Great weather to start the day off, so we wrapped up warm and headed North East from Clippesby Hall to Winterton-on-sea. This is a small seaside village with a great beach. You can park right at the end by the beach - £4.00 all day or £1.00 per hour which was great as we only wanted to walk the dogs.
The wind had a real chill but having seen that the cafe by the car park was open we knew we could treat ourselves to a hot chocolate afterwards.
There is plenty of erosion along this stretch of coast, but that only lends itself to some fantastic sand dunes to play in. Our children had immense fun running down and climbing back up, together with playing hide and seek!
This was the view from the top of the dunes looking back to Winterton Lighthouse as the clouds started to roll in.
A Lighthouse has been known to have stood in this location since the 17th century This first lighthouse was constructed between 1616 and 1618. This lighthouse was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt in 1687 and had an octagonal tower. This lighthouse was privately owned by the Turner family. The owners were entitled to a penny for every ton for every ship that sailed within the light. The lighthouse can be seen clearly on Faden’s large-scale map (at one inch to the mile) of the county of Norfolk of 1779.
