The Walk to Beccles 2021 - Gallery

The Walk to Beccles - picture gallery

Note that not every picture is individually captioned: multiple images of the same subject will share a single caption, while some are self-explanatory

  Day One - Finchley to Abridge

 

 

Dollis Valley Greenwalk, Finchley


Underhill, Barnet - left for Wales, right for Beccles

Monken Hadley Common, the London Loop



        Trent Park


 
Entering Hilly Fields Park, near Enfield
 

Clay Hill, near Enfield


 
The New River (Old Course), near Whitewebbs
 

Behind the Forty Hall Esate, Enfield


Urban wastelands - a "greenway" at Enfield Wash

Crossing the River Lea, Enfield Lock


The Bank of England's banknote printworks, Loughton

A very dodgy crossing, near Loughton

Crossing the M11 motorway, near Abridge


Abridge - the River Roding in flood
 
 
Day Two - Abridge to Dunmow



Damp start leaving Abridge 


 
Tunnel under the M25 motorway
 
 
London to Dunmow Roman Road, near Mount End
 
 
On Tawney Common
 


 
Old Blake Hall station
 
 
Essex affluence, Bobbingworth
 
 
Moreton - two pubs facing each other
 
 
St Mary the Virgin, Moreton (part 13th C)
 

 
Security everywhere...
 
 
Thatch sculpture at Blackcat
 
 
Village sign and welcome seat, Abbess Roding
 

No way through - near Leaden Roding

 
Road sign out of season? - the Easters
 
 
High Easter village
 

St Mary's, High Easter



Day Three - Dunmow to Great Yeldham
 
 



Great Dunmow
 







On the road from Dunmow to Finchingfield
 



 Great Bardfield
 






Finchingfield
 

 Lunch stop in Finchingfield churchyard
 




On the way to Great Yeldham
 

 Stucco wall decoration, Great Yeldham
 
 
Day Four - Great Yeldham to Lavenham
 
 






 Castle Hedingham





On the way to Sudbury


Suffolk at last - the Stour at Ballingdon


Sudbury


Newman's Green


On the way to Aston


Back lane at Aston



The road to Lavenham


Lavenham church

















 Tudor delights in Lavenham
 
 
Day Five - Lavenham to Barham
 
 


 
Leaving Lavenham on "Clay Lane"
 

Nova Scotia Lane
 



Kettlebaston
 

WW2 air crash memorial, Kettlebaston
 


Hitcham




The long road through Battisford


Battisford Church




 
Over the fields to Needham Market
 


Needham Market - and more stucco
 

 Needham Market old station building
 


Needham Lake 
 

Day Six - Barham to Badingham
 


Sandy Lane, leaving Barham
 

Hemingstone Hall
 

Hemingstone Church
 

Stonewall farm, Hemingstone
 

A bit of fun near Helmingham
 

Helmingham Church
 

 Roadside pump, Framsden
 

Former Doberman Inn, Framsden
 

On the way to Cretingham
 

Cretingham church
 

Unforecast rain coming...
 




Framlingham
 

Shawsgate vineyard
 

After the rain - approaching Badingham
 
 
 Day Seven - Badingham to Beccles
 
 



Wild Suffolk - Badingham to Ubbeston
 

Former church of St Peter, Ubbeston
 

Seasonal sign, Huntingfield
 

Could be in France...near Chediston
 

Sad old Methodist chapel, Rumburgh
 

 The sweetest house in Rumburgh
 


Beck's Green, Ilketshall St Lawrence
 

Getting close...Ringsfield Corner
 


Journey's end - Beccles


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