Walking in Traditional English Lowland Landscape on the Suffolk-Essex Border
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The Stour Valley Picturesque villages, rolling farmland, rivers, meadows, ancient woodlands and a wide variety of local wildlife combine to create what many describe as the Walking in traditional English lowland landscape on the Suffolk-Essex border. The charm of the villages, fascinating local attractions and beauty of the surrounding countryside mean there’s no shortage of places to go and things to see. Visiting Bures & the Stour Valley Ordnance Survey Explorer Map No 196: By Bus - Bures is on the route between Bures Sudbury, Hadleigh and the Dedham Vale. Colchester and Sudbury. Details at www.traveline.info By Car - Bures is on the B1508 between Colchester and Sudbury. By Train – main line London Liverpool Street/Norwich, change at to Marks Tey. There is FREE car parking at the Recreation Bures is on the Marks Tey/Sudbury Ground in Nayland line. Details at www.greateranglia.co.uk Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley Project Email: [email protected] Tel: 01394 445225 Web: www.dedhamvalestourvalley.org To Newmarket Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Local circular walks – free AONB leaflets To Newmarket Stour Valley Project Area Local cycle routes – Stour Valley Path free AONB leaflets Great Bradley To Bury St Edmunds To Bury St Edmunds Country Parks and Picnic sites Public canoe launching locations. Great Bradley Craft must have an appropriate licence To Bury St Edmunds www.riverstourtrust.org To Bury St Edmunds Boxted Boxted To Great Crown copyright. All rights reserved. © Suffolk County Council. 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Licence LA100023395 Flatford Boxted Langham MANNINGTREE Wormingford Great Dedham Horkesley Langham MANNINGTREE Cavendish Wormingford To Colchester Glemsford Crown copyright. Leaflet produced November 2019 and funded by: Great To Colchester Horkesley To Colchester To Colchester Foxeart Bures nestles in the valley at the To Bulmer Boxted Halstead To h crossing Bury St Edmunds point of the Stour, where footpaths rise out of the village giving Tw Printed on Recycled, FSC,Melfor Long the opportunity to enjoy beautiful views instea Content and images provided by Bures St Mary Parish Councillors Leigh Ashton, Jan Aries and Gill Jackson.Lamars ECF, Carbon Balanced Paper d d h SUDBUR Cornard Great Wo Bure Y rmingfor s as Bures St Mary, but the section on worth a visit. Dating from circa 1220 Leavenheat A107 d the Essex bank of the Stour forms the it was built as a private chapel in the 1 Naylan h Horkesle separate Civil Parish of Bures Hamlet. courtyard of a manor house that was Bures & Ipswic To Highlights Hadleigh Great d To demolished during the 14th century to h Colcheste Bures was a wealthy industrial whethery the monkey commemorates a THE RIVER STOUR was, until leave the structure isolated in a deer 1 town in the Middle Ages, pet with an unfortunateStoke-by-Nayland habit is open r 3 Po the Danish conquest in the ninth park. It was subsequently converted Boxted specialising in the manufacture of to question. Close inspectionlstea of the Langha d century, the boundary between the into a barn, and is still known locally To woollen cloth. It retains many timber- exposed Colchester wall timbers reveals evidence Stratfor m Higham St Mary Kingdoms of the East Saxons to the as Chapel Barn. It was restored in the framed houses from the 14th, 15th of projecting oriel windows that would d 1930s when the stone and alabaster and 16th centuries including The Old have rivalled any in the region. Raydon Dedham Bergholt effigies of the Earls of Oxford were Bakery. Later facades of plaster and Flatfor East brought here from Earls Colne Priory 2 To brick now disguise many timber framed St Mary’sd Church dates Ipswic for safe keeping. These monuments are buldings, such as Church House. The mainly from the 14th century and h MANNINGTRE among the best of their kind in Britain. carved jetty bressumer (see below contains numerous impressive features Cattawade It is one of several sites in Suffolk photograph) at the High Street office including one of the finest timber- E laying claim to be the site of the of W.A. Church Ltd. dates from the framed porches in East Anglia. The roof crowning of St Edmund on Christmas of the nave was destroyed by lightning Church’s Office Day 