A hugely surprising and enjoyable walk along the North Norfolk coast from Sheringham to Beacon Hill, the highest point in the county, and back again. This area has everything, sun, sea, woodland, farmland and some brilliant views. @rodz_routes
just arrived in uh sheringham on the North norfor Coast and going to do a walk which is uh three hills beaston Hill Beacon Hill and then Stone Hill and reason doing this in North Norfolk is because I have a plan to climb the highest hill or peak in each of the 15 national parks in the UK one of those national parks is the norfol broads and if you’re familiar with the geography of norfol and the norfol broads in particular you all know that it’s absolutely flat as a pancake and some of it’s probably beneath sea level so there are no Peaks so taking the county of nori we’ve discovered that the highest peak is on the North Nori Coast near chroma uh just outside sheringham and it’s called Beacon Hill so we’re going to do that it’s only about 105 MERS but apparently there’s a nice walk along uh Coastal path uh from sheram to choma up onto the hills and then back again this is a North norol Coastal path just the beginning of this part of it in uh sharing them that’s the beach Huts we’re going to walk a bit further along with the sea to our left as far as we can get and then we’ll turn turn South go in land and uh go up the hills and see what sort of views we can get okay there’s our little Trail up to uh Beast Hill very sheltered up here was bit windy down by the season but uh and shelter [Applause] I can’t remember how big this hill is but I’ll uh I’ll check it out and get a uh get a graphic up as I say this this isn’t the largest one today the largest ones or the highest if you want to call it that is Beacon Hill and that’ll be 105 M put that into perspective scaffold Pike in the Lake District is just short of a th000 m so it it really is not uh it’s not a very high hill but apparently the views are uh pretty good so we’ll uh find out in a [Music] sec [Music] okay first Hill up beaston hill Lo locally is beast and bump and we’re just heading up this way and that’s the hill up there look like there’s some steps here it’s quite a steep the view from uh there was a little bench back there just on the cliff top and the view is really really lovely back to sheringham and uh back Inland to the South so hopefully we’ll get a good one from Top here that’s steep steep step nice and dry today bit more to go to Corner I going to go this way there we go easier than the steps just show you back where we’ve come from so that’s the coastal path there the brown path in the middle sharing them in the background and that’s looking South back into Norfolk and this top Hilltop here beast and bump don’t know if there’s any uh is there any marker on there to say that we’re at the top or anything it’s just a oh yeah here we go there’s a little uh there a little trick Point that’s a surprise didn’t expect that it’s always nice to get a little trig point just to indicate that you’re definitely in the right place customary trick Point selfies as well we go so there we are on the map so East angle has a bit that sticks out and uh right on the top of that beaston Hill caring them if you go around the coast to the east you’ve got chroma and then it starts to come down towards uh through nor and suffk and here’s the trick point we’re just coming up to the end of the coastal path we’ve got about I don’t know about a kilometer left and uh we’re at West runton Beach and you got a great view all the way around towards chromer if you just see the very end Cliff there that’s sticking out I don’t know if you can make it out you can just see chroma Pier just sticking out from the uh from the right hand side there into the sea and uh just discovered an interesting fact about West runton Beach in the 1990s they discovered a full skeleton of a uh Willie Mammoth and they’ve uh they’ve dug it up along with some other fossils and uh there’s a um a model of it back there but unfortunately the uh shop place is closed for the season otherwise we could have seen what it looks like they have a model outside which is like a a a metal mockup so I’ll put that on [Music] camera [Music] a so we’ve left the coastal path now and we’ve uh come South we head along the main road for a little short walk probably 100 yards or so and we’re now double back on ourselves onto this leafy sort of farmyard kind of Trail which will then burand around to the left into some Forest and head up towards Beacon Hill so it’s uh different set of views now the next part of the walk it’s lovely and warm you can believe it was first of October today and it feels like in the middle of summer crazy country the weather in those countries you can never rely on it and you can never predict it [Music] SL [Music] we’re uh heading sou I think we’re about to uh pick up the uh path to Beacon Hill well we’re on we’re on the path to Beacon Hill but the the one that goes more uphill it’s a little bit flat of the minute we’ve just come through a little bit of a Farm trail with a little bit of forest a bit of a wooded area and uh just through that open open field area and heading back in it’s very um it’s very variable the terrain one make you’re on like a a grally path down a lane across a Railway Bridge across a North North railway and then Excuse me while I’m I’m talking I’m looking down because a bit bumpy uh yeah across the railway and then down another grally track and then into through a farm and then through some HED Ros like this a hedge tunnel and uh yeah it’s starting to go up now as I say this hill is not um even though it’s the biggest hill in Norfolk the highest hill in nor highest point in norol it’s not uh it’s not particularly high as 100 103 I think or 105 depending on what literature you look at uh but it’s yeah just over 100 m so I mean it actually looks higher from what I’ve seen of it because norfolk’s such a flat County that when you get up to any high point you can usually see everything not everything but you can usually see quite a long way so I’m looking forward to it nice and shaded in here as well it’s very warm back there it’s nice gentle gradient easy on the legs Let’s uh let’s pick it up again right at the top I’ll see in a bit so we’re just crossing this little bit of farmland and then heading into these woods and I think just in the center of the picture there