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Really busy when I arrived, great tracks through the trees, tight with wide bars and nearly came a cropper more than once!

Get ready to drift in the summer sand

Coffee wagon Thursday to Sunday 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. Around 30 wild ponies roaming.

River crossing on the north eastern edge of Knettishal Heath

An unusual geographical feature where the stream at the bottom of this steep-sided ‘hollow’ has eroded the soft chalky ground. An enjoyable section of this route at any time of year.

This was the original route from Stanton to Bury St Edmunds. The wooded parts are home to thousands of Bluebells in late spring.

This is a narrow village lane leading to Barningham Road, where you cross and continue by a stream

A poignant reminder of war. This makeshift memorial marks the site of a crashed Wellington in 1942. Further information is available online.

This area has mostly clay soil so can be sticky after we weather

The grundle becomes a running stream after wet weather but this can normally be navigated by crossing it and taking the upper path which has short steeper sections

Goshawk nest nearby. look up

good place for a rest

Looks great with how green everything is

Great set of tools for cyclists at the Coop

Grundle, Grindle, or Grendel? This amazing holloway near Stanton, is believed to be the lair of Grendel, the evil beasty of the Beowolf epic, written in Anglo Saxon times when the Wolf Kings ruled East Anglia. Its definitely a gateway to another world, sunk deep into the chalk, with steep sides and tree cover it does not feel like East Anglia at all. Great in Summer, river-like in Winter, but passable, with care.

high step through a tight, tall kissing gate

Knettishall Heath is a 91.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Knettishall in Suffolk. A larger area of 176 hectares is the Knettishall Heath Nature Reserve, which is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.

Knettishall Heath is a 91.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Knettishall in Suffolk. A larger area of 176 hectares is the Knettishall Heath Nature Reserve. The open landscape created by our Bronze Age ancestors 4,000 years ago had changed very little until the 20th century when forestry and modern farming transformed large parts of The Brecks. Knettishall Heath still retains a sense of what this ancient landscape must have looked like in the past.

There is a bridge here over the water so you can continue along Peddars Way. There is also access to the river (easier to access from the Knettishall side). It is a great and safe place to let your dogs into the river for a play. We take our dogs here for their first paddle

Watch out for the cattle grids at each end of the heath road, they really rattle you if you hit them at speed!