leisure time: broadlands DIRECTIONS LOCAL ATTRACTIONS Exit the main entrance and turn right, I crossing the road to walk along the Toad Hole Cottage, How Hill, Ludham. Tel 01692 678763. Cost: Free. Open: Easter, 1 April, May and October – Monday to Friday from 10.30am to 1pm, 1.30 to 5pm, and pavement. Continue past the Dog Inn, Saturday and Sundays from 10.30am to 5pm. Also, June to September daily from taking care where the footpath runs out. 9.30am to 6pm. A tiny recreated marshman's cottage from Victorian times that Continue past the derestricted road sign. also acts as an information centre. Disabled access: Downstairs only (steep stairs As the road bends to the right, and to the second level). Nearby car park for blue badge holders 2you pass some farm buildings on the I Wildlife Water Trail, from near Toad Hole Cottage, How Hill, Ludham. Tel 01692 left, turn left down a lane and continue 678763. Cost: Adults £4, children and concessions £3, families £8. Open: April, past Whitehouse Farm (on your left). May, October at weekends and bank holidays. June to September daily on the hour Where the path forks beside some from 10am to 5pm. Tickets from Toad Hole Cottage or Broads Information Centres. A 3more buildings keep left. Go through guided tour of the dykes and river Ant on the Edwardian-style Electric Eel. Disabled the kissing gate by a metal gate signed access: Wheelchairs can't be accommodated, although help is available for getting on and off the boat ‘The Limes Farm’, and continue up the I Bike hire from Ludham Bridge Boat Services, Ludham Bridge Boat Yard, Ludham track (grass growing along the centre). NR29 5NX. Tel 01692 630486. Cost: Adult bikes £10 per day, £7 per half day or £5 for Where the track veers left, continue two hours. One week hire £45 4straight ahead following a yellow arrow, past a rusty metal gate, and then up the slightly overgrown track. Continue The bridleway turns to the left and between two hedgerows. ABOVE: Broadlands along the left side of a field, and then 10 around the field’s perimeter. At the Go down the left of the field then Caravan Club Walk continue straight ahead, with the end, turn right following a blue arrow 12 through a gap in the hedgerow. BELOW: Drainage Mill, hedgerow on your left, as you head (keeping a line of trees to your right). Bear right to diagonally cross the next How Hill BOTTOM: The Mill towards the distant river. Keep straight on, with the hedgerow to field and continue to the road, crossing to House, near Ludham At the T-junction turn right, still your right, towards a line of buildings. At the pavement before turning left. 5following a yellow arrow. You can now another footpath junction keep to the Take the second road on your right see a windmill ahead of you. Just past the same hedgerow (still on your right), 13 (Lovers Lane, No Through Road). wooden fence and gates, turn right to which now also follows a line of telegraph Having passed one field, walk to the right head along a muddy track, now walking poles. At the lane, turn left before turning following a public footpath sign, keeping a between two fences. Veer right at the right at the junction (sp. Horning). hedgerow on your right and a field on your house, but just after the gorgeous Pass the row of houses, and then, at left. Go through the farmyard then turn thatched cottage turn left, following the 11 a large telegraph pole, turn left right at he lane. At the T-junction (there’s direction of a public footpath sign following a yellow public footpath arrow a Give Way sign) turn left. Cross to the Walk on the (partially hidden on your right). This down a narrow alley beside a white house pavement and return to the site. takes you along a hedge at the end of the cottage’s garden. Continue down the narrow path between the hedgerows. BROADLANDS WALK: 6.8 miles (10.9km) Go through the small wooden gate. 6Veer to the right along the small dyke Summer House and then veer to the left just before the Crome’s Wood two old wooden posts, to cross a narrow Farm WILD SIDE wooden bridge with only one railing, still following the yellow arrows. Clayrack CONTINUING LAST MONTH’S WATERY GENERAL INFORMATION Very soon, when you get to the lane, Drainage Mill turn left. Continue past How Hill Boardman’s NEAREST CLUB SITE:Broadlands Caravan Club 7 Drainage Mill How THEME, JO VAUGHAN GOES A-BROAD Farm, but when you get to a sign stating BOATBOAT Hill Site, Johnson Street, Ludham, Great Yarmouth TRIPSTRIPS The Mill House NR29 5NY. Open until 31 October ‘How Hill Nature Reserve Car Park for i P ituated in the depths of the to follow the river Ant from Ludham DISTANCE:6.8 miles/10.9km Toad Hole Cottage and Wildlife Trails’ M TOURIST Norfolk Broads, Broadlands is a Bridge, so instead I headed towards TERRAIN: Clear paths, except one slightly veer left following the arrow. Walk Turf Fen How Hill INFORMATION Drainage Mill Farm The Sperfect base for exploring this How Hill. Here, you’ll find an array of overgrown section through the car park and pass through the Laurels Toad Hole Cottage, How area of natural beauty. Dykes and rivers drainage mills to admire as well as a small NUMBER OF STILES: 0 gap in the narrow hedge beside the Hill, Ludham. Tel 01692 G flow nearby, and there are hundreds of museum. This resides in a marshman’s ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT:Ordnance Survey Explorer information board. 678763. Email Whitegates Ludham miles of level paths to walk and cycle, cottage, Toad Hole, which was home for OL40 - The Broads Continue across the lawn. At the end, toadholeinfo@broads- LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: Easy many of which are far enough from an entire family in Victorian times. Just veer left and continue down the lane authority.gov.uk. REFRESHMENTS:The Dog Inn, near Ludham Bridge 8 roads to provide a peace rarely found outside its front door, pleasure craft to another car park. Head through this TOILETS:Just outside the campsite entrance at The Limes elsewhere. chug up and down the water and a Ludham Bridge, or at Toad Hole Cottage during and past the entrance to Toad Hole CYCLE & BOAT I did find many of the local paths to wildlife trail offers a chance to see some opening times Cottage to the river. HIRE be overgrown, particularly when trying of the area’s varied flora and fauna. Once on the tow path, turn right to Whitehouse 9have a peek at the windmills, and then Farm return through the car park adjacent to Hall Common ABOVE: The river Ant at Toad Hole Cottage. Continue down the How Hill lane, keeping to the left of the lawn. Go past the house and back to the main lane. The Dog Farm Shangri La RIGHT: Sights to delight Turn left here (opposite Windmill House) along ths splendid Bridge Farm walk then, opposite the large house with the balcony, turn right following the public CYCLECYCLE & BOATBOAT bridleway sign. This takes you between HIREHIRE two hedgerows. 30 The Caravan Club Magazine September 2005 www.caravanclub.co.uk www.caravanclub.co.uk The Caravan Club Magazine September 2005 31.