Coney Weston Walk

Dawn had a "disaggregated" PD Day at school today, which meant she didn't have to go to school (although she did later) so we went on a morning walk with the aim of having a pub lunch afterwards.

Well that was the plan anyway! I thought we'd try some paths I hadn't walked before so we did a walk from Coney Weston based on this Discover Suffolk leaflet. We did the Red walk from the leaflet, starting and finishing at Coney Weston Village Hall.

This was our route.

Here are a few of my photos.

Our starting point, the Village Hall, where we were the only car in the car park.

The grand gateway to the Grade II listed Coney Weston Hall.

The house is early 19th Century.

At the crossroads we came to this memorial. As the leaflet says, "The Memorial was dedicated in 1986 to the USAAF 388th Bombardment Group based at Knettishall airfield during World War ll. The two wings, inscribed with the names of those who gave their lives, were added in 2012 when a memorial  service was held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the 388th group at the base. 

Walking along Hollow Lane we saw some hares or large rabbits in this field, but my phone camera isn't good enough to get a good picture.

We could also see St Mary's Church on the road to Weston Fen, well out of the village, but it wan't on our route.

At this crossroads at the western end of Market Weston, we turned onto the Weston Bury Lane track.

We saw some deer in the fields, but again it was hard to photograph them with my phone camera.

On the outskirts of Barningham we came across these impressive thistle heads.

In Barningham we stopped to visit St. Andrew's Church.

It contains a chancel which dates from 1440 with a screen fitted with 17th century gates; only two or three churches in Suffolk have central chancel gates.

We admired the bench ends, most of which are animals along with a few mythical creatures. 

Leaving the churchyard though this kissing gate we were amused to see it had come from Frome. Don't they make gates in Suffolk?

Dawn liked the golfing weathervane.

Then it was back across the fields to our starting point.

And so to lunch. I had determined that, of the pubs in the area, only The Swan Inn in Coney Weston was open on Monday lunchtimes.

The had an impressive OS map on the wall, specially created to place the pub at the centre...

...but no food. We tried The Victoria in Thurston on our way home but they had no food today either as they were changing over their kitchen from gas to electricity today. So it was home for leftovers for lunch.

And then Dawn went into school to put this on the wall.

I hope the pupils appreciate it!

You can see more details of our route here on MapMyWalk.