Ted Ellis Walk

Walk Ted Ellis www.norfolktrails.co.uk 1 Walk Photograph: D Minto Start point Guildhall car park Bishop Bonner’s Cottages GridreferenceTF987132•PostcodeNR191XE Bishop Bonner’s cottage appears to have been constructed in the early Parking Any town centre car park 17th century although the earlier date of 1502 can be found in the Guildhall car park (2 hour limit) adjacent to start point plasterwork. Today the building is a museum celebrating the history Distance 1 mile of Dereham. Please visit the website for more information about the museum and its opening hours www.derehamhistory.com Details Flat, 50% soft The Guildhall The Guildhall is a listed building with some of the earliest parts dating back to around 1500. Only one wall of this early structure survives and the rest Walk instructions was converted to a large mansion (probably in the 17th century) after the guild dissolved in 1548. The building has been significantly altered since 1. Walk out of the car park entrance on to St Withburga Lane. this time and parts of it now date back to both the 18th and 19th centuries. Turn right and cross the road towards the school. The 18th century stable block has been converted to a conference centre 2. Turn left on to Washbridge. After a short distance, walk over the bridge with other parts of the building now housing various offices. A Cold War and bear left on to Ted Ellis Walk. nuclear shelter also exists under the car park. 3. After approximately 250 yards turn left on to the soft track just before Ted Ellis Walk bends sharply to the right. This track takes you through the water meadow. 4. Keep following the path until you reach the playing field. You will see a bridge in front of you. Turn left on to the wide gravel path and follow all the way to the end. 5. Turn left on to Rollingpin Lane and follow until you reach St Withburga Lane. 6. Turn left and walk for a short distance before turning right in to the car park. 8 9 Walk1 Ted Ellis Walk P A short, easy walk crossing Swaffham Scarning Meadows, a county Road wildlife site rich in biodiversity. Scarning Meadows Church Street P Scarning Meadows is a County Wildlife Site Washbridge Ted Ellis Walk Start Queen Mother’s with public access and consists of a mosaic of Dereham Road Garden habitats on sandy clays and peat soils within School a broad, shallow valley of a small tributary of P St Withburga the River Wensum. The site is composed Lane Photograph: Norfolk Wakes primarily of dry marshy grassland and derelict fen, County Council Lane P with patches of mixed scrub. Fragments of tall fen and wet alder carr lie to the North. The meadows are Vicarage managed by the Norwich Diocese through Natural England’s Meadows Environmental Stewardship scheme which aims to deliver (County significant environmental benefits across the site. There are Wildlife Site) Rollingpin also areas of permissive open access and newly created wood Lane (Path) pasture for the public to enjoy. Please observe the local signs Recreational and map boards for more information. Cattle may be present area Scarning on the site over the summer Meadows Ted Ellis Walk Key Ted Ellis Walk is named after the well known writer and broadcaster Walk Edward Augustine Ellis or Ted Ellis (1909-1986). A famous Norfolk Parking P naturalist, he devoted much of his life to natural history and was Keeper of Natural History at the Castle Museum in Norwich from Church ½km 1928 to 1956. For forty years he lived with his family at Wheatfen Broad, Surlingham which is now a nature reserve. For more 0 ¼mile information about The Ted Ellis Trust and the Wheatfen nature reserve, visit the website www.wheatfen.org This map is based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Norfolk County Council. Licence No: 100019340. 2009. 10 11.

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