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Use on the grass at the Village Hall on on Hall Village the at grass the on is optional parking at at parking optional is C C 3 3 3 3 3 B B 2 2 2 b 2 2 OS Explorer Map Explorer OS , but there there but , All walks start from Church Road (IP31 1JS) 1JS) (IP31 Road Church from start walks All B B 2 2 2 b 2 2 A A 1 1 1 1 1 a A A 1 1 1 1 1 a Please note, there are no pubs or facilities in Great Livermere. Great in facilities or pubs no are there note, Please plan your journey. journey. your plan LUDGATE www.travelineeastanglia.org.uk. (0871 200 2233) to to 2233) 200 (0871 www.travelineeastanglia.org.uk. series of walk guides. guides. walk of series Visit www.suffolkonboard.com for timetables and and timetables for www.suffolkonboard.com Visit and Ixworth Walks, 2 other leafl ets in the Discover Suffolk Suffolk Discover the in ets leafl other 2 Walks, Ixworth and The walks in this leafl et can also be linked to Troston Walks Walks Troston to linked be also can et leafl this in walks The runs between Bury St Edmunds and Thetford. Thetford. and Edmunds St Bury between runs Great Livermere is served by bus service 332 which which 332 service bus by served is Livermere Great open waters, through old woodlands and across wide fi elds. elds. fi wide across and woodlands old through waters, open Public Transport Public pine trees. The various walks in this leafl et will take you over over you take will et leafl this in walks various The trees. pine landscape characterised by loose sandy soils and belts of of belts and soils sandy loose by characterised landscape the War Memorial. War the Water, located on the southern edge of The Brecks, a a Brecks, The of edge southern the on located Water, memorial and village sign is IP31 1JS. All walks start at at start walks All 1JS. IP31 is sign village and memorial Great Livermere is one of several villages edging Ampton Ampton edging villages several of one is Livermere Great BILDESTON LAVENHAM An approximate post code for a parking area by the war war the by area parking a for code post approximate An BOXTED boarded belfry. The church is open every day. day. every open is church The belfry. boarded St Edmunds and 3.5 miles (5km) north-west of Ixworth. Ixworth. of north-west (5km) miles 3.5 and Edmunds St thatched church, St Peter’s, with its distinctive weather- distinctive its with Peter’s, St church, thatched LAWSHALL Two Mere Strolls Mere Two COWLINGE and approximately 4 miles (6km) north-east of Bury Bury of north-east (6km) miles 4 approximately and War Memorial, a village sign, and a 12th century medieval medieval century 12th a and sign, village a Memorial, War A134 A143 FINBOROUGH Great Livermere is situated just south of RAF Honington Honington RAF of south just situated is Livermere Great GREAT CHEDBURGH and surprising links to some famous people. At its heart is the the is heart its At people. famous some to links surprising and Directions A11 Today, it is a relaxed, quiet village with a fascinating history history fascinating a with village quiet relaxed, a is it Today, Walks OUSDEN HORRINGER Nowton Park Nowton WOOLPIT DALHAM suggest a coagulated lake from old English “lifrig” (clotted). “lifrig” English old from lake coagulated a suggest MENDLESHAM EDMUNDS A14 A14 BURY ST BURY 20% of settlements at the time. Other derivations of the name name the of derivations Other time. the at settlements of 20% NEWMARKET A14 Great Livermere Livermere Great population of 52 households which placed it in the largest largest the in it placed which households 52 of population A143 A140 with a fi shery, a horse, 3 cattle, 3 pigs, 100 sheep and a a and sheep 100 pigs, 3 cattle, 3 horse, a shery, fi a with A142 GREAT LIVERMERE LIVERMERE GREAT A11 fl ooring and heating. It is recorded in the Domesday Book Book Domesday the in recorded is It heating. and ooring fl H RT WO IX B1113 OW ST WEST rushes were once widely used for roofi ng, ng, roofi for used widely once were rushes N TO TROS Circular Walks Circular A134 RICKINGHALL A143 which means the lake where rushes grew: grew: rushes where lake the means which HEPWORTH ON MILLS ON RT BA HONNINGTON century Olde English word ‘laefor-mere’, ‘laefor-mere’, word English Olde century A143 BOTESDALE in 907AD and may derive from a pre-7th pre-7th a from derive may and 907AD in MARKET WESTON MARKET A11 DISS The name Livermere was fi rst recorded recorded rst fi was Livermere name The B1113 A140 A1066 THETFORD Welcome Location At the west end is a hanging sign depicting a In the 1740s Baptist Lee of Livermere and Lord A Mere View falcon. The sign records an inscription on a barely Calthorpe Esq of Ampton joined their parks by R CULA WA IR LK legible headstone just right of the south door. developing a serpentine ‘Long Water’ to link Broad DISTANCE: C Approx. 3 miles (4.5 km) This is the grave of William Sakings, the forkner Water and Ampton Water. Lee used some of his C I K R L C £30,000 won in a state lottery in 1733. The work was A U (falconer) to King Charles I, King Charles II and L W A DURATION: 1.5 hours R TERRAIN: Estate tracks, King James II. He lived in a cottage that once stood carried out by Irish Navvies during the expansion near the War Memorial. of the canal system when labour was plentiful. In grassy footpaths, woodland 1767 Arthur Young described it as “with a harmony There is also a memorial to Montague Rhodes paths, some road walking. very unusual, made a noble serpentine river through James. Once Vice Chancellor of Cambridge Gently undulating, easy walking. both parks and built a handsome bridge at their University and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, joint expense”. The co-operation between these two M.R. James became famous as creator of the 1 1 1 1 a estates was the fi rst of its kind in the country! Park in Church Road near the War1 Memorial.A A Follow the antiquarian ghost story, so called because there 1 1 1 1 A A 1 a 2 2 2 b tree-lined lane away from the Memorial,2 2 B to reachB St Peter’s would always be an antiquarian object that 2 2 2 2 B B 2 b Church through the white3 gate.3 3 3 C C 3 Follow3 3 the3 track,3 risingC C gently3 beside large fi elds to Oak Grove a unlocked a supernatural menace. He changed a 4 4 4 4 D D 4 the genre of ghost writing away from Gothic and 4 on4 your4 left,4 theD siteD of Livermere4 Hall.