855. The outline of a dragon has in 1733 but a rare wooden effigy of a been cut into a nearby hillside to medieval knight survives inside, along River Stour & Bures Mill commemorate the appearance of a with a series of monuments to the south and the Angles to the north, but dragon in Bures as recorded in the Waldegrave family of Smallbridge Hall. by the time of the Domesday Survey in Chronicle of John de Trokelowe for the In the 11th century the church was 1086 the parish straddled the border year 1405. The dragon is said to have known as All Saints and, until the 16th with approximately a third of its killed some sheep before being chased century, St Mary’s was a chapel in the land in Essex. The river split into two into a mere by the armed men of Sir churchyard. The parish was previously channels to form a natural crossing. Richard de Waldgrave. Menageries of called Great Bures to distinguish it The smaller channel bisected the exotic beasts were highly fashionable from Little Bures in Essex (now Mount medieval Common on the Essex bank in aristocratic circles during the late Bures), but adopted the dedication of but was filled in when the predecessor Middle Ages, and if this event really St Mary’s and River Stour of the present Victorian iron bridge was occurred it may perhaps relate to the built in the 17th century. Bures Mill, escape of a Nile crocodile from the to the south of the village centre, is documented example upstream at an attractive weatherboarded building Clare Castle. early-16th century and is among the of the 18th and early-19th centuries best of its kind in the country. This with a rare fragment of a 16th century building belonged to a wealthy tanner predecessor to the north. and depicts both a merchant on horseback and a butcher at his block. 4 St Stephen’s Chapel on the These are probably portraits of his hill to the east of the village is the neighbours. Dancing bears would have its Norman church in the 13th century. oldest building in the parish and is well been a common sight at the time, but The ecclesiastical parish is still known St Stephen’s Chapel EXTENDED WALK TO VISIT ARGER FEN AND TIGER HILL Follow the path opposite the stile, which leads up over the brow of the Walking in hill. At the top, turn left, then right shortly afterwards, following the waymarked path down to Over Hall Walk 1 Cottages. When you reach the road, Bures - An Essex Escape turn left. Continue along the road, passing High Fen Seed Store on your Walk 2 left, until you reach the parking bay - A Suffolk Stroll and entrance for Arger Fen. - Extended Walk Once you have visited Arger Fen, continue along the road, crossing over Map based on Ordnance Survey Copyright mapping. All rights reserved. a small brook via a wooden footbridge Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright. Suffolk County at the side of the road. Almost Council Licence No. 100023395 2019 immediately after the brook, turn left through the large gate and follow the footpath along the edge of the field, passing through another large gate, Countryside and continuing along the edge of the Code next field. During this section, Tiger Hill can be seen to your right. You can visit by The area has a network of footpaths heading up through the field, and 4 and bridleways. We have marked suggested routes on this map and simply retracing your steps back to the have a few simple suggestions to footpath to continue onwards. 1 help you enjoy the area safely and Follow the path to the gated wooden 2 assist our work to care for it. bridge on your left. Cross over and Please follow the Countryside Code: follow the footpath off to the right, www.gov.uk/government/ with the brook on your right. Follow publications/the-countryside-code this path along the field margins, Start 3 occasionally crossing over the brook Plan ahead and follow any signs. as waymarked, all the way back to the Start • Leave things as you find them. • Take your litter home. track from Moat Farm. Cross this track • Help look after our plants and to retrace your steps back along the wildlife by keeping to footpaths field margin to the stile with the dog and not trampling verges. shutter on your right. • Dogs are welcome, but please keep them under close control at all times, especially when Cross over the stile, and walk, across amongst farm animals and in the flood meadow to the next stile bird nesting season over Assington Brook.