18 Mile Trail

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 28.99 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 8h 30 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 73 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 83 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 47 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 0 m
  • ⚐
    District: Ipswich 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 52.043851° / E 1.116014°
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Description

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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/E : km 0 - alt. 35 m - Start on Hawthorn Drive
  2. 2 : km 0.02 - alt. 36 m - Turn right onto Hawthorn Drive
  3. 3 : km 0.4 - alt. 39 m - Turn right onto Gannet Road
  4. 4 : km 0.53 - alt. 42 m - Turn left onto Sheldrake Drive
  5. 5 : km 0.91 - alt. 45 m - Turn slight right onto Sheldrake Drive
  6. 6 : km 0.98 - alt. 45 m - Turn left onto Mallard Way
  7. 7 : km 1.17 - alt. 44 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Hawthorn Drive
  8. 8 : km 1.67 - alt. 41 m - Turn right onto Kingfisher Avenue
  9. 9 : km 2.03 - alt. 42 m - Turn right onto Robin Drive
  10. 10 : km 2.3 - alt. 37 m - Turn left
  11. 11 : km 3.26 - alt. 40 m - Turn left onto Scrivener Drive
  12. 12 : km 3.31 - alt. 40 m - Keep right onto Scrivener Drive
  13. 13 : km 3.54 - alt. 40 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Shepherd Drive
  14. 14 : km 3.57 - alt. 40 m - Turn sharp right
  15. 15 : km 4.01 - alt. 41 m - Turn left onto Cottingham Road
  16. 16 : km 4.21 - alt. 37 m - Turn slight right onto Cottingham Road
  17. 17 : km 4.54 - alt. 19 m - Keep right
  18. 18 : km 4.79 - alt. 6 m - Turn right
  19. 19 : km 4.83 - alt. 6 m - Turn slight right
  20. 20 : km 6.19 - alt. 41 m - Turn slight left onto Buck's Horns Lane
  21. 21 : km 6.31 - alt. 44 m - Turn right
  22. 22 : km 8.98 - alt. 40 m - Turn sharp right
  23. 23 : km 9.82 - alt. 41 m - Keep left onto Pond Hall Lane
  24. 24 : km 10.31 - alt. 41 m - Turn slight right onto Pond Hall Lane
  25. 25 : km 11.07 - alt. 40 m - Turn left onto Potash Lane
  26. 26 : km 11.72 - alt. 39 m - Turn left onto Church Road
  27. 27 : km 12.59 - alt. 35 m - Turn sharp right
  28. 28 : km 13.74 - alt. 35 m - Turn left onto A137
  29. 29 : km 13.76 - alt. 35 m - Turn right
  30. 30 : km 13.94 - alt. 27 m - Turn right
  31. 31 : km 14.96 - alt. 26 m - Turn left
  32. 32 : km 15.37 - alt. 29 m - Turn left onto Lemons Hill
  33. 33 : km 15.69 - alt. 25 m - Turn sharp right
  34. 34 : km 16.12 - alt. 25 m - Turn right
  35. 35 : km 16.24 - alt. 34 m - Turn slight left
  36. 36 : km 16.29 - alt. 35 m - Turn right onto Coxhall Lane
  37. 37 : km 17.02 - alt. 27 m - Turn left
  38. 38 : km 18.32 - alt. 35 m - Turn right
  39. 39 : km 19.77 - alt. 37 m - Turn left
  40. 40 : km 20.18 - alt. 35 m - Keep left
  41. 41 : km 20.3 - alt. 36 m - Turn left
  42. 42 : km 21.08 - alt. 3 m - Turn slight left onto B1456
  43. 43 : km 21.09 - alt. 3 m - Turn left
  44. 44 : km 21.59 - alt. 5 m - Keep right
  45. 45 : km 22.39 - alt. 16 m - Turn slight right
  46. 46 : km 23.11 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto The Strand
  47. 47 : km 23.23 - alt. 4 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto A137
  48. 48 : km 23.27 - alt. 3 m - Turn slight left onto Wherstead Road, A137
  49. 49 : km 23.42 - alt. 4 m - Keep right
  50. 50 : km 24.65 - alt. 2 m - Turn slight right onto Bobbits Lane
  51. 51 : km 24.85 - alt. 2 m - Turn left
  52. 52 : km 25.66 - alt. 17 m - Keep left
  53. 53 : km 25.85 - alt. 20 m - Turn slight left
  54. 54 : km 25.96 - alt. 15 m - Turn right onto Grove Hill
  55. 55 : km 25.97 - alt. 14 m - Turn left
  56. 56 : km 26.05 - alt. 9 m - Turn left
  57. 57 : km 26.85 - alt. 8 m - Turn sharp right
  58. 58 : km 27 - alt. 6 m - Turn right
  59. 59 : km 27.04 - alt. 6 m - Turn left
  60. 60 : km 27.07 - alt. 8 m - Turn right
  61. 61 : km 28.07 - alt. 4 m - Turn left onto Ellenbrook Road
  62. 62 : km 28.38 - alt. 13 m - Keep right
  63. 63 : km 28.42 - alt. 13 m - Turn slight right onto Bridgwater Road
  64. S/E : km 28.99 - alt. 34 m

Useful Information

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Walking Into the Valley of Wherstead

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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

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↔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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