Tuesday 14 August 2018

Bury St. Edmunds Ramblers Walk - Glemsford

I did my first Ramblers walk for a while today - a circular walk from Glemsford.
 

This was, I think, our route... my tracker went onto pause just as we started and wasn't reawakened until we got to Boxsted church so I had to reconstruct the first part.


We had a good turn out today, filling the Glemsford Library Car Park. It was lovely walking weather, much cooler than recently and stayed dry throughout. Here are Jim and Wendy telling us about the walk before we set off.

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The countryside is quite rolling and we got some lovely panoramas.

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We even had to walk uphill.

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Passing some lovely horses, we approached Boxsted Church.

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Just before we got there we got a glimpse of Boxsted Hall, home, of the Weller-Poley family since 1392.

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We stopped in the churchyard and got to explore the fine old Holy Trinity church.


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I liked these windows.

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The church was full of links to the Weller-Poleys. You can see a nice set of photos and some of the history of the church here. It was only talking to Ron later that I found I had missed out on the mystery of the statue in the church of Sir John Weller-Poley... the golden frog earring.


We carried on westwards to our drinks stop near Fenstead End.

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I liked this small stand of trees on the skyline as we headed south.

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From here it was downhill back to Glemsford. 


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A great morning's walk. Thanks Jim and Wendy! You can see more of my photos on here on Flickr.

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