Walk Buxton via www.norfolktrails.co.uk 12 Little Hautbois

Information Turn right at the road, go over the bridge and immediately turn right Start point Car Park, Stracey Road, Buxton again to climb the stile into a meadow. Keeping the on your • Grid Reference TG232229 right, continue through a series of fields beside the river via a couple of Parking Directions as for walk 11 footbridges and stiles; cattle usually graze these meadows. Distance 3.2 miles Bear right to walk under railway bridge, crossing a footbridge over a ditch Details Moderate gradient, 90% soft surface (the low lying to reach the river. Immediately after going under the railway bridge, turn meadows beside the river remain waterlogged after left to walk up the steps. Turn right onto the Bure Valley Way path. Cross periods of rain) the rail track at the gates to return to the start point.

Walk instructions From the car park, cross the rail track and turn right onto the Bure Valley Way path. Just before the bridge, go down the steps on the left, turning left at the bottom onto Mill Street. Pass Buxton Mill, walk for a short distance on the road winding beside the river, cross the road and turn right just after the 30mph sign/just before ‘The Street’ sign into a public footpath along a farm track. Continue along this farmland track over the hill and down towards Little Hautbois Hall, ignoring all other tracks. On reaching the end of the track, turn right, walk along a concrete track for a few paces, then cross both the railway line and the Bure Valley Way path. Ignore the Bure Valley Way path, instead bear left just after this, keeping the house and buildings on your right. Continue along the drive to the road.

50 51 Walk Buxton via 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 12 Little Hautbois lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. County Council. Licence No: 100019340. 2008.

A beautiful rural walk overlooking the Bure Valley, returning through meadows beside the river.

● Buxton watermill was mentioned in the Start P  The 1086 although the Stracey Street Road Buxton present Grade II listed building is a much  later date. The mill survived the havoc Mill Mill caused by the 1912 flood when the River River Bure Street Bure overflowed and the locks on the Aylsham river were destroyed. Road Buxton

Bure Valley Way

Bure Valley Railway

Little Hautbois Hall

River Bure

Key ● Milling production ceased in 1970, and the building was later converted to an art gallery, restaurant and craft workshops. A major fire virtually Walk destroyed the building in 1991 and it took 14 months of careful Parking P Mayton Bridge reconstruction to rebuild. The mill has now been converted into private Church apartments and continues to be a prominent building in the village. 0 ½km ● The walk passes the splendid Little Hautbois Hall, built in 1553 and set in private grounds by the River Bure. ¼mile

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