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or the Red Herring Trail.
The Scores are a unique feature of Lowestoft. They are a series of narrow lanes created over the years by people wearing paths in the soft, sloping cliff as they travelled between the historic High Street and the Beach Village. The origin of the word ‘score’ is thought to be a corruption of ‘scour’, or possibly from the Old English ‘scora’, which means to make or cut a line.

Although the Beach Village is no more, the Scores are still of great interest to visitors. The Scores trail has been designed to help visitors to understand a little more of Lowestoft’s history and of the significance of these ancient pathways leading down to the sea.

Eleven scores remain of the original thirteen.
'Frosts Alley Score' ran between the police station and the magistrates court stand today.
'The Score' was the least used. It ran from the back of the vicarage, south of Arnold House, to Whapload Road. Access to the High Street was via the private garden of the house and was only used for emergencies, such as flooding in the Beach Village. Today only Arnold House is still extant.