Ramblers Hoxne Walk

Today's walk was led by Jim and Wendy starting from the Village Hall in the historic village of Hoxne. This was the listing.

Actually we didn't go to Billingford and Oakley at all. That planned route was too waterlogged, so Jim and Wendy had to come up with an alternative, which took us South of Hoxne instead. This was our route.

I found, when I looked it up later, that the route was based on one of the Discover Suffolk walks Treasured Suffolk Hoxne. The leaflet is full of information about what is to be seen along the way. Hoxne is famous for its connection with St. Edmund - it was here that he was captured by the Dane's and then killed. You can read more about St. Edmund here.

Here are a few of my photos.

 The village hall has a stone marking the link to St. Edmund...

...and a picture of him hiding under Goldbrook Bridge.

Here are Jim and Wendy briefing us about the walk.

There are still some snowdrops around.

We saw plenty of daffodils too.

We wondered what this mysterious building is. It turns out it is a disused Brickworks kiln. Read all about it here.

We did get a bit strung out at times. Shortly after climbing up from the river, we turned right onto a rather muddy path...

...and then had an unscheduled stop.

Half the group had missed the path we turned onto and continued straight on. "It's all right to lose 10%, but I've lost 50% of my walkers", said Jim as we waited in vain for the rest to appear. We eventually figured out what had happened and Jim got Wendy to lead the rest back to us along the road they had reached a little further up from the rest of us.

We made sure everyone saw us turn left off the road here.

Jim watching out for the other walkers from a bridge we were to cross.

Our break was at St. John the Baptist church at Denham

We passed St. Edmunds Primary School, proudly flying a St. Edmunds Flag.

This used to be a village store and service station.

We passed this in somebody's garden.

We didn't divert to it, but we went past the St. Edmunds Cross, marking the site of the oak tree to which the King was tied and then shot full of arrows.

Then it was back through the village and over Goldbrook bridge again to the Village Hall .

Thanks Jim and Wendy for a great walk.

You can see more details of our route here on MapMyWalk and more of my photos here on Flickr. For how to reuse walks from my blog, read my Reusing My Walks page.