Horstead to Heggatt

Start: Recruiting Sergeant pub, Horstead. (NR12 7EE) Grid ref. TG 264 196

(S/E) From the Recruiting Sergeant pub, cross the road and proceed left down Mill Road, a country lane with the river on the left-hand side.

(1) Horstead Mill is soon encountered where there are information boards both within the ruins and on the river bank. Continue along Mill Road as it veers to the right and up a hill.

(2) At the top, as the road straightens, there is a track on the left with a public footpath sign. Take this and follow this through a double bend and down to a point where it turns sharp left into a private driveway with a post box on the left. At this point, a footpath leads off to the right through the woodland. Follow this for 600 yards to where it meets another track at a T-junction. Turn right onto this and follow the track through the private dwellings of Heggatt.

(3) At the T-junction turn right and follow the road past Heggatt Hall on the left, continuing all the way back down to where the route first took the track off the road. Continue down the hill to Horstead Mill.

(1) Turn right and walk along the path through the ruins, turning sharp left at the end. Keep straight ahead to the locks. Walk over the walkway and keep going straight ahead. The footpath soon brings one out onto the main road by the side of the bridge.

(4) Cross the road and turn left, use the footbridge to return to the start of the walk.(S/E)

Start: Recruiting Sergeant pub, Horstead. (NR12 7EE) Grid ref. TG 264 196

Refreshments :
Recruiting Sergeant, Horstead

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