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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 6.49 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 1h 50 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 5 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 5 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 10 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 1 m
  • ⚐
    District: Ipswich 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 52.053272° / E 1.139468°
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Description

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

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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. 5 m - Start on Reavell Place
  2. 2 : km 0.01 - alt. 5 m - Turn left
  3. 3 : km 0.01 - alt. 5 m - Keep right
  4. 4 : km 0.06 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  5. 5 : km 0.07 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  6. 6 : km 0.19 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  7. 7 : km 0.21 - alt. 4 m - Keep left
  8. 8 : km 0.22 - alt. 4 m - Turn sharp left onto West End Road
  9. 9 : km 0.95 - alt. 4 m - Keep left onto West End Road
  10. 10 : km 0.98 - alt. 4 m - Turn sharp right
  11. 11 : km 1 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  12. 12 : km 1.01 - alt. 5 m - Turn slight right
  13. 13 : km 1.14 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  14. 14 : km 1.14 - alt. 4 m - Turn right onto Handford Road
  15. 15 : km 1.73 - alt. 6 m - Turn right onto Portman Road
  16. 16 : km 1.87 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto Great Gipping Street
  17. 17 : km 1.97 - alt. 3 m - Keep left
  18. 18 : km 2.01 - alt. 5 m - Turn right
  19. 19 : km 2.2 - alt. 3 m - Turn left
  20. 20 : km 2.21 - alt. 3 m - Turn right onto Civic Drive
  21. 21 : km 2.22 - alt. 3 m - Turn sharp right
  22. 22 : km 2.24 - alt. 3 m - Turn right
  23. 23 : km 2.26 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  24. 24 : km 2.28 - alt. 4 m - Keep left
  25. 25 : km 2.35 - alt. 5 m - Keep right
  26. 26 : km 2.37 - alt. 5 m - Turn left onto Princes Street
  27. 27 : km 2.39 - alt. 6 m - Turn right onto Princes Street
  28. 28 : km 2.5 - alt. 8 m - Keep left onto Princes Street
  29. 29 : km 2.54 - alt. 8 m - Turn sharp right
  30. 30 : km 2.57 - alt. 8 m - Turn slight left onto Buttermarket
  31. 31 : km 2.79 - alt. 9 m - Turn left onto Upper Brook Street
  32. 32 : km 2.91 - alt. 7 m - Turn left onto Tacket Street
  33. 33 : km 3.14 - alt. 7 m - Turn right onto Fore Street
  34. 34 : km 3.3 - alt. 6 m - Keep right
  35. 35 : km 3.39 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  36. 36 : km 3.39 - alt. 4 m - Turn sharp left
  37. 37 : km 3.4 - alt. 4 m - Turn slight right
  38. 38 : km 3.4 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  39. 39 : km 3.41 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  40. 40 : km 3.44 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto Wherry Lane
  41. 41 : km 3.49 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto Wherry Quay
  42. 42 : km 3.89 - alt. 3 m - Keep right
  43. 43 : km 4.58 - alt. 3 m - Keep left
  44. 44 : km 5.36 - alt. 2 m - Turn left onto Foundry Lane
  45. 45 : km 5.37 - alt. 1 m - Turn right onto St Peter's Dock
  46. 46 : km 5.47 - alt. 3 m - Turn right onto A137
  47. 47 : km 5.52 - alt. 3 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Grafton Way
  48. 48 : km 5.78 - alt. 3 m - Keep left
  49. 49 : km 5.86 - alt. 3 m - Turn slight left onto Commercial Road
  50. 50 : km 6.09 - alt. 4 m - Keep left onto West End Road
  51. 51 : km 6.14 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  52. 52 : km 6.15 - alt. 3 m - Turn right
  53. 53 : km 6.33 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  54. 54 : km 6.45 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  55. 55 : km 6.46 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  56. S/E : km 6.49 - alt. 5 m

Useful Information

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Other walks in the area

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 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 Foxhall and Brookhill Wood

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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 Erwarton, Church End & River Orwell from Pin Mill

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↔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 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 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 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 The Sandlings - Martlesham to Rushmere Heath

Walker
The Sandlings - Martlesham to Rushmere Heath
↔7.74 km ↗+13 m ↘-9 m ◔2h 15 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Martlesham (Suffolk)

A walk across heathland from Martlesham to Rushmere Heath on the eastern fringes of Ipswich
Like most modern towns, Ipswich is suffering from a seemingly endless amount of urban sprawl that envelops the traditional villages that once surrounded it. However, this walk follows heathland that is hidden behind the housing estates all the way from Martlesham through to Rushmere Heath and Ipswich Hospital.

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