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Walk
4 Watton/
Wayland Wood
Start point War Memorial (Memorial Way, Watton)
Grid reference TF917006 • Postcode IP25 6BS
Parking Free parking on Thetford Road by the War Memorial/
various town centre car parks
Distance 3.5 miles
Details Minor gradients, 75% soft
Walk instructions
Please note: to prevent disturbance to wildlife, dogs are not allowed
within Wayland Wood Nature Reserve.
1. Starting at the war memorial, turn left along Memorial Way to the traffic
light junction and then turn right on to Norwich Road.
2. Just after the right turn to the industrial estate, turn right on to Griston
Road. After approximately a quarter of a mile, turn right on to Field
Maple Road. Bear right into Whitebeam Crescent and then bear left
around the green.
3. Follow Whitebeam Crescent to the end and then leave the housing
estate, turning right on to a path behind the houses and around the
outer boundary of a field which will be on your left.
4. At the fenceline, turn left to follow the direction of the public footpath
across the field to the opposite hedge. Go through the gap in the
hedge beside the waymark post and continue in the same direction
across a second field, heading for the corner of Wayland Wood.
5. As you approach the hedgeline, follow the path through the field
boundary. Go through the kissing gate to Wayland Wood in front
of you.
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6. Follow the path straight on (don’t follow the public footpath to your
right). Pass a pond and go through/round a gate before heading straight
on over a small earth bank.
7. Follow the path until
it opens out to a
main track. Here
you will see some
Norfolk Wildlife
Trust waymarker
posts. Follow the
Norfolk Wildlife Trust
waymarked circular
trail through the
wood, ignoring all
paths leading off the
main wide grassy path.
Please note: there is an information panel by the car parking area.
8. Eventually you should come back to the point at which you joined the
circular trail and you can retrace your steps back out of the wood, over
the earth bank, through/round the metal gate and then through the
kissing gate.
9. Cross the track and go through the hedgeline in front of you. Retrace
your steps back across the field. Go through the hedge with the
waymarker post and then turn left along the footpath cross-field.
10. Go through the hedgeline at the waymarker post and turn right to
follow this footpath past some houses to the road.
11. Turn left, crossing Abbey Road to head straight along Vicarage Walk.
Follow Vicarage Walk round to the right. Turn left onto Monkhams
Drive, then turn right at the T-junction on to Thetford Road. Continue
along Thetford Road to return to your start point at the war memorial.
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Photograph © David North, Norfolk Wildlife Trust