LOWESTOFT | Full seaside tour of Lowestoft, Suffolk
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2023
- We visit Lowestoft Suffolk for a virtual walking tour around this seaside holiday town, known for it's great beaches, the famous Claremont Pier and more attractions too to see if it's a good place for a holiday. It's worth considering Lowestoft as a holiday destination, combining beautiful beaches, a rich maritime heritage, and access to natural beauty and outdoor activities.
Whether you're seeking relaxation, cultural experiences, or outdoor adventures, Lowestoft has something to offer to make your holiday enjoyable and memorable.
In Lowestoft, there are several well-known places that visitors often explore. Here are some of the most notable:
Lowestoft Beach: The town's main beach is a popular destination for locals and tourists alike. With its wide expanse of golden sand, it offers opportunities for sunbathing, swimming, and beach games. The beach is backed by a promenade lined with cafes, restaurants, and amusement arcades.
Claremont Pier: Claremont Pier is an iconic landmark in Lowestoft. Originally built as a Victorian pleasure pier, it now houses a variety of entertainment facilities, including amusement arcades, a roller-skating rink, a bowling alley, and a restaurant with panoramic sea views.
The Scores: The Scores is a historic quarter in Lowestoft, known for its picturesque narrow lanes and traditional fisherman's cottages. Walking through this area gives visitors a sense of Lowestoft's maritime heritage. It is also home to the Lowestoft Maritime Museum, which showcases the town's fishing history.
Ness Point: Located on the easternmost point of the British mainland, Ness Point is a significant landmark in Lowestoft. It features a striking sculpture called "The First Light" by artist Mark Goldsworthy, symbolizing the sunrise and the town's relationship with the sea.
Carlton Marshes Nature Reserve: This expansive nature reserve offers a tranquil escape from the town center. It is home to diverse wildlife, including marsh harriers, otters, water voles, and rare plants. Visitors can explore the network of trails and enjoy birdwatching and nature photography.
Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park: Just outside Lowestoft, Pleasurewood Hills is a popular family attraction. The theme park features a range of thrilling rides, including roller coasters, water slides, and a variety of live entertainment shows.
Oulton Broad: Oulton Broad is a large inland lake connected to the sea by the Oulton Dyke. It offers opportunities for boating, sailing, and fishing. The broad is surrounded by scenic parks and gardens, providing a peaceful setting for walks and picnics.
Lowestoft Lighthouse: The lighthouse, located near the beach, is a prominent landmark in Lowestoft. While not open to the public, it is an iconic symbol of the town and adds to the coastal charm.
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It looks like a nice place to stay and walk round and visit and have something to eat and drink and the seagulls and nice and sunny day and plenty of places to have your food and drink and a very quiet place and nice clear water and beach thanks for showing me round
Another great & fantastic video of LOWESTOFT | Full seaside tour of Lowestoft, Suffolk😎😎😎😎
I've been a few times, last time was last month at the first light festival, it was packed! couldn't move for people, so different in this video! i like this part of Lowestoft along the sea front, lovely sandy beach which is a blue flag award winning so definitely not one of worst imo. There is a thatched roof cafe called The Thatch up on the green and a little Garden park. Further down is Pakefield cliffs and further still is Kessingland with cliffs and sand dunes. The only thing i don't like is the actual town centre, that could do with a refurb.
Nothing beats a good old British beach, & this is one of them. I have never been, but it looks great!
There is just something about a good ol British seaside. The nostalgia is amazing, especially if you lived in the 20th century. I remember 90s era of the seafronts and it was everything
I lived in Lowestoft in the late 1970s/early 80s. I have fond memories. It was lovely to see south of the bridge, where I briefly lived. I would sometimes walk there and swim there but mostly used the lovely sandy beaches north if the bridge/town centre, where I lived the longest. I now have a bout of nostalgia.
Thank you for your walks. It's nice to see how dogs are loved in England, there are bowls of water in many places.
Looks very nice.
I was born in Lowestoft in 1947 and left it in 1968 to go live overseas. Lovely to visit it by video and remember my childhood playing on the beach around Claremont pier. It was always a quieter place than Great Yarmouth, which was full of artificial entertainment places. The sea and the sand were always attractions enough on a sunny day for children back then.
Beautiful ❤
That brought back so many memories, my grandparents always had a beach hut for 2 weeks every July we had lots of family in the area who all used to visit. My brother and I used to play the penny machines in the Claremont Pier, use the putting green and walk to Kessingland Gardens to go on the electric boats. The fantastic sandy beach looks just as good 60 years on from those happy times.
I was down there last night! Had a pint or 2 at The Hatfield Hotel and scampi and chips. It was busy as it was a Saturday and the weather was wonderful!
A lovely walk! Thanks, Neil. 👍
Amazing seaside tour! Lowestoft, Suffolk is actually my hometown!
Hi Neil are you well thank you for the beautiful walk around llowerscroft really enjoyed it hope that you are okay after your fall best wishes take care stay safe xx ❤😊
Love your seaside videos..
