Holme-next-the-Sea

A small pretty village on the corner of the Wash and the North Sea. Its church and chalk and flint cottages give way to golf links and then the beach and dunes.

The Peddars Way is a Roman and pre-Roman road that comes across from Ixworth in Suffolk, via Castle Acre. It is 46 miles (74 kilometres) long and emerges onto the Wash and the North Sea at Holme-next-the Sea. It's most likely that the Romans used the Peddars Way for troop movements.

St. Mary's Church, with its broad and handsome tower, was partly rebuilt in 1771 and again in 1887.

James Rowles

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The Peddars Way concludes on the beach at Holme.

St. Mary's Church, Holme-next-the-Sea.