Through the Garden of Suffolk

Start : Saxmundham Railway Station (IP17 1BW) Grid ref. TM 385 631

(S) From the Railway Station, The East Suffolk Line walk leads out of Saxmundham on the right hand side of the railway bridge as you head north out of the town. The path is clearly marked using the distinctive coloured waymarkers. Follow the railway line to the Sizewell branch junction.

(1) Cross the railway and the path leads across the field to a road. Turn right and walk up the road for a hundred yards.

(2) A path on the left leads through to the Kelsale road. Cross the road and the path continues a few yards to the right.

(3) Where the path branches turn right. This comes out at Redhouse Farm. Turn left on the road.

(4) Where the road bends to the left take the track on the right past Rubblestone farm. A footpath on the left cuts across a small field then heads down to Yoxford wood then up to another country lane.

(5) Turn right and follow the lane through to Fordley Hall, turn left up the hill.

(6) When the road bends round to the right there is a path that leads down the hill, across the railway and into Rookery Park. Cross the park and emerge on the A12 double bend in Yoxford.

(7) There is a footpath alongside the A12 all the way through to the Darsham junction on the right. If this is as far as you want to travel a return journey can be made from Darsham station which you pass on the A12.

(8) The Fox Inn is on the right at the first junction in the village. From the Fox Inn, head out South on the country lane for 900m down to the Westleton Road.

(9) Turn left and walk along here for 1.2 Km until there is a single track lane on the right.

(10) Take this until it reaches a farm on the left.

(11) A footpath on the right takes you through to Middleton. The Bell Inn is a hundred yards on the right as the road bends round.

(12) Take the path through the churchyard.

(13) Then, continue up the lane straight ahead to just past the playing field.

(14) Turn left and continue until it meets the road (B1125).

(15) Turn right and take the track down by Fenn Farm on the left. Eventually, this comes out on a lane in Theberton. Turn right till it junctions with the road.

(16) Turn right and this brings you out onto the main road with the church on the left and the Lion Inn opposite. From the Lion walk South-East for a few yards.

(17) A footpath on the right will take you round the back of the houses and across a field to a T-junction of roads. Continue straight on until you meet a farm on the left.

(18) A footpath takes you around the back of the farm and leads alongside the field. Continue across the fields in almost a straight line all the way through to geaters nurseries in Leiston.

(19) Turn right at the road and a path on the left crosses the railway and leads through to Waterloo Avenue.

(20) Turn left along B119, Leiston town centre is directly left up Waterloo Avenue. (E)

Start : Saxmundham Railway Station (IP17 1BW) Grid ref. TM 385 631

Transport: First Group 64 service connects Ipswich, Woodbridge, Wickham Market, Saxmundhamm, Leiston and Aldeburgh.
The two ends of the walk between Leiston and Saxmundham are linked by an hourly bus service. Darsham station is on the main A12 and if one wants to terminate the walk here then there is an hourly service back to Saxmundham.

Refreshments:

• The Fox Inn, Darsham
• The Bell, Middleton
• The Lion Inn, Theberton

Find more information and walks at Griffmonsters Great Walks here.

• The Devil's stone, Fordley
• Rookery Park, Yoxford
• Church of the Holy Trinity, Middleton
• Paul Richardson's Steel Sculptures, Middleton
• The Theberton Zeppelin

Find more information at Griffmonsters Great Walks here.