Length: 16.0 km (9.9 miles)
Toughness: 4 out of 10
London Liverpool Street: 10-02 hrs Greater Anglia service to Ipswich Stratford: 10-09 hrs
Arrive Marks Tey: 10-57 hrs Change trains
Leave Marks Tey: 11-01 hrs Greater Anglia service on Gainsborough Line to Sudbury
Arrive Bures: 11-13 hrs
Return
Sudbury to Liverpool Street via Marks Tey: 15-26, 16-32, 17-34, 18-37 and 19-38 hrs
Rail ticket: Buy a day return to Sudbury, Suffolk
This lovely walk follows the River Stour in places as we walk through the Stour Valley on the Stour Valley path and the St Edmund Way - in Gainsborough country. I suggest you take the detour to Henny Street for lunch at the Henny Swan pub with its attractive riverside setting. For those who prefer to take the route to Bulmer Tye your lunch stop will be the Bulmer Fox pub. Picnickers usually stop in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Great Henny.
After lunch you take an undulating route to Sudbury, latterly on the embankment of a disused railway. Once on the embankment you can either head in an easterly direction for a direct route to Sudbury railway station, or - and recommended - you head in the other direction to drop down over water meadows to the delightful Bell Hotel, Sudbury, for walk-end refreshments. If you have room, their cream teas are delicious. From the Bell it is a sub-twenty minute walk to Sudbury Railway station, passing along the way Gainsborough's House (currently closed whilst undergoing a major refurbishment).
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N=9 set off through pretty countryside on an w=increasingly-sunny day. Relatively mud free. Up high, larks were singing, and, down low, flowers were poking their little heads out - violets, snowdrops, primroses, and that stuff that’s not quite blackthorn. Cherry plum probably. The biggest impediments today were wind-blown trees. These were first encountered on the path above Valley Farm and later, much worse, through Loshes Wood. Not dangerously big, but bushy and obstructive. But we climbed scrambled and pushed our way through like a resourceful troupe of orang-utans. A saw and a pair of loppers would not have gone amiss.
The group split at Great Henny, some picnicked, some did whatever and four headed down to the Swan where they ate inside, it not quite being warm enough to sit by the river.
Then on. Willows were being pollarded on the grazing meadow.. Then, much to Mr Tiger’s bemusement, everyone raced past the Mill House and on into Sudbury. This seemed rather illogical given there was a 40 minute wait for the 16:26 train. We could at least have looked at the dead cat. But hey ho.
A grand day out.
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