Really great.keeping going !👍👏
That statue is a baker trying to make dough and then the dough started to fight him 😅😅😅 But Nice Walk !!
Hello from Pakistan ... nice walk 😊
in 1994 i sailed from hull docks to here on a boat called the aubry was a wonderfull time steering the boat to there. happy memorys another great video gimble and great yarmouth was a good one too.
is name is neptune
Soon I need to go there- it was fantastic to see
Thank you 🙏
Hello Gimbal I am bone and bread in Lowestoft I just want to thank you for film showing Lowestoft seafront beach and doing it justice I love my home town thank you.
Thank you so much ☺️
I've been going to lowestoft since I Was 11 years of age I'm 66 next month. Started going with parents then at 16 met my husband and we went every year until the pandemic , very sad I can no longer go as don't drive and hubby passed away 2021 so seeing this has cheered me up as I get to still see it. When we went it had always won the award for best beach I'm Britain so don't know where they get worst 5th beach that's rubbish, if I could I'd go again with my little dog we stayed on the caravan site in pakefield apart from a couple years when they were full so we rented a lovely little cottage in pakefield not far from the jolly sailors, we stayed in hemsby 3 times but would have a ride into pakefield for dogs to go on pebble beach as can only go on sandy beach out of season which is understandable. We had 5 holidays in bowness on windermere but would still have one same year in pakefield lowestoft. We loved it there.
What a lovely place ,i passed through years ago and remember driving along the main road and lights similar to railway crossing lights started flashing and the road began to lift apparently a ship was coming in , scared me to death to see the road lift ,is the bridge still there ? i cannot see why it has such a low rating the beach looks ace but what did it for me was the rows of beach huts and the rare upstair/downstair ones so colourful ,the ladies were having a whale of a time and love the wheel chair access to the beach hope the ambulance call out wasnt too serious and the person is well again, great relaxing video as usual ,but have you done one of clacton on sea and ive missed it .
I have definitely seen worse than Lowestoft beach. Btw Oulton Broad not far from there which is nice. While in Suffolk you should film around Southwold/Walberswick, Aldeburgh, Orford and Dunwich.
The beach is wonderful and that whole coastline is superb. I wish I could move there. We walked all the way to Kessingland from South Beach - taking the bus back! - and met many locals doing the same, and witnessed just a beautiful coast.
The criticism of Lowestoft is directed towards the town centre, not the coastline, and towards what once was a busy, thriving area between the two pears, which you now see cordoned off by security railings and lined with coastal defenses. This is where 'Childrens' Corner' used to be! And now it's just a bunch of rocks. The recollection of what used to be still reside in the town's collective memories , I'm afraid.
Agree with u
Quiet place
Wide and clean beach
Beautiful Sand
Yesterday i post a negative comment about skegness and g yarmouth
But lowestoft it s by far a better seaside resort
Thanks for the video it's nice to see what my old stomping ground looks like now
I was born and raised in Lowestoft and used to love walking along the beach especially during summer going to and from work would pass there
I have been abroad for almost 16 years now and have wondered how Lowestoft has turned out and it's a shame to see the beach is not as good as it used to be back when I last seen it in 2008 seems some of it has been lost to tide and all the rocks in place now
As for the fountains I don't think I ever recall seeing them operational that much and think many living there would agree that those fountains was a waste kf money and should have kept the public toilets as would have been useful for beach goers during summer
Well hope can see some more videos of the town see how things have changed
But again thanks for the video well worth the watch
Have you been to Cheddar Gorge in Somerset or Porlock? Also Dorset Places like Corfe Castle village, The Jurassic coast, Durdle Door, Sandbanks, Shaftesbury, Chesil Beach, Charmouth & Seatown.
Hush! We know it's a hidden gem.
Better to be thought it is crap than to be overcrowded.
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Thank you for great videos.. Lived here all my life and I was horrified to see the Lowestoft beach near the south pier, The rocks just dumped over the sea-wall to act as sea defence has just ruined the beach. I recall when the beach was full of people lapping up the sunshine and the sand was golden. Now the beach near the south pier - well it's not a beach any more, It's awful. The Lowestoft council should be ashamed of themselves, put the rocks further out to sea would be better but Health and Safety plus it would cost the council more money meaning less in there back pockets. But the beach up near and past the Claremont pier towards Pakefield still looks great. The council needs to clean up the sea-front. Right now it's a shambles. Fix the water fountains and remove the grass clumps on the beach would be a starters. CLEAN THE PLACE UP East Suffolk [Lowestoft Council]
Looks a very nice place .. one thing we have to remember people will go on the internet and make it their lifes work to leave bad review's under several different names, so i take these so called polls with a pinch of salt .
Triton, a God of the sea and child of Poseidon, is depicted bearing a horn of plenty illustrative of the town's maritime prosperity
My Hometown 💙
Very nice place
The 'water fountains' shut down during covid... and never re-opened.
Pity .. because it was always full of kids going wild and having fun.
