Walking for health around The Framinghams

Walking for Health The Framinghams

REVIEWED BY DOUGIE DINGWALL

VOLUNTEER CO-ORDINATOR AT CENTRAL NORFOLK WALKING FOR HEALTH

Route by Rhona Shuttleworth Route checked and photography by Dougie Dingwall

Starting Point: St Andrews Church, The Street, Framingham Pigot NR14 7QH Grid Reference: OS Map 237/ OL 40: TG 27782 03614 Walk Length (Miles / Km): 4.45 miles / 7.2 km

Directions

01.

Keeping the Church on your left, follow the shingle track towards a cottage. If the Church looks familiar outside, Drone footage of it appeared in Bridget Jones’s Baby. Veer left before the cottage, taking the track at the wooden finger post. Follow the footpath around the trees on the right into a wood. 02. At the end of the woodland path turn right into Gull Lane. After 50 metres, turn left at the wooden finger post, cross the wooden planks over a ditch and walk up the path with the hedge on your left. At the end of the path turn left onto Yelverton Road. Walk past the first right of way to Aldis Farm Shop & Café. Just past the Water Tower, turn right at the finger post along a drive towards a house called The Driftway.

03. Follow this drive to the big houses and then veer right and then left to a gate. The vehicle track then becomes a footpath between hedges. When the footpath reaches the kissing gate on the left of the path, continue straight on in the same direction until you reach Wheel Road. Turn right and continue past Reeder’s Lane on the left and past the speed signs.

04. Just after the bend in the road, after ‘The New House’ and the white railings, take the public footpath on the left. Continue up this track where there is a field junction, bear right just before the wooden post and immediately turn right in the next field to walk on the well-trodden path along the field edge.

05. Near the end of the field turn right, go across two blank bridges and continue on a path straight across the field until you reach another plank bridge and a kissing gate. Go across the field to a second kissing gate and turn right down a wooded path. The modern church will be on your left.

06. Leave the public right of way at the church entrance and continue straight onto Upgate Road, past White House Gardens on the right to the next junction and turn right. This is also called Upgate, but becomes Hall Road after passing Burgate Lane on the right. Walk past Fallowfield on the left and turn left into Long Road, then cross the road to the footpath on the left.

07. Continue past St Anne’s Road, staying on Long Road. Take the first right turn into Spur Lane, which is beside the only house on the right. At the T-junction turn right into Pigot Lane. Take the next right into The Street at the Framingham Pigot village sign. Walk down The Street back to St Andrew’s Church on the right.