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Start: North Walsham Market Place and church.(NR28 9BT) Grid ref. TG 283 302
(S/E) From North Walsham Market Place head Eastwards, turning left into Church Street just before the road meets a junction. Turn right into Hall Lane. After 700 yards, as the road heads towards a modern housing estate, take the left fork into Manor Road. Continue along this road for 500 yards.
(1) Take the first left into Anchor Lane. Little traffic uses these lanes and it makes for a pleasant stroll along it. Follow this country lane, passing over a hup back bridge by Bacton Wood Mill and then up the hill. Continue along this lane until there are woods on the left hand side. Keep ahead until a track and bridleway are encountered on the right, opposite Richardsons Saw Mill.
(2) Follow the track and take the first footpath on the left (300 yards). Follow this path which deteriorates into a smaller path. Keep going straight ahead and eventually this leads onto a broad track that ends at the Bacton Woods car park. A trail map is found on an information board by the car park and one can tailor ones walk around the woods with respect to time available.
(3) The route used in this instance is that defined by the yellow markers, turns right past the car park which leads back through the centre of the woods, past the pond and onto the Witton Heath area.
(4) Where the trail junctions, turn left and then keep bearing right to take a footpath down to a meadow overlooking the Dilham Canal. A footpath crosses the meadow to emerge opposite the Ebridge Mill.
(5) Turn right and walk past the mill and up the hill where a footpath on the left leads across the fields overlooking the river valley. This emerges onto a road where, turning right, the route follows the Weavers Way trail back into North Walsham which is country lanes virtually all the way.
(6) At the first junction turn left onto Kirtlings Beck Road. At the end of this road turn right onto Holgate Road, then left onto Happisburgh Road. This is a fairly busy road but there are pavements and there is only 200 yards until the trail leads off onto Field Lane on the left.
(7) Follow the road up and around a series of bends. A footpath on the right then leads into a North Walsham housing estate. Continue along the road through the estate and then right where it junctions with the main road (Yarmouth Road). Walk all the way back to the church and bus stop..(S/E)
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