Suffolk and Norfolk
- Thread starter Oldhippy
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All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
HobbesOnTour
Guru
- Location
- España
Enjoy your adventure!
And may I suggest
Bon voyage
And may I suggest
All bikes loaded to the gills benefit from a wave - not just the feckers on shiny new bikes
Bon voyage
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
Enjoy your adventure!
And may I suggest
All bikes loaded to the gills benefit from a wave - not just the feckers on shiny new bikes
Bon voyage
I never saw you as the envious type, @HobbesOnTour
I'm sufficiently envious of @Oldhippy 's forthcoming tour to have put dates in the diary for September to revisit scenes from my childhood in the Waveney Valley.
HobbesOnTour
Guru
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- España
We all have our moments of weaknessI never saw you as the envious type, @HobbesOnTour
Always good to have something in the diary.
A Buen Viaje to you!
SuffolkBlue
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Framlingham, Suffolk
Sounds great. Don't let anyone tell you that Suffolk and Norfolk are flat!! Ok, so there are no major climbs but it "undulates" a lot and it always seems to be windy here!! Road surfaces are currently quite poor but that seems to be the same everywhere. It's actually the less used back roads that are in better condition.
I'm sure you've got a brilliant route planned out but if you would like some tips on places of interest to visit/cafe stops then drop me a PM and I'll see what I can come up with. I'm located in North/Mid Suffolk but my family are originally from Norwich (I'm the only Suffolk born in the family)!
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Good luck. Following the Rebellion Way loosely is definitely best, especially between Lynn and Ringstead where it boringly follows NCN1, possibly because its creators were unfamiliar with the permissive routes through the royal parishes. If you'd like a detour with more off-road, but not the full swamp Peddars Way treatment, I humbly suggest https://cycle.travel/map/journey/372214 as a pick-and-mix. There's a couple of bits where it uses tracks (mostly farm vehicle tracks) that are officially footpaths that I've ridden cautiously a few times and no-one has ever complained (usually you see no-one on them, they're not like the coast path boardwalk!) and a couple of gates at Reffley Woods which I really ought to check have been widened to allow bikes. Some of those I couldn't get cycle.travel to follow the exact route because OpenStreetMap doesn't quite have the right access settings, so the track takes a straight line.
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
Places that come to my mind are Burgh Castle and Caistor St Edmund, if you like Roman sites.
Framlingham, Norwich and Bungay castles are good Norman sites, and then there are the dozens of lovely medieval churches.
I'd be interested in your recommendations @SuffolkBlue. My ideas about cafes and places of interest are all 25+ years out of date.
Apologies @Oldhippy if I am butting in to your thread.
OP
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Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
I love Framlingham Castle so will get there. I'm armed with Sustrans Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk maps and shall be wherever the fancy takes. Framlingham, Norwich, Bury St Edmunds I want to see. I will make a lot up because I can and don't forget to wave if you see me at the side of the road trying to figure out I am. 😁
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
If you don't like my very bendy route and want something more direct and wilderness-y like Peddars Way but less trashed by scramblers, Icknield Way under its various names (Brick Yard Lane, Eastgate Drove, Icknield Way, School Road, Vicarage Lane) runs north from the old church at Gayton Thorpe (on Rebellion Way I think, a short hop west of Peddars Way) to eventually Sedgeford station, where a bit of farm-track I've not used links a dead-end bridleway to NCN1 near one of the less-trashed bits of Peddars Way. But if you use all that, you'd miss a lot of sights from the RW guide.
I don't really understand why Peddars Way gets all the attention from National Trails and Norfolk Trails, while this branch of Icknield Way seems pretty undocumented and unexplored for cycling. There are some history/walking pages like http://www.twithr.co.uk/norfolk/icknieldway.htm
I don't really understand why Peddars Way gets all the attention from National Trails and Norfolk Trails, while this branch of Icknield Way seems pretty undocumented and unexplored for cycling. There are some history/walking pages like http://www.twithr.co.uk/norfolk/icknieldway.htm
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HobbesOnTour
Guru
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- España
I'm intrigued!
Who I am?
What I am?
Where I am going to?
Where I am going from?
Or purely existential..... If I am?
😀
A bike adventure - great for thinking and figuring things out!
Is a bit of stealth camping an option?
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Agreed. So either you're right. Or; i'm even more unfit than i thought.....
HobbesOnTour
Guru
- Location
- España
Well then, you really have lots of freedom!
Enjoy!
(And get some dirt on that shiny feckin' bike of yours
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