Walking for health around Wymondham & Silfield

Walking for Health

Wymondham and Silfied

REVIEWED BY DOUGIE DINGWALL

VOLUNTEER CO-ORDINATOR AT CENTRAL NORFOLK WALKING FOR HEALTH

Route by Ruth Burn/Sarah Lidington Route checked and photography by Dougie Dingwall

Starting Point: Wymondham Station Pay & Display Car Park, Cemetery Lane, Wymondham NR18 0JX

Grid Reference: Map 237: TG112011 Walk Length (Miles / Km): 4.4 / 7.08

Directions

01. Turn left out of the car park and walk along Cemetery Lane and Station Approach. Cross Station Road with care and walk along The Lizard (metalled road) with the Railway Pub to your right. Continue along this road until the end, then through the gate (fingerpost here) into the grassed area. Keeping the hedge on your right, walk through The Lizard (it can be very wet away from the hedge). 02. Keep right to pass through some metal bars and enter a wooded area (Lizard Lane) with a well defined footpath. Follow this through the trees and exit to the left of a wooden gate onto a metalled path. Turn left and walk over the A11 on a pedestrian bridge.

03. On reaching a small parking area, turn left onto a footpath through a kissing gate, then left through another kissing gate into Silfield Nature reserve. Walk past a pond on the left and continue with the hedge on your right to leave the reserve, with a wooden fence on your left, though a hedged area on your right.

04. Walk ahead through a grassed area to rejoin the main footpath (marker post here) and continue ahead on a field edge path with a hedge on your right. Where footpaths divide, continue ahead to walk across a field on a well worn path, then continue, initially with a hedge on your right, and keeping right to follow the field edge.

05. On reaching Burnthouse Lane (finger post), turn left and walk to the Y-junction, passing a windmill on your right. Turn right into Compass Road and walk to the end. At the T-junction, turn right into Silfield Street. Walk almost to the road junction, but turn right onto a driveway with a faint footpath marker on a telegraph post. Keep on the right hand driveway, and then left to walk on the path to the left of the house, past an old telephone box. Pass through a gap in the hedge and walk on a grassy path between a hedge and wooden fence.

06. Exit through a wooden gate to walk on a grassy path across a field. Keep right at the trees and walk ahead with trees on your left and a hedge on your right, stepping over an ivy covered log. Continue along the field edge. Turn right at the hedge (finger post) and walk between wooden fencing (marker) to reach the parking area (arrow at entrance).

07. Turn sharp left and cross the A11. Walk forward on Rightup Lane, passing some housing on your left. Turn right down a rough track, and walk back to The Lizard. Turn left on the metalled road and continue to Station Road. Cross Station Road with care and continue up Station Approach and Cemetery Lane to reach the Car Park.

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