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HAVERHILL Sitting about 10 miles from Bury, newmarket and LONG MELFORD Haverhill, it inspired local author John Bean to Walks write “10 miles from Anywhere”. it contains three Wickhambrook is located where the A143 meets the B1063, almost equidistant from newmarket, Haverhill, Three circular walks 16th century timber-framed manor houses, ten Long melford and Bury St edmunds. village greens and a post box unique to Britain. it around Wickhambrook once had a resident mole catcher and until 1980 All walks start at the memorial Social Centre car park on Cemetery road (CB8 8XP). even had a vineyard at Genesis Green! Wickhambrook hosts an annual carnival and Public Transport flower show, and each year presents the Alf Wickhambrook is served by bus service 14 Hicks Biscuit Barrel award to a resident between Bury St edmunds and Haverhill. recognising their outstanding service to the Visit www.suffolkonboard.com for timetables or community. The village has an excellent website, www.travelineeastanglia.co.uk (08712 002 233) to well worth visiting, packed full of information at plan your journey. www.wickhambrook.org. OS Explorer Map The village stores and Greyhound pub (greyhoundwickhambrook.co.uk) are use O.S. explorer map 210 newmarket & Haverhill to open every day. enjoy this walk and the wider area. Please follow the Countryside Code: Discover Suffolk Consider the local community and other people Discover more walking and cycling leaflets by visiting enjoying the outdoors. www.discoversuffolk.org.uk. Follow us on
Leave gates and property as you would find them Produced by Wickhambrook Parish Council and and follow paths unless wider access is available. Suffolk County Council. Leave no trace of your visit and take your litter home. keep dogs under effective control. Plan ahead and be prepared. Follow advice and local signs.
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been a busy, interesting place to live. in Saxon A143 times it was called Wickham and was clustered WHEPSTEAD around the church, today a conservation area. A134 Circular Walks The Doomsday Book records the village as WICKHAMBROOK A143 “Wicham”. it is the largest parish in Suffolk and has over 25km of rights of way. LAVENHAM Wickhambrook A134
HAVERHILL Sitting about 10 miles from Bury, newmarket and LONG MELFORD Haverhill, it inspired local author John Bean to Walks write “10 miles from Anywhere”. it contains three Wickhambrook is located where the A143 meets the B1063, almost equidistant from newmarket, Haverhill, Three circular walks 16th century timber-framed manor houses, ten Long melford and Bury St edmunds. village greens and a post box unique to Britain. it around Wickhambrook once had a resident mole catcher and until 1980 All walks start at the memorial Social Centre car park on Cemetery road (CB8 8XP). even had a vineyard at Genesis Green! Wickhambrook hosts an annual carnival and Public Transport flower show, and each year presents the Alf Wickhambrook is served by bus service 14 Hicks Biscuit Barrel award to a resident between Bury St edmunds and Haverhill. recognising their outstanding service to the Visit www.suffolkonboard.com for timetables or community. The village has an excellent website, www.travelineeastanglia.co.uk (08712 002 233) to well worth visiting, packed full of information at plan your journey. www.wickhambrook.org. OS Explorer Map The village stores and Greyhound pub (greyhoundwickhambrook.co.uk) are use O.S. explorer map 210 newmarket & Haverhill to open every day. enjoy this walk and the wider area. Please follow the Countryside Code: Discover Suffolk Consider the local community and other people Discover more walking and cycling leaflets by visiting enjoying the outdoors. www.discoversuffolk.org.uk. Follow us on
Leave gates and property as you would find them Produced by Wickhambrook Parish Council and and follow paths unless wider access is available. Suffolk County Council. Leave no trace of your visit and take your litter home. keep dogs under effective control. Plan ahead and be prepared. Follow advice and local signs.
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Follow Cemetery road downhill past the cemetery. At The first building on the left, at the top of the hill, the crossroads, on the left, is the united reform Church was the village bake house until 1996 when Ron Southto meeting House (beyond is the Greyhound Pub) 2 . Penhaligan, the baker, and his wife Edna, the deliverer, retired. MaltingEnd ‘Dissenting worship’ began in Wickhambrook in R CULA WA IR LK C 1670 when the Rev. Samuel Cradock came to
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A R downhill and round the edge of the field to Wash Lane just DurATiOn: 2 hours unauthorised preaching on Sundays and it above the ford 6 . Turn left, up to the main road. became a Dissenting Academy. Dissenter s were WAYmArker: Green Circular Walk barred from studying at Oxford or Cam bridg e so The building opposite, Bank House, was once the many influential preachers studied in this village. In 1726, the aptly named Thomas Priest 2 village bank run by Lloyds. Follow the red walk to came as Pastor to the dissenters and wa s instrumental in raising money to build the Turn right into Coltsfoot Close and immediately left onto a Turn right and follow the pavement, crossing Cloak Lane, Meeting House we see today. The building footpath. This grassy path runs behind houses before until you reach the school. Turn right onto the footpath 7 . opened in 1734. swapping sides of a hedge, skirting the Waste Water Treatment Works, and then reaching Cloak Lane. Wickhambrook was late acquiring a school as no- Continue ahead and at the top of the hill take the Turn right 3 . one was prepared to give land. One was bridleway on the right 3 . At the end negotiate a dog leg eventually opened in 1878. Along the footpath to continue downhill between fields. Cross the concrete Cloak House on the left used to be the Cloak is the thatched School Cottage. This was bridge and follow the field edge to the right. A t the field Public House until it closed in 1989. It is corner, turn left and head uphill towards trees. You will originally on the donated site and with no 4 enter a shady corridor which leads to a road. Turn left . supposedly haunted by ‘a little old fo undations was dragged by horses to its present lady in white.’ At the junction, on your location. In 1890 there were 150 Soon after Coopers Croft take the footpath on the right. This leads across a small meadow, then a stile and onto right is the large pink coloured Commerce House. pupils, much the same as today. The frontage a narrow path beside a fence. The Church of All Saints This is the tallest thatched house is original. can be seen in the distance. This path opens up to a field in Suffolk and used to be a coffee house and headland which continues downhill. Go through a kissing grocery shop. At the recreation ground, after passing the te nnis co urts, gate and enter a grassy path between hawthorn hedges. head diagonally left to return to the car park. On reaching a gravel track veer left to find another Cross the main road and climb the stile to follow the kissing gate and the road. Turn right. The Church of All footpath. After the second stile continue beside the brook Saints 5 is on the left. until you reach the road. Continue ahead to a bench on Attleton Green 4 , one of ten greens in Wickhambrook. ChurchCircuit The White House on the right was once an inn and between 1940 and 1980 housed the doctor’s R Opposite the bench, take the footpath over a metal CULA WA IR LK DiSTAnCe: 4 miles (6.5km) C surgery. One local u sed a donkey to travel and footbridge, and follow the path through a wooded ribbon,
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map based on Ordnance Survey Copyright 5 mapping. All rights reserved. unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright.
Suffolk County Council Licence No. 100023395 2018.
Follow Cemetery road downhill past the cemetery. At The first building on the left, at the top of the hill, the crossroads, on the left, is the united reform Church was the village bake house until 1996 when Ron Southto meeting House (beyond is the Greyhound Pub) 2 . Penhaligan, the baker, and his wife Edna, the deliverer, retired. MaltingEnd ‘Dissenting worship’ began in Wickhambrook in R CULA WA IR LK C 1670 when the Rev. Samuel Cradock came to
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