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Walk
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Ashill
Church
Start point Community Centre (Hale Road, Ashill)
Grid reference TF886048 • Postcode IP25 7BL
Parking Community Centre car park – free
Distance 1.2 miles
Details Minor gradients, 55% soft
Walk instructions
(Village shop
on Hale Road)
1. From the community centre, turn right along Hale Road.
After approximately 200 yards and just before you reach Chapel Lane
and the Methodist church, turn right on to a public footpath between
the houses.
2. Follow the footpath right and then at the end, turn left on to a track.
At the end of the track, cross the drain via a footbridge and turn left.
Keep following the public footpath along the field edge as it turns right
and then left.
3. At the end of the footpath, turn left on to Swaffham Road. Just after
St Nicholas Church, continue straight on to Church Street.
4. At the end of Church Street, turn left on to Hale Road. Follow Hale
Road back through the village to the Community Centre on your left.
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Church of St Nicholas
This is an impressive late medieval church with a west tower, a nave
with just one aisle and a series of upper windows. The tower has an
extraordinary main doorway formed with a flame-like ogee arch.
The church is built in a mixture of styles including Early English, suggesting
that the parishioners of Ashill felt wealthy enough to continually rebuild
sections of their church. The nave roof is dated 1618. The church was
restored in the 19th century.
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