This B&B exudes Scandi panache and has a beautiful village setting on the north Norfolk marshes, but its USP is the fine dining at its Friday-night supper club
So is it “Clay”? Or “Clee”, to rhyme with key? On the edge of the village of Cley-Next-The-Sea, the pottery Made in Cley suggested the first pronunciation. But it turned out both were wrong: locals say “Cly”. The other part of its name is problematic, too: with the water nearly a mile away, “Cly” hasn’t been “next the sea” for centuries.
But it is next to a stunning wetland reserve and backed by undulating woods and fields (Noel Coward’s “Very flat, Norfolk” is also inaccurate), and such charms have long attracted second-home buyers, and London escapees such as James and Jennie Walker, who moved here last year with their young family.
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