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Start: Waveney River Centre, Ferry landing Time: 2.5 hours (at a moderate walking speed with plenty of time to stop and enjoy the views) Distance: 5.7 miles Stiles: 5 2 Clothing: Route can be very wet 3 underfoot. Carry waterproofs. 4 15 5 6 7

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Oulton Broad & circular walks • Please return before dusk • Ternpike ferry service - tel: 07500-571232 1. From the ferry landing take the path right along the 10. Cross over the stile and follow the edge of the field 19. Turn right and at the next right hand bend take the top of the River bank for 130 metres. Pass the end of left to the access lane to Ivy House CountryHotel. public footpath straight ahead. This is signed the the new flood defence bank, due to be opened to Cross over the lane via the stiles and continue . the public late spring, and take the temporary steps along the edge of the grass field. Follow the worn 20. (11 on map) Follow the path through the holiday down the bank onto the grass field. path through three fields to another stile leading park. Leave the park over a stile to enter a grass 2. As you enter the field there is a new dyke on your into a holiday park. field. left. This is the borrow dyke from which much of the 11. The route lies straight ahead between two hedges, 21. Follow the worn path along the edge of three fields material for the new flood bank came. Walk parallel to emerge onto a lane. Keep straight ahead for a before coming to the access lane to Ivy House to this and the new bank. NOTE: These pastures few metres keeping an eye out for a gap in the wire Country Hotel. Cross over the lane via the stiles and can be rather wet and you may find it easier to seek fence on your left. Take this as it leads through a continue along the edge of the grass field. a route along the edge of the borrow dyke where short stretch of woodland onto a grass area. 22. (10 and 9 on map) At the end of the field cross over there is often a thin strip of drier land. 12. Walk to the end of the grass and turn right to follow the stile into an enclosed footpath. Follow this to 3. After 200 metres you cross over a culvert. Don’t a thin path which leads left to join a tarmac path. come to a junction with a path leading off to the go left to try to find drier ground but look directly 13. Turn left over the timber bridge to enter Nicholas right. Keep straight ahead to follow the now made ahead to identify some slightly raised ground. This Everett Park. Ignore the first right over the bridge up path between a fence and a ditch. is the path, head for it. and keep ahead right on the tarmac path. 23. Cross the Wildlife car park, to join the 4. As you near this slightly raised ground you will 14. Pass in front of the Rowing Club track leading out over the marshes. Through the see both a small waymark post and a temporary boathouse and slipways and turning left follow the gate immediately take the left hand path, with a sign pointing to the ferry, the way you have come. path around the edge of the park against the water temporary sign saying Alternative route to Ferry. Ignore a path on your right and keep straight ahead front. 24. This path skirts the edge of the marsh, and is joined following the raised and rather drier ground. 15. This will eventually bring you out onto the by another coming in from the right just before 5. Follow the track over another culvert then left Boulevard, passing through a gate. Pass through this and the towards a double gate structure. Oulton Broad. The return journey next gate to emerge onto a path between reed 6. Do not go through the gates but bear right beside beds. Keep straight ahead to a crossroads of paths. 16. (14 on map) Walk to the end of the Boulevard and them. You are now on a diverted path with large red enter Nicholas Everitt Park. Follow the path beside 25. Left goes into the reserve indicating no dogs signs showing the way ahead. the Broad all the way to the Lowestoft Rowing Club allowed. Take the track right ,opposite the reserve 7. The diverted path will eventually bring you out and slipways. Pass in front of the two boat houses, entrance. onto a track. Follow this track for half a mile to the turn right beside the slipway then first left to 26. This track eventually becomes a long straight route Suffolk Wildlife Trust car park. following the path. heading out across the marsh parallel with some 8. Enter the car park and turn left across it to pick up a 17. (13 on map) On reaching a junction of paths cross power lines. surfaced footpath running between an arable field over the timber footbridge and turn immediately 27. After three quarters of a mile you will reach a and a dyke. right. red path closed and diversion sign indicating a 9. Following the path you come to a junction where 18. (12 on map) Follow this thin path round to the right right turn over a bridge through a gate. The path the made up path turns left. Ignore this and until you come to a gate onto a lane. Do not go leads straight-out over the field. As you near the continue straight ahead to join an enclosed path through the gate but turn left onto the long area of new flood defence bank there is a temporary leading to a stile into a grass field. grass. Walk to the end of this and follow the worn sign indicating the ferry to the left. You have now path through a thin strip of woodland to a lane. rejoined your route out from the Waveney River Centre. Turn left and track back to the river then right to the ferry