Walks from Elmswell
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Elmswell Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Elmswell by train.
Elmswell to Thurston
A varied walk through gentle Suffolk countryside with contrasting natural habitats. The longer route leads through Norton Wood, an ancient woodland, across marsh and rough grazing in the shallow Black Bourn valley and the Grove Farm nature reserve, then on via Pakenham's parish church and parkland.
Norton Wood: one of Suffolk's many ancient woodlands.
Grove Farm: a Suffolk Wildlife Trust nature reserve of marsh and rough grazing.
Pakenham Church: an interesting medieval parish church set in verdant parkland.
Time: 4h30
Lunch: A welcoming pub in the centre of Norton village (on both routes).
Warnings: The marsh and rough grazing in the Black Bourn valley may be very wet underfoot in winter and spring. Can be muddy.
Walk details: Mid Anglia Rail Passengers Association (PDF).
Stowmarket to Elmswell
Field and meadow paths from Stowmarket's Greens Meadow, passing a marshy wildlife reserve on the approach to the isolated settlement of Dagworth, then on by pleasant field paths to the attractive green at Haughley, once the site of a market and fair.
Time: 4h
Walk details: Mid Anglia Rail Passengers Association (PDF).