery on offer in the East of England. Classic traditional seaside towns, ancient ports, sandstone cliffs, sand dunes, wide sandy beaches, salt marsh, reed beds, shingle beaches and yet more cliffs giving you a rewarding vantage point with views along the coastline - this walk has it all!
I will return other day to continue the trail………….stay tuned!
I would like to apologise for the deterioration in picture and sound quality during the video - my camera had an unfortunate encounter with the North Sea and gave up the ghost. I filmed the remainder of the video on my phone and GoPro, neither of which have good audio.
I hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching!
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Thank you Simon for taking me to places I'll never get to in person. Beautiful scenery.
Your shadow made me giggle 😊. Take care and stay safe, that goes to everybody out there too 👍
Thank you! You too. 👍
That was great - just what we all needed to escape reality for a few minutes
Stunning, refreshing, relaxing. How fortunate to be living in this part of the world.
That’s some gorgeous video, sir. You could take still images from any number of spots and sell the framed prints as fine art photography!
wonderful area. That must have been the Hogwarts express because the smoke was going in the stack not out.
Hahaha - it was a special Norfolk train! 😂
Hope you've managed to get your camera fixed and working again, all the best, stay safe and healthy, Neil, Chatham, Kent
Thanks Neil, I’ll wait til the virus and related madness ebbs and send it it off for repair. 👍
Thank you , Simon .
🐺 Loupis Canis .
Yeah extended. Going to see part 5. Happy Holiday's if your celebrating. Happy Thanksgiving. What holidays do you have close?
Every mile a wonder. Thanks. The shoes wear out quickly, I'm sure. Especially doubling back to snag the camera. If only we could have a camera that could follow us.
Thanks Simon - another great video - just the ticket when we are stuck at home with Coronavirus shut down! BTW - the map booklet A-Z Norfolk Coastal Path / Peddars Way covers your route with OS 1:25,000 strip maps - I had your video, the map booklet open and a handy mug 'o coffee tracking your progress! Well done on sharing your walk!
I’ll check out the A-Z version, i usually go for the Cicerone guides - they also have map sections in (albeit a narrow corridor of the terrain either side of the path) 👍👍👍
Thanks for joining me along the route!
Love the videos. I'm hiking the Jurassic coast in Dorset soon, including a wild camp at Winspit Quarry. Can't wait!
I really like your walkabout bye the ocean , peaceful and your filming is excellent . Britain now has the longest coastal walk in the world . Wonderful , thank you for sharing .
...wow, that time-lapse start Simon - brilliant! The pack up is such a chore, and you need to be systematic as you show. I move a lot slower! Honestly, I take an hour each pack up! That said - in an emergency or heavy rain I can do it in 20 mins max. Stuff and go!
Thank you Simon, I am thoroughly enjoying this series of walks, I have also been following your route on Google Earth on my second monitor. I am a great fan of this part of Norfolk and am very familiar with it. Although I live on the south coast near Hastings, I escape to Norfolk as often as my wife will let me free for a few days. I am approaching 77 now and am amazed at your perceived walking speed, I would be left way behind if I tried to keep up with you; about 8 miles in one leg is enough for me these days. I am looking forward to following you on all your adventures in the future, as a severe insomniac, you are getting me through the long and pleasantly quiet, winter nights.
You'd never know you had a bum foot, Simon, with that final hyper push on the pier ! 😉 Thanks for another great vid. ATB - Darby
Cheers Simon. Just the escape I need!
Just discovered your channel, great content and well made
I know the train is moving forwards but the smoke seems to be going back into the train! Oddest thing I've ever seen! Just found you and subscribed, watching your Norfolk coast series. Thank you for sharing such wonderful footage with us. I can see you really really go the extra mile for the footage! (pun intended).
Fantastic shots of the Norfolk Coast Simon. What we're in those ready meals you were eating? Is your foot better yet? All the best.
The breakfast was chocolate muesli and reindeer soup for lunch, unfortunately the footage of me tasking about them was un-usable due to wind noise (all of this episode was filmed on my phone)
Very Nice, Beautiful Place. Thanks for Sharing!!
Awesome video and amazing views, thanks for sharing your videos take care see on next video 👍
Great walk Simon, an area I know well and restrictions permitting, I'll be returning there again this summer. Just curious how the steam train at 6.47 sucks the smoke back into the smokestack...? 🤔Must be an optical illusion... 😉Atb, Paul.
Isn't everything a little backward in Norfolk?
I reversed the footage on the train - it was reversing originally!
