Newmarket to Bury St Edmunds
A station-to-station walkCambridgeshireEast Anglia
A long route mostly on footpaths and bridleways with some short sections on small roads, passing through several small villages. It leaves Newmarket with a fairly long stretch of road walking on a verge said to be wide, flat and reliably mown. Near Horringer it crosses the National Trust Ickworth Estate and using the estate's tracks and including Open Access Land. Passes through the villages of Ashley, Dalham and Horringer where you can stop, eat, shop or stay overnight, and crosses the National Trust Ickworth Estate (Open Access Land).
Ickworth Estate: a National Trust estate of 1,800 acres with a striking rotunda house and parkland partly laid out by Capability Brown (National Trust; 3h30 to visit).
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds: The only surviving Regency playhouse in Britain (National Trust; 1h to visit).
Lunch: A National Trust cafe in Ickworth Park.
Warnings: A fairly long stretch of road walking leaving Newmarket, using a wide mown verge.
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Source: An alternative variant of Newbur two (Slow Ways).