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Horsey Beach Seal Colony – Horsey Windpump and Café loop from Horsey

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Horsey Beach Seal Colony – Horsey Windpump and Café loop from Horsey

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Horsey Beach Seal Colony – Horsey Windpump and Café loop from Horsey

01:32

6.09km

10m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 31, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Norfolk Coast National Landscape

The Broads

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547 m

Horsey Beach Seal Colony and WWII Bunker

Highlight • Beach

A place to which whole herds of seals return each year during the winter. In addition to seals, you can see the remains of bunker fortifications from World War II. A wide clean sandy beach.

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1.45 km

Seals on Horsey Beach

Highlight • Natural

Don’t follow the Komoot route to the car park and along the beach. Go further sown the road, turn left to the Nelson Pub and continue along gravel track to …

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1.48 km

This is the perfect spot to catch Norfolk seals. Between November to about February hundreds of grey seals breed here. If you’re in the area around this time, then you have to catch the magnificent and forever-memorable sight.

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2.35 km

Horsey Windpump and Horsey Gap

Highlight • Structure

2.75 km

Nelson's Head

Highlight • Pub

3.72 km

Horsey Windpump and Café

Highlight • Historical Site

Powered by tea. Propelled by cake.
Owned by the National Trust, the mill (pump), built in 1855, is in the process of being restored. It should be fully functional by …

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6.09 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.86 km

1.65 km

1.47 km

101 m

Surfaces

2.68 km

1.78 km

1.49 km

< 100 m

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Weather

Monday 31 August

22°C

12°C

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April 29, 2024,Horsey Loop — the Broads

The next few days we will be in the Norfolk Broads, a national park in the county of Norfolk, east of Norwich.
Today we took a trip through the Norfolk Broads, a landscape of rivers, lakes, marshland and swamps, beautiful villages and churches. The Broads are not a natural lake district, but were created in the Middle Ages by mining …

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Horsey Beach Seal Colony – Horsey Windpump and Café loop from Horsey

Horsey Beach Seal Colony and WWII Bunker

Seals on Horsey Beach