About Walcott

The village is the only point where the B1159 Coast Road actually runs along the edge of the sea. This makes it a popular stopping off point for day-trippers and storm watchers.

Generations of children and carefree adults have walked and skipped along the top of the sea wall or have rested there to eat their ice-creams or piping hot fish and chips in paper!

It does not have the rustic charm of some other coastal villages, however it offers a wonderful history all of its own. The easily accessed exposed beaches have born witness to often dramatic weather and resulting rough seas. There is a well known story locally of an unfortunate ship wrecked off the coast some years ago whose huge cargo of oranges was washed up onto the beach! More recently the floods of 2007 made national news!

Walcott is all about its beach and its strong coastal community.

Although erosion is no longer a threat to Walcott it sits in the parish of Happisburgh which has had much publicity recently about its sadly disappearing village and beaches. Happisburgh's imposing red and white lighthouse can be seen from Walcott and was last given a spruce up by the BBC's Challange Annika programme a few years ago.