Most of the walks on the blog recently have been longer walks, but here's a shorter one. This morning we went out to for a walk to enjoy the spring weather before lunch.
I decided to a do a variant on a favourite walk with a circular route from
Kersey Mill via Kersey Vale, William's Green, Kersey Tye and Kersey. It is about a year since I last walked here. This was our route, going clockwise.
As you can see I missed a path at one point and we had to back track a bit, but that didn't matter - the waymark post was hidden by the vegetation and the path over the field was not obvious,
Here are a few photos.
We parked a Kersey Mill.
For much of the walk we could see the prominent Kersey Church.
The buddha with the sign at Noaks Tye farm always raises a smile.
Some lovely views and green fields.
We didn't follow this well-defined path today.
....and stitchwort flowers (aka sailors' buttons)
This house has splendid views.
Here we were on the Wool Towns Walk path that I had walked as the Challenge Walk in the 2023 Suffolk Walking Festival. Incidentally, there will be no Suffolk Walking Festival this year.
Descending to Kersey Vale, we came across a group of clay-pigeon shooters having a drink or two and some bacon sandwiches.
This familiar house at the bottom of the lane used to be painted yellow.
This was the waymarker I missed...
...and the path across the field.
We liked this path lined by hedges on each side.
Here we disturbed a roosting flock of yellowhammers. They settled on the ground for a moment before flying off again, where I managed to capture this one on camera.
Near Kersey Tye we passed this oak tree planted to commemorate the coronation of George VI in 1937.
Here we found a peacock....
...and several more in the garden behind the house.
We enjoyed the display of daffodils here. They will not be in flower for much longer.
These tulips were pretty too.
We saw some sheep with lambs.
Through the hole in the hedge here...
..and we came to a lone calf.
Tge spring sunshine has brought plenty of butterflies out.
We were on a path I'd not tried before. Here we got a view towards part of Kersey village.
We admired this white horse from a distance.
Forget-me-nots are another flower now in bloom.
Dawn couldn't remember ever visiting it, but I'm sure she must have.
At the side on the chancel is a small section of the church's medieval rood screen. It was recovered
from a local farm and restored. The panels show saints and kings, one of
the Kings (last on the right) being
Edmund the Martyr, shown holding an arrow.
We walked through the village.
Looping around to the north back towards Kersey Mill, we saw this hawk.
There was plenty of birdsong along this path.
Yes it's that church again.
We passed Rushes farm and the new dwelling there.
We had walked this path earlier, but this time, after turning left we kept on to the side of the stream back to Kersey Mill instead of crossing the bridge.
A lovely walk, and we followed it up with lunch at the Miller's Kitchen before heading for home.
You can find more details of our 7.6 mile route
here on MapMyWalk (or download a GPX file
here).
Related walks you can find on my blog include:
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