Gravel Bank Bridge – King's Lynn Minster loop from Marshland St James

King'S Lynn And West Norfolk

Marshland St James

Gravel Bank Bridge – King's Lynn Minster loop from Marshland St James

Moderate

riders

Gravel Bank Bridge – King's Lynn Minster loop from Marshland St James

02:10

54.5km

110m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 8, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 20.0 km for 155 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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6.24 km

Gravel Bank Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

Gravel Bank describes the road name, not the surface, so you're good to go on a road bike here.

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15.7 km

This is an excellent traffic-free cycle path that runs along the River Great Ouse into Kings Lynn.

This section traces a wide part of the Great Ouse, close to its mouth at The Wash where it drains into the North Sea.

It's the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse", flowing through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to its source in Syresham in Northamptonshire.

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18.0 km

King's Lynn Library

Highlight • Structure

The library is in a impressive grade 2 listed gothic red carstone building dating to the early 1900s.

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18.4 km

King's Lynn Minster

Highlight • Historical Site

King's Lynn Minster (formerly St Margaret's Church) is a stunning Grade I-listed building in the heart of King’s Lynn. Founded in 1095 as a Benedictine Priory, the church was rebuilt in the 13th century and has been modified continuously through the years. The minster boasts huge bells from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and its organ survives from the mid-18th century.

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18.5 km

King's Lynn Guildhall

Highlight • Historical Site

17th century building with impressive chequerboard stonework. Shows how wealthy the town was back in its heyday.

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18.9 km

Marriott’s Warehouse, South Quay

Highlight • Historical Site

Marriott’s Warehouse on South Quay was built as a Tudor warehouse, around the 1580s by one of East Anglia’s wealthiest corn and sail merchants, Thomas Claybourne.

Until the 1830s the building was actually on the riverbank, then engineering works took place to straighten the course of the river, creating a new sand bank, which subsequently led to the formation of South Quay.

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36.7 km