Thetford Warren Walk

It was a lovely sunny day again, so Dawn and I went for a walk. My plan was to to do again the Bury St. Edmunds Ramblers walk at Thetford Warren that Chris Flood led in February last year.... Read all about it here. Well we did...almost. This was our route.

Here are a few photos.

We visited the ruins of the warren lodge first.

Then it was through a pleasant bit of heath to the road...

...and across into the forest.

But then came our first hurdle... our intended route was closed due to forestry work.

No worries - we just took a little detour. But then a bit more of a hurdle.

The last bit of path to get to the river and the footbridge was flooded. Time for a plan B. Instead of crossing the river and walking along the Little Ouse Path we retraced our steps to here...

...to take a path that went along the West side of the river. And very nice it was too... and with no mud!

In places we were able to get down to the river bank.

Here we could see some swans nesting.

We went to visit the bridge we would have come over...

...and then followed the route from the original walk back to our start, passing the bat hibernaculum....

...and following part of the drive for the exit to High Lodge.

One last bit of woods.

Then we were back at the car park.

A little over 6 1/2 miles, so it was a good morning walk under beautiful blue skies. Then it was home to cook the One-pan Duck with Savoy Cabbage for lunch.

You can see more details of our route here on MapMyWalk and more of my photos here on Flickr.