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North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest

The North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is an area of European importance for wildlife in Norfolk, England.

The place

The North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is an area of European importance for wildlife in Norfolk, England. It comprises 7,700 ha (19,027 acres) of the county's north coast from just west of Holme-next-the-Sea to Kelling, and is additionally protected through Natura 2000, Special Protection Area (SPA) listings; it is also part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The North Norfolk Coast is also designated as a wetland of international importance on the Ramsar list and most of it is a Biosphere Reserve.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest

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.

    3.3 km · Ruined building on the North Norfolk coast of England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.2 km · church in Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    1.7 km · church in Blakeney, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.4 km · Shell museum in Glandford, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cockthorpe Common, Stiffkey

    Cockthorpe Common, Stiffkey is a 7.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    3.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Morston Cliff

    Morston Cliff is a 1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    2.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stiffkey Valley

    Stiffkey Valley is a 44.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    3.4 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    3.5 km · Geological site in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Wiveton Hall

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

    2.4 km · grade II listed country house in Norfolk, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest

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London Stansted (STN), 129 km · London Luton (LTN), 151 km · East Midlands (EMA), 157 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest

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 North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest. 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

    268 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    435 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    526 km

If you know how people move in North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest

  • Blakeneyvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK1.4 km
  • Cley-Next-the-Seavillage in Norfolk, North Norfolk, England, UK2.9 km
  • Morstonvillage in Norfolk, England, UK1 km
  • Langhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.3 km
  • Saxlinghamvillage in Norfolk, England, UK4 km
  • Norfolk Coast AONBarea of outstanding natural beauty in England2.6 km