What useful publications are there about the Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path National Trail?
Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path by Bruce Robinson (Aurum Press, ISBN 978-1-84513-570-6)
The official guide to the route by Bruce Robinson is a must have to anyone using Norfolk's National Trail. It has some OS mapping and is packed full of interesting insights into the route. You can now purchase the guide from the National Trail office and in so doing help safeguard the management of the route, alternatively go to any good book shop where you should be able to order it.
To order your copy see here or Visit our on-line Shop.
National Trail without a car
Our guide on how to get to the Trail by bus and /or train and also handy information on how to plan your walk with special distance charts. Download a copy here
The Pocket Companion Guide
This publication is a paper copy of the on-line accommodation database plus bus and train routes either side of the National Trail. Route number and frequency of the service are included. The Pocket Companion also has details of local tourist information centres and village services together with a distance chart to help plan your trip. here free of charge, or you could use our website accommmodation map facility. Please see here for further details and how to get hold of your copy. In the event of a specific query please feel free to contact the National Trail office directly.
Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path with the Weavers Way,
A Guide and Accommodation List by Ramblers Association, Norfolk Area.
ISBN 978-1-906494-14-8. Price £3.70 incl p&p
Available from
Ramblers Association, Norfolk Area,
Caldcleugh,
Cake Street,
Old Buckenham,
Attleborough,
Norfolk, NR17 1RU.
Tel: 01953 861094
A Norfolk Songline, Walking the Peddars Way
by Hugh Lupton and Liz McGowan,
ISBN 0-9537692-0-8. Price £9.99 with music CD £14.99
Download an overview from the bottom of this page or purchase from Hugh Lupton's online store
Maps
If you have the official guide it is not absolutely necessary to have maps as well but many people prefer to have both. The following Ordnance Survey maps cover the route:
Landranger (scale 1:50,000): 132,133,144
Explorer (scale 1:25,000): 250, 251, 252,229, 236
Purchase from Ordnance Survey's Website
History
The Peddars Way in particular is rich in history and there are several books available along with others to do with the Norfolk and Suffolk countryside. The following are available from Poppyland publishing.
Norfolk Origins 3: Celtic Fire & Roman Rule
Poppyland Publishing, 1987 (With Tony Gregory).
Norfolk Origins 2: Roads & Tracks
Poppyland Publishing, 1983 (with Edwin Rose).
Norfolk Origins 1: Hunters to First Farmers
Acorn Editions, 1981 (with Andrew Lawson).
Peddars Way - Footprints of History
by Dennis Dear (2006)
ISBN: 0 9526628 6 8
£3 (incl.p&p) from Pathway Publishing
16 Parkhill,
Middleton
King's Lynn
PE32 1RJ
www.pathwaypublishing.co.uk.
Email: footpath@waitrose.com
The Peddars Way
The Weathercock press, 1978
The Nowhere Road
ISBN: 0 9523379 32 146pp
Elmstead Publications, 2001
The Norfolk Walker's Book
ISBN: 0 9523379 24 128pp
£7.99 + postage & packing. Elmstead Publications, 1998
Chasing the Shadows: Norfolk Mysteries Revisited
ISBN: 0 9523379 16 105pp
£6.99 + postage & packing. Elmstead Publications, 1996
Other guides
Pub Walks Along the Peddars Way
by Liz Moynihan
Countryside Books
Treading Gently - From Cromer to the M11
by Pathway Publishing.
Stage One - Cromer to Wells-next-the-Sea
Stage Two - Wells-next-the-Sea to Hunstanton
Stage Three - Hunstanton to Thetford
Stage Four - Thetford to the M11
An Introduction to the Nar Valley Way
by Pathway Publishing.
Treading Gently
Pathway Publishing
16 Parkhill,
Middleton
King's Lynn
PE32 1RJ
Email: footpath@waitrose.com
An Introduction to the Nar Valley Way
Pathway Publishing
16 Parkhill,
Middleton
King's Lynn
PE32 1RJ
Email: footpath@waitrose.com
Associated Downloads
- A Norfolk Songline - Overview[Size: 164.25Kb] {#DownloadURL} A two-page overview of the multi media arts project based on the Peddars Way. Includes a detailed list of the final outputs.
- Vehicle access use of the Peddars Way[Size: 3.4Mb] {#DownloadURL} Information, code of conduct and maps
- Cycling Route Information & Map[Size: 593.58Kb] {#DownloadURL} Peddars Way cycle route information
- Bridleway Route Information & Map[Size: 727.87Kb] {#DownloadURL} Peddars Way bridle route information
- National Trail without a car[Size: 1.51Mb] {#DownloadURL} Guidance on how to get to the Trail and plan your walk without a car
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