Welcome to Sea Palling & Waxham Community Website

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We are two small villages on the North Norfolk Coast that contain everything needed for a really good holiday or shorter break whether you have family with you or not!

Sea Palling, on account of the nine off-shore reefs built as part of the flood prevention scheme, has a wonderful sandy beach, which has been awarded and retained the coveted Blue Flag award for several years. During the summer, there are Royal National Lifeboat Institute lifeguards on duty every day and additionally our Inshore Lifeboat Crew all carry pagers so the boat is on call 24 hours a day 365 days a year.    As well as good swimming , there is also provision for launching personal water crafts.

There are two pubs, cafes, amusement arcade, a Post Office and general store, farm shop and a stall which sells fish caught locally. The market town of Stalham is four miles away. There is a regular direct bus service during the week to Wroxham and onto Norwich for shopping and sight seeing. We are equidistant from the seaside resorts of Great Yarmouth and Cromer. Sea Palling has its own cycle hire.

If you are interested in nature then the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve at Hickling is only four miles away and both the NWT and RSPB have reserves easily reached by car or bicycle. A walk along the beach towards Waxham and Horsey (National Trust) may well be rewarded with sightings of seals. For historians there is the famous Waxham Barn which has been rebuilt following severe damage in the Great Storm of October 1987. Originally built by the Wodehouse family in the late 16th. Century, it is one of the largest in the country. Norwich, some twenty miles away, is famed for having the greatest number of medieval churches in northern Europe, together with the only remaining complete medieval friary in the country.

We feel that whatever your interests, you will be able to indulge them during a visit here.

Further details may be found on our other pages and we should be most grateful if you would spare the time to look at our advertisers’ inserts, for without their generous support, we should be unable to continue running this independent site.

Do enjoy your visit.

Palling Beach

We retained our Blue Flag in 2012 and a recent survey by the Marine Conservation Society reports that we have excellent water quality and continue to have 'recommended status' (their highest grading) in 2013.   Further information on www.goodbeachguide.co.uk 

 Additionally, according to the Environment Agency's website (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/bathingwaters) Palling has been awarded the highest possible water cleanliness rating in 2013 and has maintained constantly high water quality since 2002.       Finally the European Union annually monitors over 22,000 beaches and lakes in all 27 member countries.    In its most recently published report (2011), the European Environment Agency listed Palling's beach as continuing to be in the top grade, fully complying with the law and guidelines.  Full details on http://ec.europa.eu

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In the first quarter of 2013 a total of 11,439 pages were viewed by 5,172 visitors to this site.

Welcome

Welcome to our three new advertisers: Easy Reach Windows - please see Advertisers list column on right of this page; St. Benets Guest House, Beach Road - please see Accommodation Page; Norfolk Maids - domestic cleaning company - please see Links Page

Stop Press

Community Trust - School Uniform Grants -  please see News Page

Spring Bank Holiday - Refuse Collections - please see News Page

Dogs on the Beach - please see News Page

Sand Bags - please see News Page