Mundesley via Gimingham and Trunch

Explore pretty flint villages and surrounding farmland using a mix of quiet lanes and rural footpaths linking three village Conservation Areas

Getting started

Catch Sanders bus service 5 between Sheringham and North Walsham (Gold Park stop) or service 34 Stalham to North Walsham (sea front stop).

Timetable information can be found on the Traveline website or telephone 0871 200 22 33.

Unfamiliar with the area? This walk is quite complicated with lots of twists and turns. You might find it helpful to take a map with you. The Ordnance Survey map covering this area in the Explorer Series is Norfolk Coast East, map number 252.

Refreshments

Mundesley has several cafes, restaurants, public houses and shops to chose from at the start or finish of the walk.

When you have walked approximately 4 miles you reach the village of Trunch. Close to the church you could call in at the Corner Stores on North Walsham Road for an ice-cream or drink, or visit the Crown Inn public house on Front Street, a real ale public house listed in the C.A.M.R.A Good Beer Guide.

What to expect

This challenging 6.7 mile walk takes about 3.5 hours to complete.

The walk includes 4 ‘quiet lanes’, which are quiet country roads particularly suitable for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. It also includes several public footpaths and bridleways across fields linked by a series of stiles and bridges.

After walking only a few minutes out of Mundesley, you can experience the peace and quiet of the countryside in this ‘hidden’ area of North Norfolk.

Version: Nov/2016

Gimingham

Mundesley via Gimingham and Trunch

The Norfolk Coast area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) is one of 42 AONBs in England and Wales, which together with 13 national parks comprise our finest landscapes, rich in wildlife and cultural heritage.

The Norfolk Coast Partnership is funded by Defra and local authorities to bring local organisations together to conserve and enhance the area’s natural beauty and promote its sustainable use and enjoyment

The landscape

Mundesley Beck flows through the bottom of a small river valley. The walk takes you through pasture and rough grazing at the bottom of this valley via a series of bridges over the beck and other ditches. The valley has gentle side slopes. A sense of enclosure increases towards the bottom of the valley with more open views from the upper slopes.

The inter-connected chain of valley pastures are an important part of Norfolk’s ecological network, providing a wildlife corridor linking woodland and grassland habitats with the coast.

Along the way . . .

The valleys were a focus for early Saxon settlement, particularly at fording points. Place names ending in ‘ham’ such as Gimingham, suggest their Saxon origins. The flint buildings and walls are typical of many of Norfolk’s coastal villages.

St Botolph’s Church in Trunch contains one of the most exciting ecclesiastical treasures in Norfolk, a stunning carved medieval font canopy. This is particularly fascinating because it was constructed in the early 16th Century, on the eve of the protestant Reformation.

Want to see where Mundesley Beck finishes?

At the end of the walk when you are walking along the High Street in Mundesley, look out for Beckmeadow Drive on the right and walk down here, turn right and carry on at the end onto a public footpath leading to Beach Road. Near the end, you will see this rather intriguing view of Mundesley mill pond, considerably higher than the sea in the distance.

Look over the wooden fence at the end of the pond to see the remains of a post medieval water mill - a water wheel set in a flint race. An early 19th Century miller’s house is on the far side of the pond.

Mundesley Beck, Gimingham

St Botolph’s Church, Trunch

Mundesley mill pond

Along the way . . .

Mundesley via Gimingham and Trunch

Mundesley

Walk instructions

1 Start at the Information Centre on Station Road. Walk up Station Road and turn left onto Links Road. As the road turns sharp left at the end into the golf course, turn right onto the public footpath beside the golf course. This is signposted as a ‘footpath to Gimingham’.

After passing the golf course the path continues in the same direction across a series of fields: there are several stiles to climb before reaching the village of Gimingham.

2 Turn right in the village, keep left at the fork in the road and then turn left onto Heath Lane. Heath Lane is the first of several ‘quiet lanes’. Pass a house on the corner and then a barn a little further along the road.

3 Turn left immediately after the barn onto a footpath: this is part of the Paston Way long distance path.

Walk along the edge of the field down to Mundesley Beck, cross three bridges and continue up the hill towards the farm. The public footpath bears left onto a track through the farmyard to Hall Road.

4 Cross Hall Road onto the footpath almost opposite (slightly to the right). Keep the hedge on your left. At the end bear left and then right around the edge of the field to reach Southrepps Road.

5 Turn left at the road and then right onto a bridleway. Walk up this tree lined path to Trunch Road.

Turn left onto Trunch Road, then right onto another field edge footpath.

6 At the end, turn left onto Brewery Road.

On reaching Trunch, turn right and walk through the barriers on the public footpath signed ‘Bradfield 1.5 miles’. This footpath starts at the junction with Wrights Loke and finishes opposite the church.

7 Walk along North Walsham Road for a short distance then turn second right onto Brick Kiln Lane. Stay on this final ‘quiet lane’ to Mundesley.

8 Turn right at the T-junction onto Mundesley Road. Pass the schools and fire station and turn left at the next T-junction onto the High Street. Follow the High Street, keeping right at the fork, through the village to reach the Information Centre start point.

Explore More tip . . . before turning left to continue the walk you could visit St Botolph’s Church or call in at Crown Inn beyond the church or the Corner Stores for refreshments. Return to point 7.

Mundesley via Gimingham and Trunch

Published by Norfolk Coast Partnership — www.norfolkcoastaonb.org.uk

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