Great Barton Church Walk

It was a lovely bright frosty morning, so I asked Dawn if she would like a walk before lunch. Yes she would... This was our route.

Here are some photos from along the way. It was still frosty out of the sun. The dogwood plants are looking good,

 

We passes the  Flight of Peace Sculpture, previously visited on a Bury St Edmunds Christmas Walk and the Tickety-boo walk.

 

We crossed the railway line. I don't think we'll be able to do that there much longer. There was what looked like a notice that it will be closed but it was hard to read.

You can see how thye sunny side of the street had melted but the shady side not.

We approached Great Barton Church.

We were impressed by the colourful kneelers, carvings at the ends of the pews and were puzzled what the angel in the ceiling had all had their heads chopped off. After we got home, I was interested to read the history of the church here, which says "[in the 16th and 17th centuries] saw the destruction of many parts of the church due to the Reformation and Puritan purge. At this time the majority of the angels in the roof were destroyed."

Outside we found this swathe of winter aconites.

as we sought out the war memorial...

In the hedgerow across from the church there were some lovely snowdrops.

This apple tree was still laden with fruit.

We took a slight detour to see these Shinham Bridge cottages...

...before returning home via the path alongside Rougham Airfield. Here we saw why Mount Road was closed and had to make a detour around the building site.

That was just the right length of walk to be finished in time to cook the lunch. You can seem more details of our route in my MapMyWalk log and more of my photos here on Flickr