Walks you can reach from Wrabness by train

River valley, water meadows, arable fields, light woodland, estuary embankment, quaint villages and Constable-painted landscapes.

Time: 5h

Warnings: Can flood after rain.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

A historic walk around the Harwich peninsula, beginning at the High Lighthouse on the Essex Way and exploring the maritime heritage of Harwich before continuing along the coast past Dovercourt station.

Walk details: Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership (local insights).

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).

A walk of outstanding historical and architectural interest on field paths and quiet lanes, passing Rougham and Rushbrooke churches and following a road of Roman origin at Eastlow Hill, with a memorable approach to the historic town of Bury St Edmunds across No Man's Meadows.

Rougham Church: a lofty medieval church with East Anglian flint flushwork and a magnificent timber roof.

Rushbrooke Estate: the little church and parkland surviving from a Tudor mansion demolished in 1961.

St Edmundsbury Cathedral: its Millennium gothic tower, completed in 2005, dominates the approach across No Man's Meadows.

Bury St Edmunds

Time: 4h

Walk details: Mid Anglia Rail Passengers Association (PDF).

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).

A pleasant, mainly rural walk on footpaths and farm tracks through farmland, with some stiles and a couple of kissing gates. The approach into Ipswich is along the busy Wherstead Road and which has a pavement but is tedious. A diversion to Pin Mill is highly recommended. St Michael's church near Ipswich high school is open to the public.

Time: 5h30–11h

Lunch: There is also a shop at Chelmondiston.

Warnings: Some stiles and a kissing gate; sheep in fields near the Ipswich high school.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A long, varied route following the River Gipping out of Needham Market towards Ipswich, then crossing farmland with woodland and several villages before reaching Woodbridge. There is a long section of road walking from Barham through Henley. Path surfaces range from grass and soil to gravel and concrete drives, with cambers, muddy sections and some faint field paths. Many kissing gates and stiles and footbridges. Follows the River Gipping through Needham Lakes. Buses serve Henley and Grundisburgh for intermediate access. Benches in several churchyards en route.

Time: 7h–14h

Lunch: A shop at Grundisburgh; refreshments at Baylham rare breeds farm.

Warnings: The plotted route comes onto the B1079 between blind bends near Woodbridge, a rat-run road best avoided via Hasketon. Some lanes have only intermittent verges with two cars a minute. Many kissing gates and stiles; some field paths are faint; one footbridge needs repair. The path crosses the railway via two stiles.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A coastal walk on surfaced paths and promenade and curving round Landguard Fort and through the nature reserve before a long pedestrianised seafront stretch past the pier. Much of the line as drawn from the caravan parks onward is impossible to walk and should be ignored in favour of the prom.

Coastal: four fifths along the coast.

Time: 2h–4h

Warnings: The drawn line from the end of the caravan parks is mostly unwalkable; instead turn onto the unmade track and follow the promenade all the way along.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A long route passing under the Orwell Bridge and out towards Levington, then following good public rights of way down to Felixstowe and before being let down by busy roads through the town. A better finish follows the promenade past the pier.

Time: 7h–14h30

Warnings: The route through Felixstowe follows busy roads; a pleasanter alternative uses the promenade and pedestrianised Hamilton Road.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A very beautiful walk; Beautiful, open landscapes. A beautiful, varied walk: the Ipswich end is largely tarmac main roads alongside a loud A-road, after which an off-road path tracks the River Gipping through open fields, ponds and woodland and past old mill buildings. A gentle and pretty winding river path. Follows the River Gipping for much of its length, passing Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm. The not-keen stretch is the long walk down Norwich Road in Ipswich.

Time: 4h30–8h30

Warnings: A bridge over the Old River between Pipps Lock and Creeting Lock was closed/fenced off (now resolved with a new bridge per a later review); check its status. The route around Great Blakenham and south of Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm would benefit from minor adjustments.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Reverse direction: Mid Anglia Rail Passengers Association (PDF).