Mid-Suffolk Footpath 2: Thorndon to Mendlesham
27 November 2011
With Lucy popping briefly to Norfolk, a sunny if
blustery autumn afternoon offered the opportunity for a shortish walk
before it got dark,
progressing further along the Mid-Suffolk Footpath from Thorndon near
Eye where Stephen had reached on the
previous visit earlier in the year.
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After leaving Thorndon, there was an autumnal section through open
woodland
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Crossing a bridge to emerge on farmland
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Once safely across the A140, it was a quiet lane past Stoke Ash school
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The road was very quiet indeed once past the school
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And the road ended in the middle of a field, becoming a public footpath
which in practice was a track to a house
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...a house with a difference, being surrounded by a moat
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The public footpath then made its way across this field, which
fortunately was sufficiently dry underfoot that it was easy going.
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Field edges brought us to the village of Thwaite, which apparently dates
from 890.
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This track around field edges took us from Thwaite to Mendlesham as the
sun set
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Mendlesham village and church in the distance
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Approaching the church, but there's Lucy just arriving - time to go
home!
Total 7.4 km in 1 hour 44 mins.
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