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Start: Minden Drive Bus stop along B1122, Leiston. Grid ref. TM 446 620
(S/E) From the bus stop walk South along Adeburgh Road (B1122) and turn left to head down Red House Lane toward the Leisure Centre.
(1) After 800 m or so, continue into the lane at the end until it crosses the former railway by a farm cottage. Proceed straight ahead across the fields toward Halfway Cottage.
(2) Turn left (North) to walk down the side of the cottage and onto the road. Turn right and keep walking down 1.3 Km to Sizewell.
(3) Turn left past Sizell.
(4) The Suffolk Coast Path keeps to the dunes past the Power Station and alongside Minsmere Bird Reserve.
(5) After 4.7 Km, at the north end of Minsmere follow the path up to the top of the cliffs and the Coastguard Cottages. The Suffolk Coast Path heads across the Heath in a diagonal fashion here but an alternative route is to pass past the front of the coastguard Cottages and a path leads across the cliff-tops.
After a short distance there is a lookout with a telescope and it is worth while stopping off and surveying the sea for any seals or dolphins.
Continue on the cliff-top path until it reaches the road at the entrance to Dunwich Heath.
(6) Cross the road and bear right and follow the path adjacent to the road for 840m. There is a new section of path here that runs alongside the road through.
(7) Once it meets the path heading across the heath, turn right, cross the road and head into the woods. This eventually comes out on the Dunwich Road.
(8) Turn right and where the road bends sharply left continue straight ahead down past the cottages.
(9) After a bungalow on the left a path leads through Greyfriars Wood to Greyfriars ruins. Walk around the edge following the footpath which comes out in Dunwich.
(10) Head along the road straight past the Ship, the museum and the Church until you come to a track on the right with the Suffolk Coast Path marker.
(11) Take this and keep to the track through the woods. Eventually this will lead out onto the marshes, it goes around a small hill on the marsh and up onto the defences. Turn left and keep going until it reaches the ruins of an old windmill. A series of steps leads down onto a boardwalk alongside the river.
(12) Keep along this until there is a bridge across the river.
(13) Take this right and follow the path up onto the shingle coastal defence.
(14) Turn left and follow the waymarkers towards the River Blyth where it heads into Walberswick. The Ferry is easily found on the riverside.
(15) On the Southwold side, turn right and walk alongside the river for a hundred yards and there is a footpath that runs down the back of the campsite and into Southwold. Return along Ferry Road or the beach to the Ferry and Walberswick.
(16) After recrossing with the Ferry, here head to the beach.
(17) Turn left and walk through for 5 Km to Dunwich and take the road through town.
(10) Walk past the Ship and the Museum. Just beyond the church where the road junctions there is a footpath on the left marked with a Sandlings waymarker.
(18) Take this and keep walking until there are some buildings on the right and the footpath is crossed by another.
(19) Turn left and follow this down to the road, cross the road and continue along the footpath.
(20) Where the footpath meets the Suffolk Coast Path which continues ahead, turn right to cross the northern side of Dunwich Heath.
(21) Keep straight ahead when it crosses a road into Minsmere and it ends on the road into Eastbridge.
(22) Keep to this road, through Eastbridge and down to the main road into Leiston.
(23) Turn left and follow the road back to Leiston. There is a pavement on the right hand side just past the Abbey. (S/E)
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