LOCAL WALKS
Directions
Walking for Health Swardeston and Gowthorpe Manor REVIEWED BY DOUGIE DINGWALL VOLUNTEER CO-ORDINATOR AT CENTRAL NORFOLK WALKING FOR HEALTH Route by Michael Lambert Route checked and photography by Dougie Dingwall
01. Leave car park, turn left, pass duck pond, turn right into Short Lane to bottom of hill. Turn right onto path alongside cricket pitch, turn right behind Village Hall. Keeping Village Hall to your right, turn left onto road. Walk 50m, turn right at track, then immediately left onto a stone covered path. 02. When the path forks, keep right at the house. Go left through churchyard to left of church, exit through gate and go straight ahead, turn left at war memorial into lane. At crossroads, cross main road into Wood Lane, turn right at the bottom and then onto permissive path on left (opposite No.1). 03. Walk along wide grass edge to the field, keeping the hedge on the left. Turn left at the road, and turn right onto a bridleway after a few metres (sign). Woods to the side. At the end of the wood (beautiful bluebells in spring) turn left at T-junction of tracks. Continue on, then bear left. 04. After abut 200m go under power lines, turn left at marker in hedge (opposite local power line) and follow track, round first pylon, then under second to reach corner of the field, keeping the hedge to your left. Leave the field by gap in hedge
at corner by pylon (can be nettles here). Previously two stiles here, one at each end of field. 05 Walk straight on, keeping hedge to your left until you reach a large barn. Footpath goes to right of the barn, with a new hedge between path and barn. Turn right at road. Path is particularly muddy just before you reach the barn.
Starting Point: Swardeston Village Hall, High Common, Swardeston Common, Norwich, NR14 8DL Grid Reference: Map 237: TG200026 Walk Length (Miles / Km): 3.3 / 5
06. Continue on to crossroads with B road, cross over to Short Lane and follow lane around to the left. At the crossroads signposted The Common turn right, then immediately left up a stony track. This becomes a grassy path which can be muddy in wet weather. Follow this path to reach Swardeston common. Take the second path to the left, after a large tree, to reach the road. Cross the road and walk ahead, with the duck pond on your right, to the village hall. 17
