North Norfolk is flat, wide and mostly sky, which is exactly what a travel poster wants. The coast runs from Hunstanton on the Wash, where the sun sets over the sea, east through the Burnhams, Wells and Blakeney to Cromer's pier. We have drawn more of it than any other stretch of English coast.
Wells-next-the-Sea
The beach huts at Wells stand on stilts at the edge of the pines, a mile from the town along the sea wall or a ride on the little train. They are the most-photographed huts in the country and the subject of four of our designs, from a bold flat-colour version to the row along the sand on a summer afternoon.
Holkham
Next door, Holkham beach is where the film Shakespeare in Love ended and where the Household Cavalry exercise their horses in the surf. The boardwalk through the pines opens onto a beach so wide the sea is sometimes a walk away. Holkham Hall, behind it, is the Palladian house of the Coke family, with a deer park drawn in our third design.
The Burnhams and Brancaster
Burnham Market is the village of the Hoste Arms and a green lined with shops that earned it the nickname Chelsea-on-Sea. Brancaster, on the coast, has the beach, the marsh and the Royal West Norfolk clubhouse on the dunes, which we drew at sunset and again on a summer morning.
Heacham and Hunstanton
Round the corner on the Wash, the coast faces west. Heacham and Hunstanton are the rare east-coast beaches where the sun goes down over the water, and our Heacham designs are two sunsets and two summer days on the same beach. Hunstanton adds its striped cliffs, red and white chalk over carstone.
Cromer
Cromer is the pier, the crabs and the Hotel de Paris on the front. The pier still has a working theatre at the end of it, one of the last end-of-pier shows in the country. We drew the pier entrance at sunset, the boardwalk looking back at the town, and the beach and cliffs from the west.
The whole coast, from Hunstanton to Great Yarmouth, is on the Norfolk page.
