The Area

Mundesley has a good range of basic shops including a butchers, greengrocer, chemist and post office; it also boasts an excellent fish and chip shop. There is a mobile wet fish and shellfish stall ‘The Lobster Pot’, located on the main carpark at Mundesley, most days. The Spar shop at the end of High Street has an ATM machine. Branches of the main high street banks can be found in Cromer, Sheringham and North Walsham. There are Friday markets at both Cromer and North Walsham. There is a Sainsburys at North Walsham and a Morrrisons supermarket at Cromer.

For gourmet shopping you could try Holt where there is an excellent range of quality shops, many selling locally produced, often organic, food. The smoke house, at Cley, sells home cured kippers, haddock, roe and ready prepared fish pates, including taramasalata. Further afield ‘Samphire’, at Blicking Hall, is an award winning organic farm shop, selling excellent local produce including mutton and hogget.

Closer to Mundesley, Tavern Tasty meats, at Swafield, sells rare breed meat and their award winning sausages and pork pies. Grove Farms at Roughton is almost one stop shopping – a farm shop complex which hosts a butchery, green grocers (much grown on the farm), bakery, a wholefood and healthfood outlet, delicatessen, a plant nursery and a selection of country clothing and wines.

Look out for the local farmers markets advertised each week in the Eastern Daily Press.

There is a good Chinese Restaurant in Mundesley, next to the Haig Club, on the main coast road and both the Ship Pub and the Manor Hotel (also on the coast road) offer bulk standard pub grub.

Cromer boasts at least three Indian restaurants, many pubs offering food good fish and chip shops and Bolton’s Bistro, part of the Cliftonville Hotel (check out the stunning Art Noveau interiors) which often has locally caught fish on the menu.

The Suffield Arms at Gunton offers good pub food and is just opposite Gunton Station (beautifully kept with tubs and hanging baskets) where the station building has been converted to a dwelling, but has kept the style of a nineteenth century station. The Station is worth a visit and you can catch a train on the Bittern Line (timetable in the house folder) to Sheringham, in one direction, and North Walsham in the other where you can catch a train to the historic city of Norwich.

Further afield, the Victoria Arms at Holkham offers a more up market dining experience, most of the menu is locally sourced and the game is all raised on the Holkham Estate. The Corner House, Staithe Street, Wells is an excellent bar/restaurant with good Sunday roasts, locally sourced ingredients and a seasonal menu, with the added bonus that they often have local jazz and folk musicians playing. The Anchor pub at Morston serves excellent pub food, including fish in beer batter and local mussels.

It is advisable to book at all of these eateries. Sample menus are in the house folder.

In Mundesley:

  • The mill leet and wheel
  • The Coast Guard Museum
  • Desert Island themed pitch and putt
  • Small amusement arcade
  • Gold Park is a good sized playing field which hosts a car boot every Wednesday in the summer
  • There are two horse riding stables in Mundesley and a golf course which welcomes guest players

Further afield:

  • Blickling Hall
  • Felbrigg Hall
  • Sheringham Park
  • Holkham Park and beach
  • North Norfolk Railway
  • Shire Horse Centre
  • Cromer museum (small but recently refurbished and well worth a visit)
  • Climb the tower of Cromer Church for a splendid coastal view.
  • Cromer pier offers seasonal entertainment at the end of pier theatre.
  • Cromer life boat crew offer tours of the station
  • Sheringham theatre
  • Take a boat trip from Morston to see the seals on Blakeney point.

There are numerous sandy beaches all around the Norfolk coast with amusement arcades, mini fun fairs, pitch and putt courses etc.

  • Bewilderwood Adventure Park (25 mins)
  • Shire Horse Centre (25 mins)
  • Baconsthorpe Castle (30 mins)
  • Wroxham Barns and Small Animal Farm (30 mins)
  • Dinosaur Park (40 mins)
  • Langham Glass (40 mins)
  • Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens (45 mins)
  • Great Yarmouth – Amzonia World of Reptiles, Pleasure Beach, House of Wax, Model Village, Sea Life Centre, Hippodrome Circus and others (50 mins)
  • Gressenhall Rural Life Museum and Farm (50 mins)
  • Norwich Castle Museum (50 mins)
  • Extreme Adventure (1 hour)
  • Pleasurewood Hills (1 hour)
  • Castle Rising (1 hour 15)
  • Banham Zoo (1 hour 15)
  • Snettisham Park (1 hour 15)
  • Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary (1hour 20)
  • Bressingham Steam Museum (1 hour 25)