Book1 Walk 8
LENGTH 9.9 Miles (16km)
TOUGHNESS 3/10
TRAINS. Liverpool St. 10.02 to Marks Tey 10.57/11.01
Arrive Bures 11.13
Buy a return to Sudbury (Suffolk)
Return trains from Sudbury are 15.26, 16.32, 17.26.
LUNCH There’s a choice of two pubs (on two different routes) but to my mind it’s got to be
https://www.thehennyswan.co.uk/ for its superb riverside location whether or not you decide to test it’s reputation for good food.
https://thefoxbulmertye.co.uk/ is also available
You could also shorten the walk by about a mile by avoiding lunch and walking straight ahead (due north) from Great Henny church to Sudbury.
TEA Arriving in Sudbury you can shortcut directly to the station and its nearby Waitrose, or stay on route across the water meadows to the Mill Hotel. Here one can have a drink while viewing the meadows on which a herd of cows is often grazing. On the way out you can look down on the skeleton of a cat, entombed under the floor in times gone by.
T=1.8
L=1.8
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I wasn’t counting but did I hear N=18 for this walk? A big turnout for a “Essex” walk, even if a big part of it is actually in Suffolk. I must say I was surprised by how pleasant an outing this was. I think in the old book rota days it used to be done in November. In April it is much prettier!
W=Good-amounts-of-sun helped. This was not in the script and so a nice surprise. I also enjoyed the varied birdsong and the acres of red deadnettle flowers. It was as if a child had got a bit carried away splashing flower colour around the landscape. Halfway through the morning I also saw my first orange tip butterflies of the year. God, I love April! And there are 29 more days of it to go…
A few picnicked in Great Henny churchyard, enjoying the grassland flowers. A big contingent went to the Henny Swan pub, where we sat in the garden by the river and enjoyed tasty hot sandwiches from the bar menu. Many of that group carried on along the shortcut route to Sudbury afterwards, but three of us, made of sterner stuff, went back to Great Henny (where a public spirited old guy was mowing the churchyard, thus destroying the flowers), and then did the proper route, minus the dog’s leg to the original lunch pub.
Seven or eight of us eventually reconvened in the Mill Hotel for cream tea (or coffee) with a view of the Sudbury watermeadows. We made sure our walk to the station took in Waitrose and enjoyed the fruit of the grape and happy chat on our ride back to town.
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