the uh radio tower or TV master mobile phone Mast is likely to be Beacon Hill so we’re uh we’re almost there just another little wooded walk by looks of it up to [Music] it we’re just in the wooded area just heading up to Beacon him we’ve just come across these really strange trees you can see the uh they’re growing out the way but then they’re uh bending up and across and kind of back on themselves there’s the route there this one goes up and around and back on itself and down the other side that Branch there’s coming out as well that’s actually coming out of that big big trunk really strange right we’re heading this way path’s going up now you can you can actually feel it earlier on I was wondering whether we were just going to stumble across the top of the hill without actually realizing it but it’s it’s it’s noticeably you know you’ve got a gradient now this is lovely to walk on it’s all spongy nice and shaded it’s a nice wide path as well really really enjoying this walk it’s been uh been really variable some nice scenery along the coast and there some nice little lanes and wooded areas as you come Inland kind of surprised I wasn’t wasn’t really expecting in much from it but yeah definitely definitely enjoying it yeah so in the end the radio tower wasn’t the uh the Beacon Hill however it’s a very good Landmark so if you’re heading to Beacon Hill from that that direction that we’ve just come um look for the radio tower when you get get to it pass it pass it with your back to it so turn right when you get to it and cross the main road um and then you head towards the Roman Camp Caravan Park and you will find this is it this is Beacon Hill or Roman camp now there’s no record of there ever being any Roman settlement around the hill um it’s more likely it was used as a uh a point with a fire beacon on it to navigate um and there’s a story that says that some uh coaching in people came up with the name Roman Camp to try and boost tourism and try and encourage people to it so there’s no trig point so I guess we’ll just go and uh stand on the flag and this is it the highest point in Norfolk should have been the Northfolk broads as the national park but because there’s no high point on the broads we’ve decided to uh do the highest point in Nork instead I have to say despite its uh despite it modest height the walk up to it is really really good because it’s just the tail end of summer as well everything’s a bit overgrown so there’s not really a view out back to the uh the sea but you can the lights really flat today but that is actually the sea between the uh between the trees and the Bracken there um I can try and zoom in you can see a little red boy floating there we go there gives you a perspective so there’s the see Beacon Hill Roman Camp so heading away from Roman Camp Beacon Hill now and onto to Stone Hill and I don’t know how we managed it but we we got to Beacon Hill we did the uh did the little 360 there looked at the view and then for some reason we went completely back on ourselves back to the radar Tower and headed south instead of head in East so the uh the walking map of this uh route is going to show a lot of uh doubling back and a lot of blobs where we’ve come back on ourselves but we’re on we’re on the right track now and uh we’re heading to Stone Hill so that’s the third Hill on today’s walk and apparently it’s got the best views so we should get a better view of the North Sea rather than just a little gray splash of color through the the trees that we we got from Beacon Hill there’s a squirrel got a bog we’re on the way to Stone Hill ow ow ow but we’ve got a bog and brambles to negotiate okay this is uh didn’t expect this a bit of a it’s a bit of a low point on the track where the uh the warden Park wardens come through I think the tire tracks and obviously uh then filled with water and turned it into a big Marsh right done heading back up hill now that’s good about two inches taller now there we go that’s much much drier path we thought we might have been out Stone Hill just there there was a little clearing and we spoke to some locals and they said um I said is this Stone Hill by any chance said oh we’ve never heard of it we don’t know and I said oh sorry I thought you might be local and they said yeah we are but we’ve not had a Stone Hill so they you go it might be a little Hidden Gem in the uh North Norfolk Woodland we shall find out just trying to find our last Hill which is Stone Hill we just we think it’s the next clearing along but we’ve we’ve got to this clearing and there’s a great view of beaston Hill and the North Sea you see a nice uh nice view there with the uh container tanker coming across the sea let’s head back and head along to the next one and uh see if we can find Stone Hill okay with a bit of luck or try an eror or educated guessing or expert navigation any of the above we believe we are now at Stonehill here we go here’s the trick point and there is the view back to beast and bump straight ahead of us and you’ve got the coastal path along to the uh to the east there to the right hand side of the picture and you’ve got sheringham back to the left and on top of here there’s a little uh like Compass thing which is got some landmarks on it so what have we got here so starting to the left we’ve got scaling Hill so I’ll just uh trying to show you there so scaling Hill is just the one that’s is sticking up you see there’s a big house in the center a big building scaling Hill is just to the left of that I’ll just zoom in on that there we go a scaling Hill right on the cliff top and then we’ve got beaston Regis Hills which are straight ahead of us we were on top of that earlier on when we started our walk uh we’ve got All Saints Church at beast and Regis which I’ll just zoom in on again because it’s a little bit hidden on this view the light is very flat and gray today it was Liv Sunny earlier on but it’s become a bit overcast there we go there All Saints Church beast and reges um back this way there’s another church uh Holy Trinity West runon which you can’t quite see and then off this way I’ll zoom out again directly that way to the east is Beacon Hill where we’ve just been and next part of our walk then is is to basically head back down this path here and then back into uh back into sheringham and that will complete that’s the norfol Three Peaks complete got beaston Hill Beacon Hill Stone Hill [Music]