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Start : Leiston town centre at the junction with the church. Grid ref. TM 443 626
(S/E) Leave Leiston town centre cross roads South via Haylings Road. After 210m, turn right at Victory Road, following the park on the right. The end of the road leads to a footpath through to the church.
(1) Walk through the church grounds and out onto Waterloo Avenue, turn left and follow the road out of town. There is a path behind the hedgerow beyond the cemetery and this leads through to Highbury Cottages. Ignore the first footpath on the left beyond the cottages but take the second path.
(2) At the road this leads out on, continue straight ahead, leading onto another footpath as the road bends to the left. This emerges onto the main Saxmundham Road. Turn left and walk the road up to the footpath on the right. There are footpath signs but a number of these have been torn down and lie on the ground.
(3) Head for the small copse of trees in the centre of the field and follow the eastern side of the copse. At the end, continue onwards, bearing around to the left heading towards the cottages on the far side of the field. This footpath emerges at the ruins of Buxlow Church which sit in the garden of one of the cottages. Follow the track between the houses down onto the lane.
(4) Turn right and follow the lane. This will pass through a double bend then across the railway and meet with Clayhill Road. Continue onwards. The junction with a road on the right is the old Leiston to Kelsale Road. This originally carried straight ahead to the left of the cottage opposite, but the present road has been realigned and another junction further up on the left is the continuation of the old road.
Keep to the road, ignoring both the right and then left turns as mentioned. The road will dip down to pass over a stream and the rise again to meet a cross roads. To the right is the ancient track known as Harrow Lane.
(5) Take this back towards Leiston. This area was once covered with Buxlow Forest. Further along, one will see old WWII buildings, one completely masked in vegetation, and the old runway. Towards the end of the lane, on the left is a memorial to the airfield and behind this the Cakes and Ales Camping and caravan site.
(6) At the junction go straight ahead keeping Buckles Wood to the right and follow the road as it curves around to the South-East. The location of the Harrow is thought to have been on the right with the area known as Higbones to the left. The procession Rayles is thought to have been somewhere behind the present day nurseries.
(7) Keep to the road. Go past Geater Nurseries and a footpath just beyond will enable access to the fields beyond. Emerge onto the field and on the left, at the far field boundary is where the gallows are thought to have been located. Return back down the footpath.
(7) Continue on the road until it meets Abbey Road.
(8) Turn right and follow the road back into the town. (S/E)
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