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Start: Paradise Place Bus stop, Leiston. (IP16 4DT) Grid ref. TM 442 620
(S/E) From the bus stop, take the B1069 South-West out of Leiston towards Knodishall. After 880m, as the road curves around an S bend, there is a footpath on the right.
(1) Take this as it leads along the field boundary, under the power lines and into the back of Coldfair Green.
(2) At School Lane, turn left then right onto a piece of waste ground used as a car park.
(3) Keep to the right and head for a wooden footbridge.
(4) Cross the footbridge then keep to this footpath avoiding all other paths. This crosses Knodishall common then follows the field boundaries until one last open field where it emerges onto a track to Friston.
(5) Keep to the track, past Church Farm and continue out onto Church Lane.
(6) At the Church, take the lane left and follow the path down the side of the playing fields to cross B1121 straight ahead.
(7) Follow Mill road down the side of the Chequers pub.
(8) Opposite Friston Mill there is a footpath across the fields to Friston Hall. This is waymarked with the Sandlings markers.
(9) Follow the route past the Hall and the avenue.
(10) After 560m, at the first field boundary turn left and keep to the designated footpath. Continue over the first boundary (marked as the Belts).
(11) Then at the second boundary, turn left and follow the footpath back into Friston. This crosses the ancient Lime Avenue, an avenue which at one time led from Friston Hall down to the Alde Estuary.
(12) The footpath enters Friston on Mill Road. Return back into Friston.
(7) Cross B1121 again and take the footpath left back to the church.
(6) Opposite the church, on Church Lane there is a footpath that leads out across the fields. Take this, this is a broad, long and slightly winding path.
(13) After 1.2 Km, at Little Moor Farm, the path dog-legs left and right through the trees by the cottages before continuing along the field boundary.
(14) Cross directly over the B1119 and keep to the path until it enters a small wood. Half way through the wood there is path on the right to Knodishall Green.
(15) Take this, and turn right on the road, then left down the track to the cottage. Buxlow Church ruins is in the rear garden to this cottage and can be seen as you walk just beyond the building.
(16) Keep to the footpath beyond which leads back across the B1119 towards Knodishall.
(17) At the wood, turn left and follow the boundary of the trees around, cutting diagonally across the bottom field to a footbridge across the stream at the bottom. The footpath emerges onto the road.
(18) Turn right, then left just before the road goes over the stream. A footpath on the right leads over a small brick bridge and up to the road to Coldfair Green.
(19) Turn left and keep to the road for 1.1 Km to the village. The pub is on the right as the road junctions with the main road.
(20) Turn left and walk back towards Leiston on the B1069.
(21) At the end of the village take the lane on the right. This leads through to Aldringham with the Parrot pub at the end of the road. Opposite the pub is a footpath behind the houses.
(22) Turn left and keep to this until it emerges onto an open field which it crosses diagonally.
(23) Cross the road and follow the footpath around the back of the houses and across Hayling Meadow to emerge back on the B1069 in Leiston. (S/E)
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