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Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Café and learning centre with views over the Cley and Salthouse Marshes. Learn about the conservation work at Norfolk Wildlife Trust, or spot and hear avocet, bittern, marsh harrier, teal and spoonbill over the flat marshland.
Cley Marshes is a 176-hectare (430-acre) nature reserve on the North Sea coast of England just outside the village of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk. A reserve since 1926, it is the oldest of the reserves belonging to the Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT), which is itself the oldest county Wildlife Trust in the United Kingdom. Cley Marshes protects an area of reed beds, freshwater marsh, pools and wet meadows and is part of the North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Area (SPA), and Ramsar Site due to the large numbers of birds it attracts.
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Discover Robin Bouttell's Pinkfoot Bronzes - wildlife sculptures - and paintings by wildlife artists from Cley, Norfolk and beyond.
Walk from Cley to Blakeney along the Norfolk Coast Path, a dividing line between the salt and freshwater marshes.
Built by Sir Alfred Jodrell, this museum is a window into the "cabinet of curiosities" era. Alongside an assortment of shells, this museum also features a sugar bowl used by Queen Elizabeth I, a collection of Glandford artefacts and a tiny wooden barrel "made from teak of HMS Warspite — a ship which was involved in the Battle of Trafalgar".