Length: 16 km (9.9 miles)
Toughness: 4 out of 10
London Liverpool Street: 10-02 hrs Greater Anglia service to Ipswich Stratford 10-25 10-09 hrs
Arrive Marks Tey: 10-57 hrs Change trains
Leave Marks Tey: 11-01 hrs Greater Anglia service to Sudbury
Arrive Bures: 11-13 hrs
[ Greater Anglia usually hold the connection to Sudbury at Marks Tey from the London train, but holders of senior railcards might prefer a more relaxing interchange, allowing for a coffee, by taking the 09-38 hrs service from Liverpool Street to Colchester Town, arriving Marks Tey at 10-33 hrs ]
Return
Sudbury to Liverpool Street via Marks Tey: 26 mins past the hour
Rail ticket Buy a day return to Sudbury Suffolk
Covid-19 Compliance: please note the current guidance on this website and observe social distancing. You should all come prepared to exchange contact details for track and trace purpose. You can either pre-register for this walk (not essential ) by e-mailing me at swc-marcus@walkingclub.org.uk or, if you prefer, please write your name, e-mail address and contact 'phone number on a small piece of paper for handing to me on the train or when we assemble at walk start. Thank you.
This pleasant, undulating walk (but with no steep hills) takes you along the Stour Valley on the named Valley footpath and the St Edmund Way, in a northerly direction from Bures (which straddles the Essex and Suffolk borders) to Sudbury, Suffolk, home of the painter Thomas Gainsborough.
I suggest today we take the detour from Great Henny to the Henny Swan pub in Henny Street, with its attractive outdoor tables overlooking the River Stour (let's hope the weather is conducive for outdoor dining today).
After lunch we head for Sudbury, an hour away, where those wanting an early bath can take the direct route along the disused railway embankment to the railway station, leaving others to head in the other direction along the embankment to drop down across water meadows (we might be a little early for their famed buttercups) to make for the delightful Mill Hotel, for an outdoor cream tea (recommended). Allow some 20 minutes from the hotel to the railway station for the hourly service back to London, again changing trains at Marks Tey.
This walk seldom disappoints.
T=1.8
Walk Directions are here: L=1.8
3 comments:
Hi Marcus. The train from Liverpool Street seems to arrive at Stratford at 10:09 and not 10:25.
So it does, Anonymous - I quoted the Shenfield time by mistake. Thank you for spotting this. Posting now corrected.
Theres a new train on the stretch between Marks Tey and Sudbury. Creaky old Michael Palin has been retired. N=8 got off. The weather was w=dry-sunny-some-cloud On the way round we saw stitchwort, speedwell, cow parsley, spring beauty, and hardly any bluebells. Some had lunch in Great Henny churchyard. 3 ate at the Henny Swan under a canopy. The rest just drank at a table by the river, a tranquil spot where we were visited by a mayfly, keen on having its picture took. Snap snap snap went the cameras. Then on. Some of us sped up and caught the 4.26 The rest trundled and caught the 5:26 after having traversed the grazing meadow with its muted display of buttercups –(a bit early). We took tea at the Mill House. There were shrieks of horror when it was announced that cream teas were off - till next week. So it was just tea. Apart from the two who had puddings.
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