Walk 15 - Blicking to Calthorpe, circular walk walking and hiking route
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Walk Instructions
Start/car parking - Blickling main car park TG176285
(there is a parking fee)
Refreshments - The main car park Muddy Boots café,
The Stables Restaurant adjoining Blickling Hall, the
farmyard café or the Buckinghamshire Arms – check
websites for opening times.
A 7.5 mile walk visiting villages around the Blickling
Estate seeing various points of interest on the way
including the Mausoleum, Blickling Great Wood,
the Holiday Cottage known as the Tower and
Blickling Mill.
WALK
1. From the main Blickling car park, take the gravelled path
passing the shop, toilets and Visitor Centre on your right.
Pass through the wooden rails and turn left on to the drive
marked “Park and lake”.
2. Turn right at the “tree seat” following Weavers’ Way
and pass through the gates to the park. Take the gravelled
track straight ahead of you and as this rises, you will have
views over the lake to your right.
3. Pass through a set of gates and follow the Weavers Way
to the right, which soon passes around the end of the
lake. Just before some gates, turn left and follow a path
through woodland to a car park and exit onto a lane.
4. Turn right and after 225 metres pass through a kissing
gate on the left to follow Weavers’ Way across a meadow.
Cross a wooden foot bridge and then the “Chinese”
bridge and turn right to follow the River Bure to another
kissing gate.
5. From here the path follows a low causeway, crossing
a wooden foot bridge and exits the meadow via a kissing
gate. Follow the hedged track and pass houses on either
side. On reaching the lane turn left.
6. After 215 metres turn right onto a track (known as
Beech Lane) still following Weavers’ Way. Presently
Weavers’ Way leaves the track on the left hand side via
a public footpath which runs beside a fenced field.
7. At the end of the path turn right onto a lane and then
immediately left and follow the lane to Erpingham village.
Before reaching the Village you will pass the site of an old
mill. Erpingham was one of the very few places in Norfolk
to have both a watermill and a windmill on the same site.
8. At the T-junction in the village turn left, leave Weavers’
Way and follow The Street to Calthorpe. As the road bears
right continue straight on (signed to Wolterton). Pass the
church (Our Lady and St Margaret) on the left and just
after, at the crossroads, turn left.
9. Follow the lane, going down the hill (the lane drops well
below the level of the surrounding fields) and take the
lane on the right. Follow this lane as it zig-zags between
arable fields.
10. Continue following the lane, passing a restricted byway
on the right. After a while the lane ends at a track and
a farm drive signed as a public footpath. Take the track
straight ahead, crossing the footbridge over the River Bure
and when you meet the road turn right.
12. After 100 metres go straight on over the cross-tracks
along a woodland ride. Pass a bench on your left and just
ahead the ride forks – take the right hand fork. Follow the
ride, ignoring side paths, until you reach a clearing with
the mausoleum on your left.
13. When you have finished at the Mausoleum pass by
and turn right onto a path. The path will meet a track at
which point you can see The Tower in the distance in front
of you.
14. Turn left onto the track; follow it through a gate and
back through the parkland to the entrance. From here you
can retrace your steps to the car park and the end of your
walk. Depending on the time of the year, and time of
your walk, what better time to visit the hall and/or one of
the catering outlets.
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Disclaimer: This route was correct at time of writing. However, alterations can happen if development or boundary changes occur, and there is no guarantee of permanent access. These walks have been published for use by site visitors on the understanding that neither HPB Management Limited nor any other person connected with Holiday Property Bond is responsible for the safety or wellbeing of those following the routes as described. It is walkers' own responsibility to be adequately prepared and equipped for the level of walk and the weather conditions and to assess the safety and accessibility of the walk.
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