Routes: Kelling Heath Holiday Park is the perfect base to explore the trails and
quiet lanes that criss-cross the holiday areas of North Norfolk. Visitors
hiring cycles can choose a free route sheet for the day, and those with
their own cycles can buy one when they arrive. Scroll down this page for
examples of the many routes.
Also available is Activity Routes from Kelling Heath... a great A5 booklet (pictured) packed with 32 pages of routes, enough to keep you cycling and walking for a fortnight! All feature interesting destinations. Buy it on-site for £3 (or £3.75 by post from the author - make your payment out to Sam Weller and send to Ash House, 28 Bure Way, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6HJ).
Holt Explorer. A trip to the North Norfolk Railway station at Holt (4 miles there and back) and on to the Georgian market town and its country park (8 miles there and back). Traffic-free to the station then quiet back lanes into Holt.
On park Puzzle-it-Out ride. A fun 5-mile ride that stays within the grounds of Kelling Heath Holiday Park. It’s signed, but you have to keep your eyes peeled so you don’t miss any turnings!!!
Huff & Puff with the North Norfolk Railway. A full day out. A circular trip combining a largely traffic-free ride of 5.5 miles with a journey on the North Norfolk Railway from Sheringham to Holt. Special price deal exclusive to cycle hirers.
Time for Tea+Garden Centre. A quick hop on this 3.5-mile circular ride (a mix of tracks and quiet lanes) to the local Emcy garden centre and tearoom.
Time for Tea+Art. A memorable visit to the unusual tearoom in the village of Kelling. It also sells second-hand books, collectables, and art! A 5.5-mile circular trip on tracks and quiet lanes (with one moderate hill).
Sheringham Park Easy Rider. A flat and traffic-free excursion into the grounds of the National Trust's Sheringham Park (where young riders can enjoy the free loan of a Tracker Pack to get the most out of the park). An out-and-back route of 4.5 miles, or an optional circular ride of 5.5 miles that includes a visit to the Victorian Weybourne Station.
Also available is Activity Routes from Kelling Heath... a great A5 booklet (pictured) packed with 32 pages of routes, enough to keep you cycling and walking for a fortnight! All feature interesting destinations. Buy it on-site for £3 (or £3.75 by post from the author - make your payment out to Sam Weller and send to Ash House, 28 Bure Way, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6HJ).
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YOUR ROUTE
The easy riding options
YOUR ROUTE
The easy riding options
Holt Explorer. A trip to the North Norfolk Railway station at Holt (4 miles there and back) and on to the Georgian market town and its country park (8 miles there and back). Traffic-free to the station then quiet back lanes into Holt.
On park Puzzle-it-Out ride. A fun 5-mile ride that stays within the grounds of Kelling Heath Holiday Park. It’s signed, but you have to keep your eyes peeled so you don’t miss any turnings!!!
Huff & Puff with the North Norfolk Railway. A full day out. A circular trip combining a largely traffic-free ride of 5.5 miles with a journey on the North Norfolk Railway from Sheringham to Holt. Special price deal exclusive to cycle hirers.
Time for Tea+Garden Centre. A quick hop on this 3.5-mile circular ride (a mix of tracks and quiet lanes) to the local Emcy garden centre and tearoom.
Time for Tea+Art. A memorable visit to the unusual tearoom in the village of Kelling. It also sells second-hand books, collectables, and art! A 5.5-mile circular trip on tracks and quiet lanes (with one moderate hill).
Sheringham Park Easy Rider. A flat and traffic-free excursion into the grounds of the National Trust's Sheringham Park (where young riders can enjoy the free loan of a Tracker Pack to get the most out of the park). An out-and-back route of 4.5 miles, or an optional circular ride of 5.5 miles that includes a visit to the Victorian Weybourne Station.
Bit more of a challenge?
High Point & Castle Explorer. A 10-mile
trip on quiet lanes to almost the highest point in Norfolk (a truly staggering
275 feet!) and the atmospheric ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle. Plus options
to visit two great pubs... and a quick strike on Beckham Palace!!! Don’t
miss it (it’s not too hilly).
Wiveton, Cley & Glandford Explorer. A mostly quiet lanes ride that follows a 13-mile circular route. Two great pubs in Wiveton and Cley, and the unusual Shell Museum and river ford in Glandford. Option to visit Letheringsett Mill. Couple of moderate uphills, but you can always walk.
