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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Loddon and Beccles.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Loddon and Beccles.
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Reviews - 3
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Is this route good enough? - Yes (3)
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Loddon
Grid Ref
TM3621298741
Lat / Lon
52.53529° / 1.48152°
Easting / Northing
636,212E / 298,741N
What3Words
bill.junction.consoles
Beccles
Grid Ref
TM4222090329
Lat / Lon
52.45718° / 1.56382°
Easting / Northing
642,221E / 290,329N
What3Words
bypasses.ourselves.freed
Lodbec One's land is
| Loddon | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | TM3621298741 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.53529° / 1.48152° |
| Easting / Northing | 636,212E / 298,741N |
| What3Words | bill.junction.consoles |
| Beccles | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | TM4222090329 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.45718° / 1.56382° |
| Easting / Northing | 642,221E / 290,329N |
| What3Words | bypasses.ourselves.freed |
| Arable | 50.5% |
| Marshes | 1.8% |
| Pasture | 33.7% |
| Urban | 9.9% |
| Woods | 4.0% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
reviews
Alex Bennett
30 Mar 2024We parked by the Quay in Beccles and caught the X22 bus to Loddon. Once out of Loddon (after waiting to cross the busy A146) the walk heads in to a sort of low valley, heading up to Hales green via the impressive 14th Century Hales hall. As others have said, the section from Walsh lane to Bungay road wasn't clearly a footpath, so you might want to carry on up the road and take the left onto honeypot lane instead. Then it's over another busy road (A143 this time), the Geldestone.
The Locks Inn community pub just outside Geldestone was open when we walked past, and would make a nice half way mark stop for food and refreshments, but we carried on straight into Beccles for an ice cream by the Quay.
Walking is mostly gravel tracks and farm lanes, some were a little muddy and wet, but I was fine in trainers. A few kissing gates and bridges, but no stiles.
Truffle
30 Mar 2024This was a really nice route between two nice old towns with plenty of facilities and charm. Some stretches seem likely to get overgrown as it was a case of duck and dive and avoid thorns in late March as we've walked it. There is a stretch off wash lane that I don't think is general access and passes through some copses obviously used for hunting. Id probably stick to wash lane a little longer and pick up the same route past the church Kirby Cane and take the left on honeypot lane. There were a few faster vehicles on wash lane as the previous reviewer noted but there are wider verges and it didn't feel too bad as people gave a wide berth. Mix of path types although note that at the same area in Kirby the path clearly states no bicycles and only walkers. Easy walking overall and passes a few pubs on the way. Some really nice paths with spring flowers out.
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SallyfromNorwich
11 May 2021Very little road walking on this route. A lovely footpath out of Loddon and alongside the Warren Hills. Wash Lane was a little busy and the first farm track off it was gated but the second wasn’t. No right of way on this farm track. Lovely stretch to cross the river Waveney at Geldeston Lock (pub was open) and then to join Angles Way. Some very feisty bullocks in one field.
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