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Stalham l Ingham l Honing l Worstead l Dilham 1 l Distance: 22.8 miles (36.8 kilometres) l Time: 3 - 3 /2 hours Sutton Staithe. Quiet open space with picnic area, moorings Worstead. Once home of the Flemish weavers, this village and boat hire. There is a hotel with a bar and restaurant. The gave its name to the cloth ‘Worstead’. The prosperity from village has a small shop. the wool helped build St Mary’s church, started in 1379. Ingham. This small village has an impressive church. Built There are some fine buildings in the square from varying with a priory in the 1300s you can see the priory arches, old periods in history. doors and windows as you walk around the church. Weavers Way Old Vicarage Gardens, East Ruston. Beautiful gardens with It is possible to cycle along this section of the Weavers Way many rare and unusual plants. The gardens have been although it is quite rough and can be muddy. The Weavers designed and created by Alan Gray and Graham Robeson. Way is so named to reflect the once great influence of the Tea shop, plant sales, toilets. For opening times phone weaving industry in this part of Norfolk. From its start at 01692 650432. Cromer it heads south to Aylsham passing the estates of Crostwight Heath. The sandy nature of the soils here and Felbrigg and Blickling. It then heads east to Stalham along traditional grazing favoured the growth of heather. This kind the route of the old King’s Lynn to Great Yarmouth railway. of habitat, rich in wildlife, covered much of this part of From Stalham the route makes for The Broads and Potter Norfolk. When grazing dramatically declined here, scrub and Heigham from where it follows the River Thurne south to gorse grew up - shading out the heather and many other Acle. The final section heads east to the coast and Great plants. The Norfolk Wildlife Trust is helping restore this Yarmouth. heathland, clearing scrub and sowing heather seeds. North Crostwight Whimpwell + Walsham Green Happisburgh Eccles on Sea Weavers Common Way Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (2011). Maps copyright © 2010 OpenStreetMap D and its contributors and used under a OAD L RO C OOL oRa Creative Commons Share-Alike license O Rd ad a CH Hemp d n S s a CCbySA2.0 which means they can be na Old Vicarage t e al e freely copied providing the same or (d Gardens is D ) A equivalent terms are applied to the ) O O Lessingham RUS R East copies. EAS TR TO East N Honing Ruston Briggate Hempstead Heath Ingham Corner T W E Lyngate E eavers G R NIG S T LL A P A 1 E 1 E Ingham G N O N O 4 Wa A O S 9 L S E y N E O T L S A G N IN PI E THOR Worstead EP CAL RPE ROAD Sloley TE Worstead Dilham S + A149 Stalham FIE FIELD ROAD Frankfort Hickling Sutton Mill NEW EWROA D Pottery 0 Kilometres 1 2 Sutton 51 11 0 Miles 0.5 1 A.