Salthouse
Salthouse lies on the North Norfolk coast between
Weybourne and
Cley-next-the-Sea.
The novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
rented the Great Eye Folly in Salthouse from 1950 to
1951. She lived here with her partner Valentine Ackland
and spent the time working on her last novel The
Flint Anchor (1954).
Randall's Folly,
Salthouse Beach
The folly - a former coastguard building - was
originally built by Onesiphorous Randall in the 19th
Century but was seriously damaged by the great floods of
1953. It stood on the beach in an exposed and windswept
location. Nothing remains of it today.
Salthouse has always been prone to flooding - lying,
as it does, behind a low shingle bank.
Salthouse church, which is situated on a hill behind
the village, provides a spectacular view across the
marshes to the sea. The gravestones in the churchyard
are particularly spooky - adorned with winged
hourglasses and skulls. Many of the graves belong to
sailors who died at sea. Today the church is home to an
annual art exhibition.
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