Paddleboarding spots in Norfolk
65 launch spots across Norfolk
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SeaSheringham put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandPedestrian access to Sheringham beach here is via a ramp from Beach Road or through West Cliff Garden, onto the open North Sea coast below the town-centre promenade. The town has no harbour, so its fishing boats and its lifeboat are hauled up and down the sand by tractor.
RiverRunham Vauxhall slipway
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway launches onto the tidal River Bure at Runham Vauxhall, a suburb of Great Yarmouth close to Vauxhall Bridge and the town's railway station. The Broads Authority requires a toll for unpowered craft on this reach unless the paddler holds Paddle UK membership.
LakeRockland Staithe slipway ramp
Norfolk, EnglandThe concrete slipway ramp and service path at Rockland Staithe, Rockland St Mary, giving access to Rockland Broad by dyke and, beyond it, the River Yare.
RiverReedham put-in (Broadland)
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway is part of Reedham Quay on the River Yare, a Broads village with a car-and-passenger chain ferry a short way downstream. The tide runs fast through Reedham, and the quay also has a Broads Authority information point, water, refuse disposal and electric hook-ups.
RiverParish Staithe
Norfolk, EnglandParish Staithe is Neatishead's public staithe on Limekiln Dyke, a narrow channel that leaves the River Ant near Barton Broad and dead-ends in the village. Free 24-hour moorings, water and rubbish disposal are available, and the village shop and the White Horse Inn are a five-to-ten-minute walk away.
SeaOverstrand put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandOverstrand's beach is reached by a long, gently sloping path down from the clifftop car park, with no vehicle access to the sand. At high tide the water reaches the sea wall, considerably narrowing the wide sandy beach seen at low tide, and the Norfolk Coast Path runs along the clifftop above.
RiverTar Works Road slipway, Runham Vauxhall
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway launches onto the tidal River Bure at Runham Vauxhall on the northern edge of Great Yarmouth, close to Great Yarmouth Yacht Station just above Vauxhall Bridge. The reach carries strong currents and a tidal range of over three feet below Stracey Arms, and the Broads Authority requires a toll for unpowered craft here unless the paddler holds Paddle UK membership.
SeaMorston Quay slipway
Norfolk, EnglandMorston Quay is a National Trust site on the North Norfolk coast where a slipway and hard give access to a tidal saltmarsh creek that runs out into Blakeney Channel and, beyond Blakeney Point, the North Sea. The National Trust asks paddlers to launch from the hard rather than this slipway, which is kept clear for trailer boats, and Blakeney Point itself, home to a large grey seal colony, is best viewed by licensed boat trip rather than approached by kayak or paddleboard.
SeaMorston put-in
Norfolk, EnglandThis point sits on the tidal saltmarsh creek at Morston on the North Norfolk coast, roughly a mile and a half west of the better-known Morston Quay, where the creek system drains out into Blakeney Channel and, beyond Blakeney Point, the open North Sea. National Trust guidance covering the Morston and Blakeney area recommends paddling within an hour either side of high water, when the current runs slowest.
RiverSloughbottom Park slipway
Norfolk, EnglandAn informal access point onto the River Wensum at Sloughbottom Park, next to Mile Cross in Norwich. A free car park serves a level, half-mile paved path down to the river, where a stretch of collapsed artificial bank forms a workable on-off point rather than a built pontoon.
RiverMartham Boat Building and Development slipway
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway on the River Thurne belongs to Martham Boat Building and Development, a traditional boatyard at Cess, on the outskirts of Martham, that hires canoes and paddleboards as well as Broads cruisers. It is roughly 3 km upstream (north) of Martham Broad National Nature Reserve, a separate site on the Thurne managed by Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
RiverLoddon put-in (South Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway sits at Loddon Staithe on the River Chet on the Norfolk Broads, opposite the town's 18th-century watermill. The Chet is tidal here despite lying well inland, with a rise and fall of up to 2.5 feet, and is navigable for about 3.5 miles upstream from Loddon.
LakeLeziate put-in
Norfolk, EnglandA slipway on an unnamed flooded pit near the hamlet of Leziate, in a belt of former silica-sand workings west of King's Lynn worked commercially since the 1840s. The pit itself carries no name in available mapping, so treat this as an unverified, likely small and possibly private water.
SeaLessingham put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway lies on the coast within Lessingham parish, close to Cart Gap near Eccles-on-Sea. Cart Gap, just to the south, hosts Happisburgh's RNLI lifeboat station and a pay-and-display car park serving this stretch of beach.
SeaLessingham put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway sits on the coast at Eccles-on-Sea, within Lessingham parish, on the stretch of shore where the medieval village of Eccles-next-the-Sea was lost to the sea by the late sixteenth century. The beach here is open, exposed North Sea coast reached down a narrow lane.
SeaHunstanton Lifeboat Station slipway
Norfolk, EnglandThe inshore rescue boat slipway at Hunstanton Lifeboat Station on Sea Lane, Old Hunstanton, at the point where the Wash meets the open North Sea. This is the RNLI's only east-coast station that faces west, and it launches its lifeboat and hovercraft by amphibious tractor across the beach and mudflats rather than a conventional public slipway.
RiverHorning put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway on the River Bure at Horning sits by Horning Sailing Club, with toilets and paths noted alongside it on OpenStreetMap. Horning Sailing Club races on this stretch of river and down towards Thurne and Acle, and hosts the annual Three Rivers Race each June.
LakeHickling put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis launch point sits roughly 150 metres east of the main Staithe Road access nodes, still within the Hickling Broad staithe area. Norfolk Wildlife Trust asks paddlers not to launch from its NWT Hickling Staithe here and directs them to Hickling Parish Staithe nearby, which charges a launch fee.
LakeHickling put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis launch point sits by Staithe Road, Hickling, at the water access point for Hickling Broad, the largest of the Broads and a Norfolk Wildlife Trust nature reserve. Two staithes operate close together here: Norfolk Wildlife Trust asks paddlers not to launch from its own NWT Hickling Staithe and instead directs them to Hickling Parish Staithe nearby, which charges a launch fee.
SeaHappisburgh put-in (North Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis ramp gives access to Happisburgh beach below the village's eroding cliffs, near the site of the original lifeboat station. The council has built a low rock bund along the cliff base to slow erosion, and the access ramp itself has previously been closed for repair after storm damage.
RiverColdham Hall Sailing Club slipway
Norfolk, EnglandA private slipway on the River Yare at Coldham Hall, Surlingham, operated by Coldham Hall Sailing Club. The RYA-affiliated club, formed in 1951, runs dinghy sailing and racing from the site and describes itself as the hub of sailing in the Yare valley.
RiverSurlingham Common slipway
Norfolk, EnglandA small slipway on Surlingham Common, on the south bank of the River Yare in South Norfolk, between Bramerton and Rockland St Mary. An access note on the OpenStreetMap record restricts its use to parish residents launching very small craft.
RiverGillingham put-in (South Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway sits on the River Waveney around 700 metres from another harvested launch point near Gillingham Dam, on the Norfolk bank opposite Beccles. No further detail on the facility itself was found beyond its position on this tidal stretch of the Waveney.
RiverGillingham put-in (South Norfolk)
Norfolk, EnglandThis slipway lies on the River Waveney near Gillingham Dam, close to Hippersons Boatyard on the Norfolk bank opposite Beccles. It gives access to a tidal stretch of the Waveney that forms part of the Broads Authority navigation area.
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