Hockham Heath to B1108 and return
Walked by Sally, Richard and Helen, Sunday 28th May 2006
Approx 11 miles - 5.5 miles along the Peddars Way and back
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We left the car at a parking place we'd noticed last week, where the metalled road ends at Galley Hill, and retraced our steps to Thompson Water. The weather was fairly grey but dry, though there were plenty of large puddles on the ground. There were more people about than last weekend, presumably partly because of the better weather and partly because it was a bank holiday weekend. However the land near the path (especially on the firing range) had lots of pretty flowers and wildlife - we saw two deer - and the trees were magnificent.
We continued on the track past Thompson Water. This narrowed to a path and skirted round the edge of Merton Park, home of the de Grey family since about 1337 and currently owned by Lord Walsingham. The hall was only just visible in the distance, but we walked through attractive parkland there were again lots of wildflowers (and we passed a patch of giant hogweed).
At Home Farm we did a 'dog-leg' left and then right to the B1108 in the stretch between Little Cressingham and Watton. I was reluctant to walk along the road to Little Cressingham (though we drove that way home) so we retraced our steps, stopping for lunch at a convenient tree stump about half a mile from the northern end of the walk.
