Today it was my turn again to lead a walk for Joyce's Weekly Walks. This time it was a circular walk from Snape Church.
This was the invite.
"Monday 2nd March. John will be leading a circular walk from Snape Church opposite the turning for Snape village on the A1094. We will meet to start walking at 10am. We will stop for coffee and toilets early in the walk at Snape Maltings. The route will also take in Iken, Tunstall Forest, Blaxhall and the small hamlet of Gromford. Please bring packed lunch for our stop in Tunstall Forest. The distance will be about 10-11 miles. "
This was our route.
Here are some of my photos.
Snape church was open so we were able to visit before the walk.
10 of us today and ready to go now.
The brick bus shelter just across the road was assembled from bricks from the old bridge, built in 1802 and replaced in 1959.
Then it was along the path beside the tidal mudflats of the River Alde.
We were heading upriver towards Snape Maltings.
The mudflats are a haven for wading birds.
We crossed the 'new' Snape bridge.
We had our drinkls break here including some delicious sausage rolls from the deli.
We took the boardwalk through the reeds past the concert hall.
More boardwalk here as we followed the coast path towards Iken.
I loved the feathery reeds with the sun behind.
They grass for turf here. You can see where some has been harvested.
There are lovely views from the path here across to
St. Botolph's Church, Iken on a promontory known as The Anchorage. We weren't going that far today.
Heading inland now we passed more turf fields.
What is this? A lot of piglets were roaming free on teh path in front of us.
We loved watching them. There must have been hundreds of them!
Some were fearless and came quite close.
We had to climb over the piglet fence at the end of the farm.
On now to Tunstall forest.
We had our lunch here. The ground was completely dry so were able to sit on it.
A change of landscape again as we walked along the edge of Blaxhall heath.
We recrossed teh River Alde here at Langham bridge.
And some lingering snowdrops.
And then we were back at the church.
Weren't we lucky with the weather, and weren't the piglets cute? Thank-you all for coming.
You can find more details of our 10.8 mile route here on OsMaps (or download a GPX file here).and more of my photos here on Flickr
Other related walks you can find on my blog include
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