Coastguard Cottages

These terraced coastguard's cottages between Weybourne & Sheringham were built by Trinity House in 1904, and they are still without mains electricity.  It seems they are now all holiday lets.

According to an article in the Eastern Daily Press the beach was so steep at Weybourne it meant large vessels could get close to the shore making this a well used location for smugglers.

Local folklore said the local miller would stop his sails in the sign of a cross to warn smugglers the coastguards were on to them.

This part of the coast was also in danger from invasion and so well defended and more than one coastguard was posted to man the station, long since demolished.

Historic documents state the coastguards, mostly former seamen who had served on many a vessel in the Navy, and becoming coastguards in their 40s and 50s, together with their wives and several children, were allocated one of the Weybourne cottages in hierarchy, with the most senior closest to the sea.

During the war, the coastguards would have had a different job of looking out for German invaders with the beach heavily mined and there was an artillery range at Weybourne Camp.

B and I walked at 8am this morning to try and beat the high temperatures but by the time we had completed our circular walk along the cliff top and back to the village of Weybourne we felt very hot indeed. Although probably not as hot as many of the joggers who passed us.

Thank you B for showing me your regular Sunday morning walk, it's a shame they had already sold out of your usual newspaper in the village shop by the time we got back.