Nearest Blue Flag Beaches Norfolk
Blue Flag beaches in , Norfolk, United Kingdom, the Blue Flag award is a prestigious, international award scheme that aims to provide an assurance to tourists that a beach has met a minimum standard. To collect a Blue Flag any UK and Ireland beach must achieve the highest quality of water, facilities, safety, environmental education and management.
Below we list the current Norfolk beaches holding the Blue Flag award.
- Sheringham beach is a sandy beach that all but disappears at high tide, but as the tide goes out you get an expanse of sand and rock pools. Facilities include parking, toilets with disabled facilities, showers, beach huts, cafes, amusement arcades, snack bars and seasonal lifeguards.
- West Runton beach is a nice rural quiet sand and shingle beach backed by low cliffs and at low tide, you have lots of sand and some rock pools. The beach is located between Cromer and Sheringham on the Norfolk coast. West Runton is a very popular beach and coast stretch for beachcombing and fossil hunters. Fossils of animals, birds and insects are regularly exposed from the eroding cliffs (Cromer Forest-bed) backing the beach. West Runton beach is famous for the West Runton Mammoth that was a full skeleton uncovered beside the cliffs after a storm in 1990. The Norfolk Wildlife Trust regularly runs family events (‘Rock Pool Rummaging’ and ‘Fascinating Fossils’ ) at West Runton beach, see the www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk website for more details. Facilities at the beach include parking, seasonal lifeguards, beach cafe, shop, toilets and with more shops and places to eat in the nearby village.
- Cromer beach is sand and shingle sitting within a traditional victorian seaside resort. The fishing boats launched from the beach in season deliver some excellent crabs. Facilities include toilets, cafes/restaurants, and RNLI Museum.
- East Runton Beach is a sandy beach with pebbles at the high water mark and the beach is backed by sloping sandstone cliffs. Popular surfing beach and less busy and lower key than nearby Cromer. As you walk eastwards towards Cromer you will see some old Pill Boxes in the sand that once sat on the cliffs protecting the coast. Facilities include car parking, toilets, cafe, holiday parks and seasonal lifeguards.
- Mundesley beach is sandy beach with a raised promenade, colourful beach huts and cliff top gardens. Facilities include parking, toilets and a cafe/restaurant.
- Sea Palling beach is a great large sandy beach protected by sea walls and just off-shore you have nine reefs built as part of the flood prevention scheme that gives good protection. The reefs offer some protection from waves and also at low tide a place to explore rock pools. This is one beach that even in the summer months you will have plenty of space. Facilities include car parking, toilets, cafe/restaurant, lifeguards (summer months), deck chairs hire.
