Home & Away: Finding summer getaways closer to home in the Anglia region

  • Watch Kate Prout's Home & Away report on the countryside around the north Norfolk coastal town of Wells-Next-The-Sea

With so many of people unable to go further afield on holiday this year it is a great time to re-discover what is already on our doorstep and make the most of the staycation summer.

ITV News Anglia reporters are telling us about some of their favourite places and hidden gems across the East of England.

Wells-Next-the-Sea is a picture perfect seaside town and one that attracts the crowds at this time of year so we're going on a journey inland instead.

The Wells & Walsingham Light Railway has been dubbed the world's smallest public train service Credit: ITV News Anglia

Known as the world's smallest public railway, the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway runs on a 10¼ inch gauge track.

It steams down a four mile route on the former Wymondham to Wells branch line that was closed in 1964

Train driver Nick Denny says there are quite tricky things to drive: "It's quite a hilly railway which is surprising for Norfolk."

"There are gradients here that really make the thing work hard. We sometimes get slipping coming out of the station."

One of the well kept secrets of the area is Warham Camp. Built around 2,000 years ago by the Iceni Tribe, it is probably the best preserved Iron Age fort in the Eastern Counties.

You can walk all around a Site of Special Scientific interest which is home to a myriad of species including the chalkhill blue - the only place in Norfolk to see this tiny butterfly.

Warham Camp south of Wells-Next-The-Sea is one of the best preserved Iron Age hill forts in the East of England Credit: ITV News Anglia