Horsham St Faith to Aylsham 20 mile cycle tour In 1939-40 an RAF base was 1663. built at Horsham St. Faith. It Mill Pond of the old Horstead Church of St John became home to the Liberator flour mill on the River Bure. The aeroplanes of the 458th mill burned down in 1963 and Bomber Group of the 2nd Air has been left as a ruin although original colour and is open all Division of the USAAF. The site the 18th Century thatched Mill day for visitors. now forms part of Norwich House barn can still be seen on Aylsham’s church of St Airport. the left just past the ruin. Michael is believed to have Charles II is said to have Legend has it that once a year been built by John of Gaunt often visited the Black Swan the ghost of Sir Thomas Boleyn when he was Lord of the Public House and the Prince passes over the bridge at Manor. There is a splendid of Wales’ feathers can be Coltishall carrying the head of 15th century font and the seen on the south west wall Queen Anne Boleyn, the pulpit dates from 1637. as a reminder of its royal doomed wife of King Henry VIII, past. who was born at Blickling. Mill Farm has a former corn The Old School House was built mill that is visible through the by the parish around 1720 to gates. The now derelict tarred educate 10 poor children. Next five-storey mill was built about to this is the site where in 1810 1880 for local farmer and Roman urns and the foundations dyer Joshua Harper and was of a Roman settlement were one of the last to be built in found. The Coltishall Parish Norfolk. Church of St John the Baptist The 17th Century Heggatt has a 15th Century tower but was largely rebuilt in 1865. The Hall, set in beautiful parkland, Hautbois Hall amongst the trees. This was church is open all day for visitors. the home of the Warde family Elizabethan Little Hautbois and there is an over mantel in Hall dated 1555 by William Useful telephone the house that bears the arms Baspole which, in 1694 was numbers of George Warde of Brooke, converted into a trust for the Aylsham Tourist Information Centre poor of Peter Parmentergate in 01263 733903 Easter – 30 September open daily Norwich. Today it forms part of 10am-4.30pm. a local farm. Further on are October – Easter 10am-2pm (closed beautiful views over the rich Wednesday & Saturday). grazing marshes of the Bure Broadland District Council 01603 431133 Valley and Buxton Mill. Local Police (non-emergency number) Buxton Parish Church of St 0845 456 4567 Andrew. The church dates from the 14th Century but was Useful websites restored in 1881. It has good www.sustrans.org.uk www.ctc.org.uk monuments, the remains of a www.nationalcyclingstrategy.org.uk 16th Century screen with www.rospa.co.uk www.heron.nhs.uk Black Swan Public House 26 15 Turn left here back towards Coltishall. Approximately 1500 yards past the 16 Railway Tavern Public House on a left hand bend, turn sharp right into Hautbois Road. 17 Immediately after Great Hautbois parish church, turn right into Seven Acres Lane. 18 Turn left at the T junction. Passing a Here the road bends sharply to the right pond on the left at the next junction, 19 over the railway bridge. Take the next turn right into Great Hautbois Road. left hand fork into Little Hautbois Road. Follow this road for ¾ mile. 20 At the end of this road turn left into ‘The Street’ signed for Buxton. 25 After ½ mile you will reach Buxton Mill. 21 A working mill was first recorded here in DIRECTIONS the Doomsday book of 1085. From Norwich take the A140 north towards Cromer. After passing under the railway bridge, 22 turn right at the junction into Aylsham 1 Turn right to Horsham St Faiths 1 ½ Road. Follow the road through the miles from Norwich Airport. 24 village out into the countryside. 2 Passing through St Faiths turn right at At the staggered T junction, turn right the Black Swan Public House then take 23 towards Brampton (Not signed) the first right into Waterloo Road. At the end of the road turn left into 23 24 After passing under the railway and Spixworth road. 20 over the river bridge, continue for ¾ mile before turning left at the cross After 1 ¼ miles turn left at the T 21 roads. 3 junction towards Frettenham. 22 On entering the village of Burgh next After 1 mile turn right into Pound Hill 25 4 Aylsham, turn right into Wood Lane at then Mill Road. the village sign. Follow the road for 1 ½ miles and at the end, turn left through 5 On reaching Frettenham turn right after passing the windmill on the left 19 Tuttington Plantation to the main A140 into School Road, continuing through road. the village bearing left at the next Turn right signed Cromer, then first left junction into Hall Lane. signed Aylsham Industrial estate. After ½ mile turn left into Stanninghall 18 6 Road. 15 7 At the end of the road, cross straight over the B1150 signed to Heggatt Hall. 17 14 After ¼ mile, turn left into Heggatt 8 16 Road signed for Horstead. 13 Coltishall 11 9 On reaching Horstead turn right onto 10 12 the B1150, go straight over the mini 9 roundabout and over the River Bure into Coltishall. Over the bridge, turn into Church 10 Street signed B1354 to Wroxham. Continue through the village past the 11 Kings Head Public House on the right and on the left past the lovely Hazel Wood House, dated 1766. Horsham St Faiths 7 8 After passing Coltishall House on the 5 12 left, turn left into Belaugh Green Lane. After ¾ mile turn left and at the end 4 6 13 of this road turn left again. Turn right when you reach a small triangular green into the picturesque hamlet of St James. In St James, turn left just before the 14 red brick cottage into ‘The Hill’. Follow the road crossing over the Bure Valley Follow the road for approximately 1 3 26 Railway until you reach the B1150. mile into Aylsham. Free parking is available. The A140 to Norwich is 2 signed from the Market place. 1 Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery © Office Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to preosecution or civil proceedings. Licence No. 100022319. www.broadland.gov.uk.