Hope all is back to some sort of normality by the summer. 👍
Blackwater Bushcrafter - yeah, I was just looking through the replies to see who else noticed😜👍. To be fair, from a filmmakers perspective, it probably still looks more asthetic than the steam loco running 'backwards'.
Nice one Simon, with all the Covid virus info flying around, this is a timely and "back to planet earth" distraction. Thanks for taking us along. Stay well, atb
Wonderful walking trail loved the first part and loved this part 2 just as much.
Hi Simon, another fascinating video , the truth is that I find pleasure and comfort in following and watching your channel . Your efforts much appreciated ,Thanks a lot .👍✌️
Thank you Simon for a very interesting and informative video. I admire your strength and endurance in doing that walk carrying your belongings on your back. I walked from Cley to Cromer over two sections in 2020 and found it interesting seeing your video. Michael Parkinson
Hi Simon. Thanks for making another great video. In the clip where you were packing the tarp away I noticed the pegs you used looked to be quite wide and long. What make are they and are they specially designed for soft or loose ground? I camped on a beach last summer and tied the tarp guy lines to rocks because my pegs wouldn't stay buried under the shingle. It made me wonder what the solution would be if there had been no suitable rocks. Thank you.
Thanks Chris - the pegs are designed for soft sand and snow. Not sure of the make, but they coped well despite the blustery wind , they were inexpensive ones from amazon. 👍
Thanks for the reply Simon, I appreciate it. I will have a look on Amazon for the pegs. Cheers.
Love this video Simon, so much hard work that goes unnoticed in it, inspiring stuff
Simon.. Been following for awhile and love the vids.. Im in the area(fens), so love seeing placesi know (Cromer was my bread round uptil the covid... Now Southwold area... Thats beautiful if you ever get there!.. Thorpeness.. Unreal... However point to comment... Can you do the bannock / unleavened bread one day on a single gas burner... As youll know a lot of places wont allow a fire... Im a car camper by way
Just as amazing as part one 😜 being from the area of course I'm biased 😂 the pillbox on the beach, I'm planning a camp in soon. If I'm not stuck in, not being allowed out. All the best Simon. Can't wait to see your vids when you are back. Rob
You would still be in isolation, even on a busy day. Iam biased too.
Thanks mate - good spot for a camp! 👍
Simon!! I'm going to have come there some day. It would only be fitting. I really like the coast line.... looks amazing. And to sleep on the shore for a night, would be awesome. 👍👍
Keep up the great videos!!
Hi Simon,
That steamengine looked weird, it was going forward but the smoke/steam was going back in.
Cheers.
I really enjoy your videos along the coastal path, so much so that I would like to hike it myself...problem is, I live in Canada...so that would be a bit of a stretch. I noticed that you do not hike with a hiking stick/pole, I assume that is because of your camera and tripod? Once again, great series of videos.
Great content as always Simon. Sorry about your Camera - Is it properly dead or salvageable?
Thank you! It’s still playing up - can’t use video at all - after these crazy and worrying times are over, I’ll send it off for repair. 👍
My tip for people doing this section (heading east) is to look out for Seaview Carpark or Seaview Beach Café at West Runton Beach and leave the official path there, instead walk along the beach to Cromer and reconnect with the Norfolk Coast Path later.
What a beautiful part of this wonderful planet! Thanks so much for sharing and your time. I can't bare to watch the news anymore, thank you for the escape. Your videos are top notch Simon. Keep it the good work,can't wait for the next one!
Love watching these. Can't wait for the next one to Happisburgh. Love it there. :-)
Great video Simon, looked really refreshing, thanks for sharing👍
Now that's how you do a long distance walking video! Awesome stuff mate and well done so far. Brings back very fond memories of when I did it years ago. Always wanted to try wild camping up on gramborough hill lol even though you're not really supposed to. Owned by the NT. LOVING this series so far. Looking forward to the next part.
Thanks mate! 👍
Living in Norwich the N Norfolk coast isn't far away. Just another reason why some of us are so lucky to live and work in this fine county.
Awesome way to beat the coronavirus. And in style and with bushcraft too!
Um grande abraço aqui do Brasil.
Nice vídeo .
Nice video Simon 👍. Spectacular visters 👍👍.
Thank you for sharing 🙂✌🏼I really enjoyed it
love all of Norfolk,such a beautiful county,we live in suffolk so always our destination for a day out or holiday. stay safe and well. x
Really well done. Awesome views. Thanks for the video!
