About

Paston Way is a 22 mile walk between Cromer and North Walsham, discovering the area’s beautiful medieval churches. Each church has its own hidden history and one was even moved brick by brick from a cliff top to save it from the sea. To visit all 14 of the fine churches on the Paston Way, the trail covers 29.5 miles.

In travelling church to church, the trail ambles down quiet lanes, through picturesque towns and villages, across vast arable fields, disused railway lines and quiet grazing pastures with views of the North Sea. Keep a look out for seals on the stretches of beach walk too.

The Paston Way takes its name from the Paston family who during the Medieval and Tudor periods were the dominant and wealthy landowners in the area through which much of the trail passes. The Paston family in turn had taken their name from the small village of Paston on the north east Norfolk coast. They also wrote the famous Paston Letters.

The route passes through the following areas: Cromer | Overstrand | Sidestrand | Northrepps | Southrepps | Trimingham | Trunch | Gimingham | Mundesley | Bacton | Paston | Knapton | Edingthorpe | North Walsham.

You can find out about the route and other points of interest here.