Weybourne

Weybourne lies on the north Norfolk coast between Sheringham and Salthouse.

During World War II Weybourne was heavily defended with gun emplacements and pill boxes (many of which remain to this day) - due to the fact that deep water close to the shore made it a potential site for a German invasion.

Going further back into history, the beach was also defended by Elizabeth I - fearing that the Spanish Armada might land here. There is an old rhyme which states:
 

This poem of mine was inspired by a walk along the cliff top from Sheringham Park to Weybourne Hope. On the day, there was a profusion of skylarks:
 

Above the cliff-top
Meadow today, the skylark
Rises up into

The sun's face - higher
And higher and higher; its
Brown speck vanishing

Beyond neck-crick and
The eye's sudden blindness - and
From this height it pours

Down its river of
Sound - bubbling and sparkling and
Glitteringly clear.

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The Muckleburgh Collection