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Greyfriars Tower – King's Lynn Minster loop from King's Lynn

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United Kingdom
England
East Of England
Norfolk

Greyfriars Tower – King's Lynn Minster loop from King's Lynn

Moderate

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hikers

Greyfriars Tower – King's Lynn Minster loop from King's Lynn

04:12

16.7km

20m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 27, 2026

Waypoints

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Start point

Train Station

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686 m

Greyfriars Tower

Highlight • Historical Site

There are only three Greyfriars Towers left in Britain and this is the best preserved, probably because it served as a landmark for traders and sailors after the dissolution of the monastery.

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945 m

Garden of Remembrance

Highlight • Historical Site

Pte Reginald Vernon TWEEDY Transcript from local newspaper:

Reginald mon Tweely, Priwite, 27100, 4th Battalion, The Norfolk Regument, only son of Mr a anal Mrs Stephen TWEEDY, of 50 Len of 50 Longion Road, King's Lynn. He died in Flanders on 11 August 1917. During an attack on near Ypres, he was sislige occupied by shot in the the enemy south of Westhock time he could not be reached hend by a sniper and instantly killed be reached, "the sniping being so Berce that it would have meant certain death."

Afterwards he was buried approximately where he fell. "He ote his sergeant "He wonn as cheery when he wen abrave went out over the as he was in billets. We have lost an efficient Lewis-gunner and a very gallant soldier, wrote Captain Jack Pattern. Cap tern. Captain W. Bunting, Teerington St John, commanded his company. They fell in the same action.

In a letter of 2 July 1917, Private Tweedy refagrest to an attack then imminent and wrote of the honour a soldier would gain who came through it with success. He was 19 years of age. Educated joined Steward and Patterson's dat All Saint's school, in n 1916 he He enlisted on 18 November 1916. and went to Franee on Good Friday, 1917.

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957 m

Steel Cut-Outs of Lynn

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Steel cut outs of Lynn

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1.25 km

King's Lynn Minster

Highlight • Historical Site

King's Lynn Minster (formerly St Margaret's Church) is a stunning Grade I-listed building in the heart of King’s Lynn. Founded in 1095 as a Benedictine Priory, the church was rebuilt in the 13th century and has been modified continuously through the years. The minster boasts huge bells from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and its organ survives from the mid-18th century.

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1.82 km

River Great Ouse Cycle Path

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

This is an excellent traffic-free cycle path that runs along the River Great Ouse into Kings Lynn.

This section traces a wide part of the Great Ouse, close to its mouth at The Wash where it drains into the North Sea.

It's the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse", flowing through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to its source in Syresham in Northamptonshire.

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8.82 km

St Germans Church

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St Germans is a Grade I-listed church set beside the River Great Ouse. Its west tower dates to the 13th century, whilst the nave, aisles and chancel are from the 15th century. Inside, you can view a 17th-century pulpit and reading desk, 16th-century nave benches and a 19th-century font.

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16.7 km

End point

Train Station

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

10.3 km

3.55 km

1.92 km

518 m

357 m

Surfaces

4.80 km

4.44 km

4.04 km

3.21 km

187 m

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