Holkham Hall
Neo-Palladian house built for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, to designs by William Kent.
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Salt marsh, dunes and seals between a harbour town, a Palladian house and flint villages
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Wells-next-the-Sea is a small harbour town on the north Norfolk coast, with a quay on the north side of the A149 coast road. To the west, the Holkham estate holds Holkham Hall, built in the Neo-Palladian style for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Holkham National Nature Reserve, with grazing marsh, pine woods, dunes and beach.
East of Wells, Blakeney and Cley next the Sea face the salt marsh. Blakeney Point, a shingle and dune spit cared for by the National Trust since 1912, has a mixed colony of harbour and grey seals, and seal-watching boat trips leave from Blakeney and Morston. Inland, Walsingham has been a pilgrimage centre since the Middle Ages.
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Neo-Palladian house built for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, to designs by William Kent.
One of the largest national nature reserves in England: grazing marsh, pine woods, salt marsh, dunes and foreshore.
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Working harbour and quay of Wells-next-the-Sea, on the north side of the A149 coast road.
Small-gauge railway running four miles from Wells to Walsingham on the trackbed of a branch line closed in the 1960s.
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National Trust reserve on a shingle and dune spit about 6.4 km long, with a colony of harbour and grey seals.
Medieval undercroft in an alley off Blakeney quay, an English Heritage scheduled monument.
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The map shows Wells, Holkham & Blakeney and the streets around it. The Getting there page lists nearby stops and stations.
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There is no station at Wells. The Coastliner 36 from King's Lynn and the Coasthopper from Cromer meet at Wells.
Seal-watching boat trips run from Blakeney and Morston harbours to Blakeney Point; book with an operator and check the tides.
Grey seals breed at Blakeney Point between November and January, and the pups stay on the beach for their first weeks.
The Norfolk Coast Path follows this stretch of coast, passing Burnham Overy Staithe, Wells, Morston, Blakeney and Cley next the Sea.
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Norfolk and the Broads
A medieval port on the Great Ouse, a Norman castle and the royal Sandringham estate
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A Norman cathedral and castle, a 900-year-old market and medieval lanes in the county city
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Boatyards, river trips and broads on the River Bure, a train ride from Norwich
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