Kelling Coastal Explorer. Fascinating off-road and quiet lanes 9-mile route that visits the coast and the village of Salthouse (the annual summer art show in the church is a must). Great journey, great views, choice of refreshments (try fish and chips on the beach). Some rougher off-road stretches but these are short and easily walked. Short but sharp hill out of Salthouse (but great sea views and good for the heart!). Not suited to child seats or tag cycles.
Sheringham Park & Town Explorer. A mix of tracks and quiet lanes on this exploration to the National Trust’s Sheringham Park (visit the 40-foot viewing tower), the village of Upper Sheringham, and on into Sheringham itself if you wish. An out-and-back 8-mile trip if you do the whole ride, or stop in the park for a picnic (or a nearby pub). Steady uphill on parts of the return journey.
Sheringham Priory Maze & Gardens Explorer. A 2-mile extension to the Sheringham Park ride. It travels back streets and tracks to just beyond the town to visit the ruins of Beeston Priory, and the next door Priory Gardens Tearoom and Maze.
A Pig of a Ride. Not quite as bad as it sounds, but a fun ride that ends up in the Three Pigs public house in the hamlet of Edgefield (run by the people who own the Byfords cake shop and tearoom in Holt). Uses a mix of traffic-free trails and quiet lanes.
Wiveton, Cley & Glandford Explorer. A mostly quiet lanes ride that follows a 13-mile circular route. Two great pubs in Wiveton and Cley, and the unusual Shell Museum and river ford in Glandford. Option to visit Letheringsett Mill. Couple of moderate uphills, but you can always walk.
Kelling Coastal Explorer. Fascinating off-road and quiet lanes 9-mile route that visits the coast and the village of Salthouse (the annual summer art show in the church is a must). Great journey, great views, choice of refreshments (try fish and chips on the beach). Some rougher off-road stretches but these are short and easily walked. Short but sharp hill out of Salthouse (but great sea views and good for the heart!). Not suited to child seats or tag cycles.
Sheringham Park & Town Explorer. A mix of tracks and quiet lanes on this exploration to the National Trust’s Sheringham Park (visit the 40-foot viewing tower), the village of Upper Sheringham, and on into Sheringham itself if you wish. An out-and-back 8-mile trip if you do the whole ride, or stop in the park for a picnic (or a nearby pub). Steady uphill on parts of the return journey.
Sheringham Priory Maze & Gardens Explorer. A 2-mile extension to the Sheringham Park ride. It travels back streets and tracks to just beyond the town to visit the ruins of Beeston Priory, and the next door Priory Gardens Tearoom and Maze.
A Pig of a Ride. Not quite as bad as it sounds, but a fun ride that ends up in the Three Pigs public house in the hamlet of Edgefield (run by the people who own the Byfords cake shop and tearoom in Holt). Uses a mix of traffic-free trails and quiet lanes.
And now the big ones!
Cromer Challenge. A twisting, turning, and
totally absorbing mostly off-road ride that travels to Sheringham then
onwards to Cromer and its famous pier. 19 miles there and back (22 miles
if you return by the Norfolk Coast Cycleway - which includes a visit
to the National Trust’s Felbrigg Hall). Not suited to child seats
or tag cycles. Some hard sections. You’ll love us or hate us for this one!
Norfolk Coast Cycleway. Not shown on our maps. So much to see and do on this journey of discovery which travels quiet lanes for 59 miles from Cromer to King’s Lynn (and now with an extension from Cromer to Great Yarmouth). Easy access from Kelling Heath. Try it all, or just part. Ask here for our special map pack (£2).
Glaven Valley & Mannington Hall road rides.Two circular road rides of around 23 miles using quiet lanes and exploring attractions such as Letheringsett Mill, the Shell Museum, and Baconsthorpe Castle.
Norfolk Coast Cycleway. Not shown on our maps. So much to see and do on this journey of discovery which travels quiet lanes for 59 miles from Cromer to King’s Lynn (and now with an extension from Cromer to Great Yarmouth). Easy access from Kelling Heath. Try it all, or just part. Ask here for our special map pack (£2).
Glaven Valley & Mannington Hall road rides.Two circular road rides of around 23 miles using quiet lanes and exploring attractions such as Letheringsett Mill, the Shell Museum, and Baconsthorpe Castle.
