Angles Way 7: Homersfield to Earsham
10 March 2012
After saying goodbye to one visiting friend on a Saturday morning, there was a
little gap before the next visiting friend arrived in the afternoon, just time
to nip up to Norfolk for another walk on the Angles Way. Although I'd originally
planned stage 5 to take me on to Ditchingham, the shortage of time today meant
that I cut stage 5 short, and have extended stage 6 which will still take me to
Beccles, ready for the last three stages for which I will use the train. But
today was another bus day, the 1132 taking me from Earsham back to the road
between Wortwell and Homersfield, from where a short walk took me back to the
Angles Way.
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Leaving Homersfield, there is this very unusual village sign, carved in 2000 out
of an oak tree. Apparently it is known locally as the Totem Pole
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The top of the Totem Pole
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Walking around one of the flooded gravel pits of Flixton Park
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A lot of quarrying is still going on
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Turning away from the quarry, most of the rest of the walk is along tracks
across farmland
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The attractive Shingle House and barn
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Flixton Mushrooms Ltd produced an interesting aroma
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Another track continues my route
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The path diverts around a field with a few horses. Are those old railway
carriages?
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Looking across Broad Water to Earsham, journey's end for today
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From the same point looking across the flood plain of the Waveney to Bungay,
with a well solar-panelled farm.
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A bridge takes the route over Broad Water, an alternative route for part of the
Waveney's waters. The bit of blue plastic tubing makes stepping over the wire
fence a little easier.
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A footbridge takes me across one of the Waveney's channels hereabouts
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The cut running from Earsham Mill. Although the Waveney Navigation only reached
Bungay, I wonder whether this long artificial cut was linked to navigation,
bypassing a lot of meanders nearer Bungay and perhaps enabling craft to reach
the mill.
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The church of All Saints in Earsham, unusual in East Anglia in having a spire,
added to the 14th century tower.
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A wildly inaccurate signpost - it is 10.25 miles to Harleston and 10.8 miles to
Beccles via the Angles Way from this point.
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The Street in Earsham and the end of today's walk.
Total walk was 10.9 km in 2 hours 31 mins (including 10.4 km along the Angles Way).
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