Welcome Location Haughley, set in the valleys of the Gipping and streams, provides a host of A1088 walking opportunities in the heart of ’s HAUGHLEY B1113 GREEN rolling countryside. WETHERDEN Haughley has a long history. It was once one of HAUGHLEY Haughley Suffolk’s most important towns, but suffered at the A14 A1308 end of the 16th Century when a great fire A1120 destroyed much of the village. This brought about Walks the end of the town’s market, which then moved B1115 3 circular walks to Stowmarket. around historic Today Haughley is a thriving community. It has Haughley is situated just off the A14, about 3 miles Haughley a famous bakery, Palmers, which was established north-west of Stowmarket, 13 miles east of Bury over a hundred years ago, and the Post Office is St Edmunds and 15 miles west of . Park in possibly the oldest in Suffolk (and possibly the the village centre along Old Street. oldest in the country). There is also a public house, a restaurant, a general food store, a vet, Public Transport several farms and many other businesses. Public transport is available to Haughley. Bed & Breakfast and holiday accommodation is Visit www.suffolkonboard.com for timetables or also available. www.travelineeastanglia.co.uk (08712 002 233) The walks described in this leaflet take you on to plan your journey. a fascinating journey around the village and surrounding countryside. The walks all follow Discover Suffolk footpaths, tracks and quiet Discover more great days out across Suffolk at lanes, are between 3¾ www.discoversuffolk.org.uk and 5 miles long and Produced by Suffolk County Council and can be combined Haughley Parish Council. for a longer day out.

Printed by Design & Print IP2 0UH 01473 260600 Haughley sits in a strategic location midway on a working farm and enclosed by a large moat. Moats and Lanes between Ipswich and , an ideal It was once the home to the Sulyards, a location for a castle. 2 The castle, previously prominent Suffolk Catholic family. Start: St Mary’s Church, Haughley known as Hageneth or Hagenorth Castle, was Distance: 5 miles (8km) built around 1100 and consisted of a man-made Just before a small wooden bridge, turn Duration: 2½ - 3 hours mound, the ‘motte’, which had a fort on top, and right to walk beside a belt of trees towards St Mary’s Church 1 dates from the 12th century an enclosed surrounding area, the ‘bailie’, where Haughley Green. Turn right at the road, left and is unusual in that its tower and nave are the community lived. The castle was destroyed in at the main road, and then right into New separated by a south aisle. The war memorial in 1173 by the army of Lord Leicester and today its Bells Lane. the church grounds was erected in 1920 only to only inhabitants are ducks in the moat! be blown down in a gale and replaced by a plain Just south of New Bells Lane lies Walnut Tree cross in 1947. In 1995, the original cross was Cross the stile and turn right to follow the Manor. This is the birthplace of organic farming. restored, names re-inscribed and the names of footpath around the edge of the field, into In 1939 Lady Eve Balfour and Alice Debenham the fallen from WWII added a second field and then over a small bridge started the ‘Haughley Experiment’, the first to a third field. Continue to a railway scientific comparative study of organic farming Follow the footpath between the church and crossing and follow the footpath beyond, and conventional chemical-based farming. the school to cross a field to a stile. To your alongside a driveway, to a small lane. Cross Their studies led to the establishment of the Soil left Haughley Castle once stood. to follow the footpath opposite. The Association. Today the manor is used as an footpath signs guide you around the field. activity and education centre.

At the footpath junction 3 turn right and follow the path alongside a large field, with Continue along New Bells Lane to the right a green barn beyond, to the top of the rise. angled bend. 4 The path continues ahead into a copse. At the lane turn left, continuing To your west lies Wetherden Hall, past a moat. The lane becomes a grassy a 15th century hall situated path beside a field. At the bottom of the hill turn right. Keep ahead until you pass under the railway line 5 . Walk up the rise – an ancient lane known as Haugh Lane, to a main road. Turn left along a driveway through Mere Farm and follow the footpath alongside a mature hedgerow. At the road, turn right to return to Haughley. Haughley Walks 3 circular walks around historic Haughley

Visit the interesting air raid shelter made by a local resident, located in the corner of The Cricket.

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3 2 KEY TO MAP Moats and Lanes Tunnels and Halls Gallowsfield Wood Wetherden Excursion Explore Gallowsfield Wood Public Footpath Bridleway Continue along the cycle path to Map based on Ordnance Survey Copyright mapping. All rights reserved. Unauthorised reach Gallowsfield Wood, 20 acres of reproduction infringes Crown Copyright. wooded peace, nature and tranquility. Suffolk County Council Licence No. 100023395 2013. Tunnels and Halls a narrow footpath between a fence and hedge Turn left at the footpath leading along a grassy to another footpath near a railway tunnel. path beside a copse. This leads downhill to Start: Old Street, Haughley Turn left to follow the red route from5 . pass behind houses into Wetherden. At the Distance: 3¾ miles (6km) road turn right (Park Road) 4 . Duration: 1½ - 2 hours Wetherden was recorded in the From the village centre head down Old Street, Wetherden as “Watdena” or “Wederdena”. Wetherden was turning left into Station Road. Just past home to the Sulyards who lived in Wetherden Hall. Harvest Close, turn right to follow a footpath Excursion In the 15th century Sir helped build 1 around the edge of a large field. Go over St Mary’s Church, inside is a limestone and marble a small footbridge, over a ditch and along Start: Old Street, Haughley Distance: 6 miles (9½km) monument to Sir John. The village also has a , a grassy path between 2 fields. Keep straight the Maypole. ahead to a gap in the hedgerow. Cross a ditch Duration: 3-3½ hours to follow the footpath to a lane 2 . Follow the directions for the Red Walk and at Continue south along Park Road and at the At the lane, turn left. Keep on the lane and the footpath junction 3 continue ahead, past main road turn left. Just south of here lies soon after East Barn (on your left) you pass the driveway to Wetherden Hall Farm, keeping Haughley Park 5 . under the railway 3 . the ditch on your right. Cross the wooden footbridge and at the top of steps turn left 1 . The Sulyards also built Haughley Park, a 17th The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, The ditch is now on your left. Cross the next century Grade-1 listed manor house set in 6 acres known affectionately as the wooden footbridge, and keep straight ahead of landscaped gardens. The land was originally “Middy”, once branched off with another ditch on your left. Continue granted to the Sulyards by Mary Tudor, the sister near here. Built in uphill, then between paddocks to the railway of Henry VIII. the Edwardian era, the line. Turn right, downhill, to meet a lane 2 . The estate is open to the public at various times “Middy” was a late-comer Follow this under the railway into of the year, including bluebell season. to the railway scene, being Little London. constructed just when Walk along the grass verge into Haughley mechanised transport was At the main road turn right and next left New Street. Here you pick up pavement to making an appearance on the towards Warren Mill House 3 . the former A14 6 , now a cycle lane. At the roads. It effectively went broke before it opened footpath, turn left and just before a gate but managed to struggle on for almost 50 years, A windmill once stood right, along a track following the tree line. finally closing in 1952. There is a museum about alongside Warren Mill The footpath signs guide you through the the “Middy” located in Wetheringsett. House. It was a post mill, meaning tree belt, over a stream and a stile. After the railway, climb the stile on your left the whole body of The footpath then leads diagonally across and follow the footpath. At the road turn right the windmill the field towards Haughley Church. turned to face and immediately left into Haugh Lane4 . Climb a tall stile and continue to the road. Keep to the concrete track, passing under the wind. It was Turn left and then right to return to the railway. At Furzwood Rise follow dismantled the village centre. in 1904.