Beacon Hill, Stone Hill and Weybourne Priory Church in Norfolk.....

From the dizzy heights of Beacon Hill (also known as Roman Camp) just south of West Runton ....

102 metres above sea level, and without a safety net too!

Beacon Hill is part of the Cromer Ridge (the front line of the ice sheet at the last glaciations).  The ridge is the highest land in East Anglia.  The earthworks enclosure on this hill was once a coastal signal station during the Napoleonic wars and probably the site of an earlier beacon.  Historians believe there would have been a beacon for signalling here at the time of the Spanish Armada... I wonder what the signal for 'hola!' was?!

Again, not a person in sight on the walk from the National Trust car park to Stone Hill, and there was me thinking that there'd be masses of holiday makers, maybe they went to the beach for a swim instead!

And on to Stone Hill ….

At 93 metres above sea level with gorgeous views of Beeston Bump, Beeston Regis and Sherringham…

Weybourne Priory Church, with a Saxon tower and Medieval ruins....

In 1086 the village was recorded in the Domesday Book as Wabrunna, at that time a Saxon church served the village.  Sir Ralph Meyngaryn, Lord of Weybourne, and his wife Amicia, founded a priory of Augustinian Canons here in circa 1200 on the site of the Saxon church, it is amazing that even part of the Saxon building remains, when there is sea salt damage to the later church building (15th century).

Saxon tower built between AD 90 - 1066....