Today we did a new walk from Coddenham in an interesting walk of 3 loops away from and back towards the village in different directions.
This was the invite from Joyce.
"Tuesday April 22nd a new bluebell walk from Coddenham. You can park at Coddenham Centre (sometimes it is open for toilets), Mary Day Close IP6 9SR. What3Words vintages.plants.clues
If you would like a drink at Coddenham Community Shop before the walk, then do make your way there. Otherwise we will meet at the Community Shop for a 10.30am to start. It is a 10 mile circular walk with a short portion on an awful fast road. This will need a single file. Please bring a packed lunch as lunch will be on the grass. The area is just beautiful and we visit Hemingstone and Shrubland Park too."
This was our route today.
Here are a few of my photos. We met at the Community shop as planned (see photo at the top of the post) as planned and started by heading for the church.
This wisteria is looking good.
We saved visiting the church until the end of he walk.
Soon we were out in the countryside navigating the way past a herd of cows.
There are several impressive looking properties around here. This is
Coddenham House. which dates from c 1770.
We walked through fields with a copiousness of cowslips.
I liked the sinuous furrows in this field.
We stopped for a drinks... and cake break. It was Gill's birthday and Gary had carried some cake for us to enjoy to celebrate the birthday. Yum!
We were walking through the Old Hall estate and came to "The Tower". I loved the reflection here.
We didn't find any adders to disturb today.
We got a glimpse of another tower on the Shrublands estate here....
But what was this by the trees? A herd of deer!
There are some extraordinary trees on the estate.
We didn't get to see Shrubland Hall today, but we did see it from
this walk in 2022.
We saw some goats here separated from the sheep.
Somehow we managed to walk round Hemingstone church without visiting it.
We passed by
Retreat East and were given a tour of the barn.
Work was being done on the power lines here,
We had our lunch on the grass shortly afterwards.
I lagged behind here photographing the vista and looking behind caught these deer, which I think everyone else missed.
There they are ahead of me.
The clouds added to the expanse of the landscape.
Now were near Hemingstone church....
..and the pretty Willow Cottage.
I told you the skies were impressive.
Not far to go now. We came to Broom Hill.
We loved the ceiling with its angels. As Simon Knott says "T
he internal glory of St Mary is undoubtedly the roof. It is very late medieval, probably 15th century, but Mortlock thought it might be 16th century. Bishopp restored it. It is an unstained double hammerbeam roof, not quite so steeply pitched as is common in Suffolk. Angels gaze down from the gloom. ".
We liked the stained glass windows too.
More oxlips in the churchyard, but Rachel and I had been left behind and I didn't have time to show her.
We guessed the way to go and found some more great bluebells.
At the community centre we found everyone else.
A beautiful spring day with lots for great views and spring flowers, especially the bluebells at the end. Thank-you Joyce for leading us round, Gill and Gary for the cake and everyone else for the additional company.
You can find more details of our 10 mile walk here on MapMyWalk (or download a GPX file here) and more of my photos here on Flickr.
Another related walk you can find on my blog is this one..
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