タンストールの天然記念物・トップ5

信じられないほど多くの、非常に古い木々です。こんなものは見たことがありません。特に夕暮れ時は素晴らしいです。すると、ほとんど魔法のようです！

https://youtu.be/XZFX0MvuEtU?si=dkHtqHoH3jBjEvQg

The fencing has gone as the land owners have stopped farmi g cows for dheep as they do less enviromental damage.

It's a dead end for roadies as there's only one tarmacked road to it but it's a nice ride and there's the Tinto Café horsebox at the car park, which does hot drinks, sandwiches and toasties, cakes and snacks. Officially it closes at 4pm but it was still serving at 4.30 when I was there, thankfully.

Staverton Park, Suffolk, ‘a famous and awesome place of Tolkienesque wonder and beauty’, and ‘one of the best-preserved uncompartmented medieval parks’. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside, 1986. It's also the location of the 'Lunch Tree' in the detectorists, magical.

The tree itself is on private land in a small paddock. You can safely ride to the gates also used in the series and view the tree from there. I was lucky enough to meet someone working on the parkland who was happy for me to nip in and grab a quick snap.

The ride in is along quite a rough track so don't do it on inappropriate tyres.

If your like me and you like to add interest to your rides or hikes with a historical or cultural destination, you can't go far wrong with a film or TV location. This is the 'Lunch Tree' from the popular TV series 'The Detectorists'. The favourite resting spot of characters Andy (Mackenzie Crook) and Lance (Toby Jones) fellow detectorists. The series is set in the fictional small town of Danebury in north Essex but all the filming was done here in Suffolk.