As always a real pleasure. The next part of the journey is the worst until you get to waxham . Then you get to the real jewel in the crown of the Norfolk Coast path, Winterton. My home villiage, bias! Lol
I know that area around Waxham quite well - many a family camping trip up there! 😁👍
Nice Video Simon. Thanks for taking us along.
Wow great video , but the wind is incessant ..Loved the scenery !!
This is great, thanks Simon👍👍👍
Now this was a nice series of video's Simon! Thanks for sharing. Btw: did your camera survive the trip in the end? ;-)
Thank you, sadly not - I’ll get it repaired when things get back to normal. 👍
I was hoping to wild camp along that coast but it looks difficult to hide away, I enjoyed the video though
Set up late and leave early,that’s the secret bud
I will do this walk eventually, I am keeping my walks local at the moment in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire the reason for this is to keep my walks very frequent every weekend I want a big walk, I will be doing another walk this weekend, you are welcome to join me for an adventure
Thanks Glen. 👍
Nice! I love it! I want to camp on the beach like that some day!
We’ll me and the wife have made the date for this walk thanks Simon 😁
Lovely video, how I, we, enjoy your outdoor adventurers.
Great series of videos, Simon. It's nice to see what hiking that part of the UK is like, so thanks for taking us along with you. BTW...I really love your DIY videos as well. Based on your design and fabricating skills, I'm guessing that you're some sort of technical professional. Maybe an engineer? Am I wrong?
Thanks Greg, I’m a joiner/carpenter. 👍
Brilliant fella. Excellent work. Stay safe
I'm absolutely hooked on your vids! Especially your 'Make it' vids. I'm a creative too so looking forward to your next make it. I've just watched them all on a binge. I've even just bought a second hand sewing machine because of them. Ideal to make and watch while on lockdown . Stay safe! Ps, have you thought of somehow making a Hot Tarp somehow? Ie stove and tarp tent?
Thanks Micky. 👍 Hot tarp - now there’s an idea! 👍🔥
Stunning video of this walk along a picturesque, and sadly disappearing coastline. Ever considered getting a drone to take with you on these trips to enhance the already breathtaking visuals ? Happy memories of holidays spent in that part of the UK in the 90s before moving out to S.E. Asia with my work in the mid noughties. Stunning scenery out this way and summer all year round👍ATB from sunny Malaysia 😎
I’ve envious of your sun!! I took a drone during the first stage, but just couldn’t fit it in this time - it’s a bulky thing to carry.
+Simon a bloke in the woods,
Another great video. Just one surprising thing missing maybe?
Not mentioning the mining with anti-tank mines on Saltash and Weybourne beaches? Both were demined by 33 Engineer Regiment EOD; but they never got all of them!! They wash in and out on the shingle with the tide.
Jonathan
Blimey! Glad I didn’t step on one!! 😅
Wonderful video with some gorgeous scenery. Thank you for the effort and hard work you put into these videos. Quick question, why do you call your beaches 'Shingle" beaches? I see small stones or pebbles everywhere. I guess that is a unique term used in your country?? Thank you again and take care. The Woodlands, Texas
Thank you, yes it’s just a term we use for beaches made up of pebbles rather than sand. 👍
Hello from Colorado - great video. I grew up in Sheringham and visit often. Walk this all the time. I'd recommend dropping down to the beach at West Runton, especially if the tide is out. Alternately, once you drop down the east side of Beeston Hill (bump) hang a right, cross the railway tracks, turn left on the Cromer road and just before the humpback bridge at West Runton take the dirt path headed south up to the North Norfolk Ridge and then follow the trails to Cromer. Its a wonderfully wooded walk.
Thank you! In my guide book, the path goes that way - through the woodland which I was looking forward to, but it seams the route of the path has been changed, to follow the coast - not sure it was the right choice! 👍
Bit if an old vid q, can you tell me Simon if OneTigris tent can take it's mossie net with the cooker employed as well?
No, the mosi net it designed to be used without the stove (but could be modified perhaps) 👍
Was it just me or did it look like the train was sucking smoke back into its funnel? Am I losing the plot due to the lockdown? Thanks for the lovely video, Simon!
It’s just a little bit of North Norfolk magic! 😂
Great series of videos, I had a surreal moment in Cromer, that of watching Memphis Belle in a completely empty cinema!
Thank you! I know that film got slated, but I really enjoyed it, can’t hear ‘Amazing grace’ without thinking of it! 👍
Great video as usual, but the Norfolk Coast Path is, dare I say it, just a little bit dull and all those holiday chalets near Cromer - yuk! Give me the South West Coastal Path any day for variety and lovely countryside, sorry.
