North Norfolk 8-12 Dec 25

We had to cancel a planned trip to Burnham Deepdale at the last minute earlier in the year when the 12v system on the van started playing up. The lovely people at the campsite very kindly allowed us to rebook the visit rather than losing our payment and, accordingly, we just about managed to squeeze a four night break in before the end of the year.

It was raining when we set out on the Monday for the shortish hop up to Burnham Deepdale. The fact that we were stuck behind tractors on the A141 for a time enabled us to achieve 31mpg on the route out, albeit it made the journey slightly longer, but that didn't matter. We arrived at around 1pm, set up on a lovely pitch overlooking fields and a distant woods, and we  settled down until the rain stopped before heading out for a walk. As always the tide was out but we did enjoy looking at the mussel landing place at Brancaster Staithe before retiring to the Jolly Sailors in Brancaster for dinner (Brancaster Mussels - delicious!) and to watch "Nelson's Shantymen" practice.

Mussels on Brancaster Staithe

Brancaster Staithe

50m from sea to table

Nelson's Shantymen

On Tuesday we took another long walk along the boardwalk from Burnham Deepdale, past Brancaster Staithe and on to Brancaster before heading back to the White Horse for a pint and then back to the van for dinner.

St Mary's at Burnham Deepdale. A beautiful flint round tower church.

Brancaster Staithe

Old AA Box at Brancaster

The next day we jumped on the bus to Burnham Market, mooched around a bit then walked to Burnham Thorpe, Nelson's birthplace. It was nice to see All Saints church where his father was Rector and where he was baptized.  The Church, obviously, has a lot of Nelson references. We had lunch and a pint in the lovely Lord Nelson pub (excellent fish and chips and very friendly staff), before heading back to Burnham Market to catch the bus home. 

View from our pitch

Burnham Market

The largest hat shop in the UK

All Saints Church, Burnham Thorpe

Thursday was meant to be an easy day after all the walking of the previous days. We caught the bus into Wells Next The Sea and then....walked. Along the harbourside for a mile or so until we arrived at the beach, admired the flat calm sea, then back into the lifeboat station for a quick tour. Heading back to town we stopped for lunch at the Golden Fleece before having a good mooch around, enjoying the peace and tranquillity of a December day in Norfolk (it was crowded and noisy here when we visited in the summer).

On Friday we packed up and were home within 2 hours.

Burnham Deepdale is a great site. Incredibly friendly and helpful staff, beautifully kept wetrooms and spacious pitches. We would very much like to visit here again.