Staithe

For me nothing ever beats the big-sky thrill of cresting the final tussocky hill on the beach-bound road that sweeps towards Burnham Overy Staithe.

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M is at the wheel and we find cobbled Kings Staithe Square and its sturdy former bank with ease.

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The tide was in on our arrival, but it soon receded over the vast sandy levels of the Staithe harbour to be a just discernible blue line on the far horizon, leaving shallow channels streaked across the beach.

Tinplate Saturdays Peter Ashley 2008

Here on Brancaster Staithe they just quietly get on with gutting fish, doing something to bags of mussels and putting village notices up in an old Eastern Counties bus timetable frame.

Tidal Reaches 2 Peter Ashley 2007

With just enough depth to get over the sandbar, we reach open water and make for the Staithe.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Here on Brancaster Staithe they just quietly get on with gutting fish, doing something to bags of mussels and putting village notices up in an old Eastern Counties bus timetable frame.

Archive 2007-10-01 Peter Ashley 2007

It is barely dawn and high tide when Harry Cory Wright, Adam Nicolson and I set out from nearby Brancaster Staithe with John Brown, the Scolt Head Nature Warden, in his open wooden motor boat, heading up the channel through Brancaster Marshes towards Scolt Head and the open sea.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

It is barely dawn and high tide when Harry Cory Wright, Adam Nicolson and I set out from nearby Brancaster Staithe with John Brown, the Scolt Head Nature Warden, in his open wooden motor boat, heading up the channel through Brancaster Marshes towards Scolt Head and the open sea.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

With just enough depth to get over the sandbar, we reach open water and make for the Staithe.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Second Day Dick wrote in his notebook, 'Found two coots' nests in a reed-bed close to Ranworth Staithe.

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934