16 Mile Trail

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 25.76 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 7h 35 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: No
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 88 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 90 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 44 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 0 m
  • ⚐
    District: Ipswich 
  • ⚑
    Start: N 52.04189° / E 1.116139°
  • ⚑
    End: N 52.03791° / E 1.116431°
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Description

Start the plot by indicating the starting point. If you know the exact car parking situation, please explain how to park.
If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

Add waypoints by clicking on the map.

The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S : km 0 - alt. 21 m - Start on Bridgwater Road
  2. 2 : km 0.37 - alt. 13 m - Turn slight left
  3. 3 : km 0.49 - alt. 11 m - Turn right onto Belmont Road
  4. 4 : km 0.88 - alt. 13 m - Turn left onto Quilter Drive
  5. 5 : km 1.06 - alt. 7 m - Turn left
  6. 6 : km 1.58 - alt. 8 m - Turn left
  7. 7 : km 1.61 - alt. 6 m - Turn right
  8. 8 : km 1.65 - alt. 6 m - Turn slight right
  9. 9 : km 3.05 - alt. 41 m - Turn slight left onto Buck's Horns Lane
  10. 10 : km 3.16 - alt. 44 m - Turn right
  11. 11 : km 5.84 - alt. 40 m - Turn sharp right
  12. 12 : km 6.68 - alt. 41 m - Keep left onto Pond Hall Lane
  13. 13 : km 7.16 - alt. 41 m - Turn slight right onto Pond Hall Lane
  14. 14 : km 7.92 - alt. 40 m - Turn left onto Potash Lane
  15. 15 : km 8.58 - alt. 39 m - Turn left onto Church Road
  16. 16 : km 9.45 - alt. 35 m - Turn sharp right
  17. 17 : km 10.96 - alt. 35 m - Turn right
  18. 18 : km 11.26 - alt. 26 m - Turn left
  19. 19 : km 11.26 - alt. 26 m - Turn slight right
  20. 20 : km 11.67 - alt. 29 m - Turn left onto Lemons Hill
  21. 21 : km 11.99 - alt. 25 m - Turn sharp right
  22. 22 : km 12.43 - alt. 25 m - Turn right
  23. 23 : km 12.55 - alt. 34 m - Turn slight left
  24. 24 : km 12.59 - alt. 35 m - Turn right onto Coxhall Lane
  25. 25 : km 13.33 - alt. 27 m - Turn left
  26. 26 : km 14.62 - alt. 35 m - Turn right
  27. 27 : km 16.07 - alt. 37 m - Turn left
  28. 28 : km 16.48 - alt. 35 m - Keep left
  29. 29 : km 16.6 - alt. 36 m - Turn left
  30. 30 : km 17.39 - alt. 3 m - Turn slight left onto B1456
  31. 31 : km 17.39 - alt. 3 m - Turn left
  32. 32 : km 17.89 - alt. 5 m - Keep right
  33. 33 : km 18.69 - alt. 16 m - Turn slight right
  34. 34 : km 19.41 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto The Strand
  35. 35 : km 19.53 - alt. 4 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto A137
  36. 36 : km 19.58 - alt. 3 m - Turn slight left onto Wherstead Road, A137
  37. 37 : km 19.72 - alt. 4 m - Keep right
  38. 38 : km 20.95 - alt. 2 m - Turn slight right onto Bobbits Lane
  39. 39 : km 21.15 - alt. 2 m - Turn left
  40. 40 : km 21.96 - alt. 17 m - Keep left
  41. 41 : km 22.15 - alt. 20 m - Turn slight left
  42. 42 : km 22.26 - alt. 15 m - Turn right onto Grove Hill
  43. 43 : km 22.27 - alt. 14 m - Turn left
  44. 44 : km 22.36 - alt. 9 m - Turn left
  45. 45 : km 23.16 - alt. 8 m - Turn left
  46. 46 : km 23.29 - alt. 6 m - Turn right
  47. 47 : km 23.33 - alt. 6 m - Turn left
  48. 48 : km 23.36 - alt. 8 m - Turn right
  49. 49 : km 23.65 - alt. 6 m - Turn sharp left
  50. 50 : km 24.47 - alt. 41 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Hawthorn Drive
  51. 51 : km 25.07 - alt. 36 m - Turn right onto Bridgwater Road
  52. 52 : km 25.67 - alt. 13 m - Turn slight left
  53. E : km 25.76 - alt. 12 m

