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INFORMATION GENERAL JO VAUGHAN HEADS TO TO NEAREST CLUB SITE: Seacroft, ENJOY A STROLL AROUND THE GROUNDS Road, NR27 9NH. Tel 01263 51438. Open 3 Jan 2009 to 4 Jan 2010 OF ONE OF THIS COUNTY’S FINEST HOUSES DISTANCE: 3.2 miles/5.1km TERRAIN: Good paths, some of which are gravel ELBRIGG HALL, less than four Having left the car park, you partially NUMBER OF STILES: 0 miles from the Club’s Seacroft site, follow the Church and Lake Walk ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT: Felbrigg is a gorgeous house. Boasting Stuart before continuing along the Tree Trail Park Estate Walks and Specimen Tree F architecture and a fine Georgian interior, before finishing up down Victory Walk. Trail map it is surrounded by stunning parkland. This gives a good all-round view of the LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: Very easy Many of the major pathways around the estate, but you’ll need one of the Estate REFRESHMENTS: estate are gravelled, making them suitable Walks and Specimen Tree Trail leaflets, ❖ DIRECTIONS AND PARKING: The for rugged pushchairs or wheelchairs – which shows you the other paths entrance is off the B1436 two miles although our walk does take you over a available and gives details of all the south-west of Cromer. It’s also couple of fields and along some woodland beautiful trees you’ll encounter along the signposted from the A148 and A140. Ordnance Survey tracks. But, whatever the weather, this way. Also, it’s two for the price of one, as Park in the main car park, which costs £2 Landranger Map 133 per day or is free for NT members should be a civilised walk that won’t get the reverse of the map details nearby TOILETS: Felbrigg Hall your boots too muddy. Park.

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Felbrigg Felbrigg DIRECTIONS Park Church At the signpost beside one of the two 1Pay and Display machines, follow ‘Church, Park and Lakeside walk’, passing Felbrigg Pond through a small wooden gate beside a red dog litter bin. Continue along the trodden grassy footpath ahead.

Veer left at the track and continue to the 2church. Walk past the church and go Go through a small wooden gate and ignoring the wooden posts which direct through a small wooden gate next to a larger5walk along the wooden boardwalk. Turnyou to the left with a red and white arrow. wooden gate. Then veer slightly right to left before the next wooden gate ahead, Soon, at a clearing with the panel telling walk diagonally across the field, towards following the ‘Weavers Way’ sign, keeping 8you about the ‘Victory V’, keep straight two tall trees. between two barbed wire fences. Go ahead past the park bench and veer slightly through another gate. Go through the wooden gate and turn right to walk through a long avenue of trees, still on the gravel path. Go through a right past a small wooden bench, Keep right where the path forks. At 3 wooden gate and pass the dog litter bin, following the stone wall. Go through a large the formal gravel track turn left, 6 looking out for the donkey enclosure on wooden gate and continue along the heading away from some metal gates and a the right. lakeshore, passing to the right of a ‘Fishing cattle grid. Pass through the wooden gate by Permits Only’sign. Wooden seats make beside a cattle grid and continue ahead Continue ahead until you pass through this a great spot for a picnic. through another similar gate, again beside a metal gate that takes you back to the a cattle grid. 9 Go through a small wooden gate and car park and your vehicle. 4veer around to the left, following a Just before the white painted house muddy track. Where there’s a crossroads in7turn right, keeping a barbed wire fence the path keep straight ahead, following a to your right, and continue through the small green and white arrow on a small postwoodland. Keep to the gravel path, but just beside a young oak tree with a ‘Weavers past a small brick outbuilding (the Ice Way – Norfolk County Council’ sign. House) and a wooden seat keep right,

INFORMATION ATTRACTIONS

Felbrigg Hall, Garden and Park, disabled access to grounds and flamingos. Full disabled access Felbrigg, Norfolk NR11 8PR. Tel the house’s ground floor Priory Maze and Gardens, 01263 837444 or see Amazona Zoo, Hall Road, Cromer Road, , nationaltrust.org.uk. Open – house Cromer NR27 9JG. Tel 01263 Sheringham NR26 8SF. Tel 01263 1 Mar-2 Nov; gardens 1 Mar-31 510741 or see amazonazoo.co.uk. 822986 or see Dec; estate all year from dawn to Adults £8.50, children £6.50, priorymazegardens.co.uk. Open dusk. Adults £7.90, children £3.70, seniors £7.50. Open daily from all year. Adults £5, children £2.50, INFORMATION TOURISM families £19.50, free to NT 10am until 2 Nov. This brand seniors £4.50, dogs 50p. As well as members. A grand old mansion new attraction has a wide range the gardens themselves, which Information Centre, complete with a fine Georgian of animals from Tropical South feature a magnificent maze, there’s Louden Road, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 exterior with a walled garden, America including jaguar, a plant centre and tea rooms. 9EF. Tel 0871 200 3071 or email orangery and orchards. Partial otters, spider monkeys and Mostly wheelchair accessible [email protected]

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