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Cley next the Sea

Cley next the Sea is a village and civil parish on the River Glaven in the English county of Norfolk.

Cley next the Sea
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The place

Cley next the Sea is a village and civil parish on the River Glaven in the English county of Norfolk.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cley next the Sea

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Blakeney Chapel

    Blakeney Chapel is a ruined building on the coast of North Norfolk, England. Despite its name, it was probably not a chapel, nor is it in the adjoining village of Blakeney, but rather in the parish of Cley next the Sea.

    1.5 km · Ruined building on the North Norfolk coast of England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Nicholas Church, Blakeney

    St Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Blakeney, Norfolk, in the deanery of Holt and the Diocese of Norwich. The church was founded in the 13th century, but the greater part of the church dates from the 15th century when Blakeney was a seaport of some importance.

    1.2 km · church in Blakeney, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Margaret's, Cley

    St Margaret's is the Anglican parish church of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, in the deanery of Holt, the Archdeaconry of Lynn and the Diocese of Norwich. The dedication is to St Margaret of Antioch.

    700 m · church in Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Randall's Folly

    Randall's Folly was a building on the coast at Salthouse, Norfolk, England. No trace of it remains, largely because of coastal erosion.

    3.6 km · building on the coast at Salthouse, Norfolk, England, of which no trace remains · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wiveton Hall

    Wiveton Hall is a country house in Wiveton, Norfolk, England. It is Grade II* listed.

    700 m · grade II listed country house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Blakeney Guildhall

    Blakeney Guildhall is a building in the coastal village of Blakeney in the north of the county of Norfolk. The property is in the care of English Heritage but is managed by the local parish council.

    1.7 km · medieval building in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Shell Museum

    The Shell Museum in Glandford, Norfolk is the oldest museum in the county and holds one of the country's largest collections of sea shells. It was founded by Alfred Jodrell.

    2.3 km · Shell museum in Glandford, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bayfield Hall

    Bayfield Hall is a Grade II* listed building which stands in a small estate close to the village of Letheringsett and the hamlet of Glandford in the English county of Norfolk within the United Kingdom. The house that stands today was built in the last part of the 18 century replacing an earlier manor house thought to have been built in the 16 century.

    3.3 km · English country house in Letheringsett with Glandford, North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Wiveton Downs

    Wiveton Downs is a 28.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Wiveton, west of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk. Part of it is a Geological Conservation Review site, and an area of 6.5-hectare is a Local Nature Reserve.

    2.3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Glandford (Letheringsett Road)

    Glandford is a 1.1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Sheringham in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and it is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    2.8 km · Geological site in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Cley Marshes Visitor Centre

    Cley Marshes Visitor Centre, Coast Road, NR25 7SA (off the A149 Coast Road, signposted),.

  2. 02
    Pinkfoot Gallery

    High Street, Cley, NR25 7RB (on the corner of A149 New Road and High Street), info@pinkfootgallery.co.uk.

  3. 03
    Seals at Blakeney National Nature Reserve
  4. 04
    Cley Windmill

    See Cley Windmill towering over the marshes.

  5. 05
    The Shell Museum

    Glandford, The Shell Museum Glandford, Church House, Glandford, NR25 7JR, glandfordshellmuseum@outlook.com.

From Wikivoyage: Cley next the Sea, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Walk the Norfolk Coast Path

    Walk from Cley to Blakeney along the Norfolk Coast Path, a dividing line between the salt and freshwater marshes.

From Wikivoyage: Cley next the Sea, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Wiveton Hall

    A café serving cakes and coffee during the daytimes.

  2. 02
    The Wiveton Bell

    Blakeney Road, Wiveton, NR25 7TL, info@wivetonbell.co.uk.

  3. 03
    Cookie's Crab Shop

    Salthouse, The Green, Coast Road, Salthouse, NR25 7AJ,.

From Wikivoyage: Cley next the Sea, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Cley next the Sea

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 131 km · London Luton (LTN), 153 km · East Midlands (EMA), 160 km
  • London, Essex → Cley next the Sea
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £19–25
  • London → Cley next the Sea
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £19–25
  • Luton, Luton → Cley next the Sea
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cley next the Sea

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cley next the Sea. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFerry tours depart from Morston Quay, in the next village.

From Wikivoyage: Cley next the Sea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    265 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    437 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    496 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    528 km

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