Useful Information

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Other walks in the area

Walking Into the Valley of Wherstead

Walker
Into the Valley of Wherstead
↔5.62 km ↗+43 m ↘-49 m ◔1h 45 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Wherstead (Suffolk)

The historic villages of Wherstead and Freston are great for exploring the unique farmed and estuary landscapes of the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB. The walks take in Freston Wood, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Walking Wherstead Woodlands

Walker
↔7.58 km ↗+34 m ↘-40 m ◔2h 15 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Wherstead (Suffolk)

On the ‘Wherstead Woodlands’ walk, you can see more ancient woodland, the Stalls Valley, farmland and the villages of Wherstead and Freston.

Walking Foxhall and Brookhill Wood

Walker
Foxhall and Brookhill Wood
↔4.80 km ↗+12 m ↘-11 m ◔1h 25 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Foxhall (Suffolk)

Short circular walk around heaths and woodlands of Foxhall, Ipswich. A pleasant stroll around the heaths and woodlands around Foxhall, to the east of Ipswich. The walk is short but nonetheless a pleasant way to while a way an hour or two. Natural woodland, babbling stream and if you look very carefully you may even see what remains of Foxhalls All Saints Church

Walking Across the Dam and Up the Creek

Walker
↔7.76 km ↗+24 m ↘-24 m ◔2h 15 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Stutton (Suffolk)

This walk gives fantastic views over Alton Water Park. The longer walk leads you to Holbrook Creek and passes through the pretty village of Stutton. A shorter walk visits a nature reserve and the Tattingstone Clifton Wonder, a building designed to deceive!

Walking Wildlife and Wonder

Walker
↔4.85 km ↗+9 m ↘-9 m ◔1h 25 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Stutton (Suffolk)

This walk gives fantastic views over Alton Water Park. The longer walk leads you to Holbrook Creek and passes through the pretty village of Stutton. A shorter walk visits a nature reserve and the Tattingstone Clifton Wonder, a building designed to deceive!

Walking Alton Water Reservoir

Walker
Alton Water Reservoir
↔12.30 km ↗+9 m ↘-9 m ◔3h 30 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Stutton (Suffolk)

Located on the Shotley peninsular, the Alton Water Reservoir provides an easy walk around its water. A self contained circular route that needs little in the way of maps. Just keep the water on your right and keep walking! The mixed variety of landscapes of open meadow, woods and even the hills on the northern side of the reservoir provide a constant changing scenery throughout the walk. In all this is a great walk with some pleasing panoramas and ever changing views of the reservoir.

Walking Erwarton, Church End & River Orwell from Pin Mill

Walker
↔12.91 km ↗+40 m ↘-39 m ◔3h 50 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Chelmondiston (Suffolk)

This circular walk through the countryside of Suffolk includes a section alongside the River Orwell. The route takes you inland passing Erwarton Hall and the fine church at Church End to the banks of the Orwell from where you can see Felixstowe Docks. The walk then heads north along the Orwell following the Stout and Orwell Walk.

Walking Flatford Mill

Walker
Flatford Mill
↔13.97 km ↗+41 m ↘-40 m ◔4h 05 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Brantham (Suffolk)

A walk along the River Stour incorporating sections of the Stour Valley Path, the Essex Way and St Edmund's Way.
Flatford Mill is the idyllic English country scene encapsulated by John Constables renowned paintings including the instantly recognizable 'Haywain'. This circular route is an exceptional walk by all accounts and the perfect way to engross oneself in this landscape that sits on the Suffolk and Essex border.

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