No apologies necessary, this certainly doesn’t try to compete with other coastlines, they are all different and have their own merits - North Norfolk’s being those huge skies, the wide, wide salt marsh, ancient and pretty villages and lovely beaches (when they’re empty!) 👍
Thanks Simon excellent video.
Lovely music. Great video. 👍
We have visited that area so it was really nice to see it again. You put such a lot of effort into your films which makes them very relaxing to watch. Thanks and I hope you and your family are safe and well in this troubling time.
Thank you! Keep well.
Once again another great video, thanks Simon
I hope your camera can be rescued or repaired. The iPhone images looked good but the audio obviously is less capable with the internal mic rather than your usual.
Thank you! I need to sort out an external mic for my phone as backup. 👍
Thank you Simon. I always look forwards to your videos, you put a lot of thought in to making them. I hope you will make one withe the Baker tent in the wet to see how well it works. I would like to make one. and could you make a vid on how you made the polish lavvu? thank you.
Thank you! Hopefully get back out in the baker tent soon. 👍
Great journey . Thanks for sharing
Is the NNR train going backwards Simon😄😄
Haha - yes, well spotted, I put it in reverse for fun. 😁
Nice one Simon, I've done the Coastal Path here a few times. I found camping away from the shingle a better option, sheltered from the wind. That shingle beach is a killer to walk along. I found the whole remarkably quiet, until you get near to Cromer. Stay safe out there. Bob
How you got that smoke to go back into the steam train was amazing. Looking forward to the next one.
Very environmentally friendly, the trains around here! 😁👍
Really enjoying this series, nicely done :)
Maybe a stupid question, but why didn't you set your tarp up the other way around? Because of the view?
It was set up that to shelter me from the prevailing wind - a southerly that night, the cliff behind me was creating crazy eddying though, so it blew all over the place. 👍
Once we can travel again I think I'm going to have to take my first trip overseas and give this trek a shot. Thanks man.
Best time is out of season (September/October through to April) 👍
Thanks Simon! - Great trip..
The beaches are so Rocky in the UK it seems.. In the states there is alot more sand and less rock . Keep those feet in check Simon .. I'll see ya on the next one 😁
There is a good mix of sand and shingle - I definitely prefer sand! 😁👍
A real nice way to spend a couple of day. As always great camera work, beautifully filmed. Thanks Simon 👍
Another great Video mate, It's a shame that in maybe in less than a hundred years the path could disappear.
True! So much has already gone - I’ll pass Happisburgh in the next section - very poignant!
Great views to the lovely coast of Norfolk
Wow nice to see so much content on your channel. I like the Forrest ones better but nice to see variation to.
Have a nice evening Simon.
My favorite Simon vid is the Overnight Wild Canoe Camp from Sept 12, 2019. All my favorite elements and hand made kit
Wind can be a problem...that why I think the domes do best... any visitors crawfish crabs ???? Interesting..I like the thickets. Beautiful older building ..Thanks for walkabout
Cromer is famous for crabs - really good!
Thanks Julie. 👍
Thanks!
Thanks Simon, we are usually in Norfolk at this time of year but stuck at home due to lockdown. Your walks have really brightened up our half term but we are sad that you didn't mention Salthouse, one of our favourite places along that coast, or the mammoth that was found in the cliffs at West Runton. Looking forward to the next part!
Sorry just got to see this video Simon because of work , got to make a living .
These videos are so relaxing to watch, just what I need after a long day , I get to set back and look at these Beautiful places and think how lucky people are to live there . You waving at yourself was a good shot . Good job and thanks again, ATB !
Thanks Bloke! I had fun...
Great video Simon!
Beautiful beaches, loved the history lesson. Beautiful little coastal town.. looked like you had a very nice walk, thank you for sharing!
ATB
It was a beautiful & peaceful trek loaded with history. Thanks for sharing. Safe travels & God bless 🙏🏼⛺️😎
Thanks Simon, as always, I really enjoyed this video, and what's more, it took my mind off the coronavirus.
Awesome job Simon! Was Abit disappointed I couldn't spot myself driving around there as Norfolk is my main adventure ground. Maybe bump into you at some point. Love the videos keep it up! :) Matt.
Great video simon fantastic view
The only problem with the Norfolk coast is the sea has the colour of a blocked toilet.
Hahaha - true!
Hi Simon! Thanks for showing us another part of the Norfolk Coast Path! ATB André
Beautiful scenery and the landscape often interesting at different scales on this hike. Thanks for hauling us along, friend. A big hug to Mags.
Fantastic memories of childhood holidays 👍👌😀 Brilliant set of videos!