They even had the fountains synced with classical music.
The comment "Yarmouth is a dump" is (in my view) incorrect, the town is very much like numerous seaside resorts that are suffering from ecanomic problems. Remeber this,,,Lowestoft was this countries great fishing industry, apart from the numerous vessles that brought home their catch the town also employed a huge number in this fishing port. I think its a town worthy of a visit, although near to Norwich its still situated in good old Suffok.
I love Yarmouth, it's Great.
Need to do Southwold unless you already have its just down from pakefield we used to be able to walk along the cliffs into Southwold until it started to erode.
Southwold is now on my hit list!
The statue looks like Neptune to me, but I might be wrong!
It's Triton 😊
I so prefer the sand to b pebbles, especially as I had a tibia plateau fracture and brittle bones. Sand is more stable for me. I love Lowestoft, Yarmouth, Hastings and Brighton
I think the trouble has been in the last few years it has had attractions either cancelled or they just stopped going there. There used to be things going on a lot there during the summer to draw crowds in like the Lowestoft Airshow, 1940s weekend, fairs, fates, vintage car shows etc, now most have stopped and so has seen a decline. The first light festival happened last month which has been sucessful and drew in the crowds, it needs more of that.
Gracias por compartir estos hermosos videos .a mi me encanta el mar , el aire fresco. Me gusta esta playa. Aunque sea mirarla por you tube
I'm moving to Lowestoft in two weeks time, however I'll be closer to Oulton Broad North train station
The statue is triton a lot of people think its Neptune but its not its triton I did research on it years ago.
Ahhh triton!
Loved the video, have you done the market town of Beccles nearby?
It's the Roman god Neptune.
From Austrslia I thought it was a lovely town and beack
Please make one in Somerset !
Its the 1st of September the metal barriers that stopped you going on the beach have all gone update for you.
Ah good!
I will back to film a new one ❤️❤️
@@GimbalWalkTV Look forward to that
There's also a school called Benjamin Britten.
Statue - Neptune or Poseidon possibly??
I prefer Felixstowe to Lowestoft tbf but you made it look better than it actually is ha
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Could be Pan (the statue).
Exeter please Exeter lancing near Worthing littlehampton
Brighton recently
Exeter Lancing
Why is the pier closed off
Not sure!
The end of the pier has been derelict for many years, the new owners are fundraising and have started to build it out again, it’s about 15-20 metres so far I believe, they are doing a good job but it’s incredible costly. Take a look at the video from walk with me Tim, he done a behind the scenes with the pier owners.
I never been there
Felixstowe is beautiful along by the seafront gardens...you should do there whilst you're in Suffolk.
I have an idea for a future video, not a walk as such but a trip on the Manchester Ship Canal, from Liverpool to Salford Quays, there is so much history along the route, when I did it years age I dont think I ever put my camera down. It still runs just google Manchester Ship Canal trips, the vessel used is a Mersey Ferry., Best Wishes Glenn
So am I SO READ THIS not like used to be it has gone down the into the waste bin now.
Ok
Comment nearly made sense????????
Huntingdon is on my itinerary next year and would like to see a walk with you first. Also I don’t think you’ve done Winchester. Thanks
@@deepbowl5108 why am I going? Mainly The Cromwell Museum and Hinchingbrooke House. Why I ask Gimbal Walk TV to do a video? Neil’s videos don’t just hit the main sites, they take you on a tour. I always watch his videos when visiting a new place in England. I follow on my map and see new things I may want to check out. He doesn’t emphasize them but I see charity shops I want to stop at. Or pubs or restaurants or shops.
I’ve also asked for Winchester. Not because I can’t find another video but because I like the way Neil does it.
You should visit Bakewell or Matlock Bath :)
He has already visited both Matlock and Matlock Bath. Not sure about Bakewell?
I live here have done for all of my life and it’s totally gone to 💩 moved to a village a couple of miles up the road because it’s that bloody awful
I was born and live inLowestoft. It was a great place to stay 40 year's ago. Today its a dump.
I lived there for a while until 8 years ago. I liked it but I do know what you mean. I notice from this video that the promenade area has been given a full upgrade. The town has suffered over recent years from a lack of investment and poor transport links. Considering what the rail links once were, they are deplorable now. I do hope the new Gull crossing will bring some benefits. It should certainly ease traffic congestion.
I agree lived here all my life it's just got so run down beach is ok that's it who would want too come here for a holiday no nothing here too do 😞
Hate to say this but after watching your video I think it needs to re-invent itself drastically!
As you say , nice beaches but not much more . I caught my first saltwater fish there on the dockside when I was 10 years old , a Mackerel !!
went last year a everything was closed down
the Pavilion was all derelict last year not the worse beach but i think the worse seaside place x
Looks like it's a struggling seaside resort sorry to say that
Having lived and worked locally for many years until recently thank you for reminding me how utterly awful it is.
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(it's is pretty dull isn't it) 🤣
I need to explore more of Lowestoft where my step father was from