driving between Cromer and Wheathampstead

whitesatin

We are looking to move to the seaside and have been put off Kent a bit recently but it is an easy enough train journey which I would have to do once a week, staying overnight and back the next day.

We are extending our search to Cromer but the train journey is around 4 hours with 3 changes (into London and out again). I do drive but I don't like anything too complicated, e.g. motorways. The route planner shows under 3 hours I think but just wondered if anyone has experience of driving this route on a regular basis and can foresee pitfalls. Thanks.

Minrich

We live in Ipswich , getting to Cromer is a nightmare , probably takes at least 2.5hrs for us by car . So i would expect you would go via Kings lynn but you don't do motorways so difficult to say ... I would say that if you went Cambridge Thetford Norwich then Cromer would take you at least 4 hrs .

Mercdriver

whitesatin wrote: »

We are looking to move to the seaside and have been put off Kent a bit recently but it is an easy enough train journey which I would have to do once a week, staying overnight and back the next day.

We are extending our search to Cromer but the train journey is around 4 hours with 3 changes (into London and out again). I do drive but I don't like anything too complicated, e.g. motorways. The route planner shows under 3 hours I think but just wondered if anyone has experience of driving this route on a regular basis and can foresee pitfalls. Thanks.

I would say that motorways are a lot less complicated than a lot of the minor roads in East Anglia, but maybe that's just me!

lincroft1710

whitesatin wrote: »

I do drive but I don't like anything too complicated, e.g. motorways.

There are no motorways in Norfolk.

whitesatin

Thanks for your replies. Yes, no motorways in Norfolk but I would avoid any en route. It's just the way I am and I am not going to feel any different now I suppose.

At four hours, it would be as quick to get the train.

I will probably continue on my quest elsewhere.

ChumLee

whitesatin wrote: »

Thanks for your replies. Yes, no motorways in Norfolk but I would avoid any en route. It's just the way I am and I am not going to feel any different now I suppose.

At four hours, it would be as quick to get the train.

I will probably continue on my quest elsewhere.

Is there a reason why you don't drive on motorways?

agrinnall

I'm not convinced that anyone who thinks motorways are too complicated to drive on should really be driving at all, as every other sort of public highway is more complicated.

Minrich

Perhaps they can only turn right ?

Minrich

whitesatin wrote: »

Thanks for your replies. Yes, no motorways in Norfolk but I would avoid any en route. It's just the way I am and I am not going to feel any different now I suppose.

At four hours, it would be as quick to get the train.

I will probably continue on my quest elsewhere.

What do you want "At the seaside" and how much have you to spend ? I can give you some impartial advice on Suffolk if you like to PM me ?

whitesatin

I am ok once on the motorway, it is just that I don't like joining them.

gilbert_and_sullivan

A lovely drive that, not one to be doing Cromer bound on a Friday afternoon (where is in this overcrowded island?) nor Wheathamptstead bound on a Sunday afternoon either, but at sensible times not a bad journey.
4 hours is ludicrous you could probably cycle it in that time.

From Wheathampstead, via Kimpton, Hitchin, Letchworth, Royston, Newmarket By-Pass, Mildenhall, Swaffham, Fakenham and on into Cromer.
Avoid Norwich like the plague, traffic nightmare round the Northern ring road section.
If you could face the A1M from Welwyn to Jct 9 Letchworth that would make the journey an awful lot better.

I don't blame you in the least avoiding motorways, its not so much the road its the clowns that infest them and the roadworks set out by jokers, its getting to the stage that the old roads are as easy and swift to travel, thankfully this is because modern drivers don't have a clue where they are going without the sat nav telling them, and sat navs don't yet come with an ''old road'' preference, hopefully they won't.