Trips to Wells and Walsingham, Norfolk - 25th May 2025

It's day two of our weekend away to North-west Norfolk, and after we've checked out of the Hoste Arms in Burnham Market, we drive along the coast road to Wells Next The Sea. Once there, we eat a lunch of cockles, crab and chips on the Quay and have a trip on an awesome 1951 Leyland Tiger charabanc down to the beach and back, before heading back home. On the way back though we also stop off at Walsingham - home to numerous shrines to Mary and the site of Catholic and Anglo-Catholic pilgrimages for nearly a thousand years.

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There's an 1950s Charabanc near the car park

There's an 1950s Charabanc near the car park

Fishing boats on the river at Wells

There's a tidal monitoring station on stilts

The 'Larn' is available to rent

It's busy down at the quayside in Wells

The river at Wells next the Sea

The sailing barge Albatros is moored up

A load of crabbing strings dangle in the river

Isobel near some brand-new lobster pots

Boats are stranded as the tide is out

Bright pink buoys on the stern of a fishing boat

Oast-house-style ventilation on an old maltings

A faded door down a back alley

A neglected Methodist chapel

The war memorial on Theatre Road

Isobel by Frary's seafood stall on The Quay

Walkers on the sea wall

A 1951 Leyland Tiger waits at the bus stop

Down on the beach at Wells

Beach hits on stilts on Wells beach

The wide-open expanses of Wells beach

Isobel looks at worm casts in the sand

A bit of seal-watching occurs

The massive lifeboat tractor has its engine out

The bus is full on the way back

A dog gets videoed for The Gram

The Victorian Walsingham Mill

The former prison mill, built in 1822

Looking down High Street to the Abbey gate

Common Place and the old Pump House

The Chantry Chapel of St. Michael

Inside the chapel of St. Michael, built in 1965

Another shrine in the gardens of Walsingham

Knight Street in Walsingham

A Victoria post box

The war memorial on Guild Street

Isobel wanders around Walsingham Farms Shop

A tumbledown shed on Bridewell Street

Isobel on Bridewell Street

There are religious symbols and quotes everywhere

The Bull pub on Common Place

There's a swarm of bees in some house timbers

The Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham

Isobel roams around near the Hospice buildings

A Station of the Cross in the shrine gardens

The 'gentle light' of an ourdoor altar

The pleasant gardens of the shrine

A field of purple on the way out of Walsingham