The Guardian names north Norfolk coast in best spots in UK

The Guardian released their list of 10 picture-perfect places on the coast of the UK, and Norfolk's "timeless" northern shores and "huge changeable skies" have claimed their rightful place.

The salt marsh between Morston and Blakeney is given a shout-out as it is used as the poster location for our shores in the list.

The coast path between Cromer and Wells gets a mention for its walk where you "climb over flowering headlands and tramp along shingle, past yellow horned-poppies and wader-rich wetlands, until finally the brick tower and white sails of Cley windmill appear across reedbeds".

Cley windmill (Image: Ian Burt)

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Holkham’s Lookout café's wrapper-free real-fruit lollies is also name-dropped, as well as The Globe Inn in Wells, Deepdale Camping in Burnham Deepdale and the Dun Cow in Salthouse.

Previous trips for the writer have involved whole-crab sandwiches from Café Main in Cromer, Sheringham Park and boat trips from Morston to see seals.

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Writing for The Guardian, Phoebe Taplin talks of the abundant wildlife. She said: "The salt marsh is purple with sea lavender and alive with ringed plovers and oystercatchers.

The rhododendrons in full colour at Sheringham Park (Image: Denise Bradley)

"The Norfolk coast feels timeless, but these marshes were once sea, drained and farmed, now restored and full of wildlife.

"Two spoonbills fly overhead; another is probing a muddy fen nearby. I’ve never seen these rare birds before and suddenly they are everywhere. There are smaller birds, too, round the coconut-scented gorse bushes: pipits, soaring larks and ruddy-breasted linnets in a twittering flock."

Mersea Island in Essex, Silverdale in Lancashire and St Agnes within Isles of Scilly, are also on the list.