Holkham Beach
A wide sandy beach stretching for several kilometers behind pine-fringed dunes. At low tide it seems endless, and it is counted among Britain's most beautiful beaches.
Holkham Beach lies within the Holkham National Nature Reserve. From the Lady Anne's Drive car park beside Holkham Hall, you walk through Corsican pine woodland to reach it. At low tide the sand is over a kilometer wide beneath a vast sky, and the final scene of Shakespeare in Love was filmed here. The dunes and salt marshes host large numbers of waterbirds, and in winter flocks of pink-footed geese fly overhead. Parking is charged by time slot. The tide comes in quickly after low water, so never walk out to distant sandbanks.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Holkham Hall
- Wells Beach & Beach Huts
- Wells-next-the-Sea Quay & Town
- Wells and Walsingham Light Railway
- Burnham Market
- Walsingham
- Binham Priory
- Thursford Collection & Christmas Spectacular