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Walk 1 Loch Neaton/ Church Walk An easy-going figure of eight walk around picturesque Loch Neaton and St Mary’s Church. Church Walk This tree lined walk is also known as Walsingham Way. The western end of the walk appears on a map of 1792. The footway was allotted to the inhabitants of Watton, as a way to their church, by the enclosure commissioners in 1801. The avenue was bisected by the railway in the 1860s and a period of decline followed. The walk was replanted with lime trees in 1903 resulting from proposals made in commemoration of the coronation of King Edward VII. Ornamental iron gates dating from the 1830s were given by Lord Walsingham and relocated from his Merton estate. The iron gate piers, embossed with ‘1902’ and ‘Walsingham’, survive, however the gates have been removed. Key Walk 1 Parking P Church 0 ½km 8 ¼mile Sports Centre Dereham Road Middle Street Thetford Road Start A1075 Loch Lane Loch Neaton P War Memorial Dereham Road Church Walk Norwich Road 9 Church Road Memorial Way St Mary’s Church Watton © Crown copyright and database rights 2011 Ordnance Survey 100019340
Walk 2 Watton Church/ Town Green 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 2.2 miles Details Minor gradients, 100% firm Walk instructions 1. Starting at the war memorial, turn left on to Memorial Way. At the traffic light junction cross to Cadman Way. Cross to walk along the right hand side of the road, pass Kittle Close and then turn right on to Church Walk via the white gates. 2. Continue ahead at the end on to Church Road. Pass St Mary’s Church which will be on your right and follow this quiet country lane to the end (note Church Road becomes Town Green Road). 3. Turn right at the T-junction to Watton Green and follow the road around the corner to the end. 4. Cross Norwich Road on to the cycle way opposite (there is a safe crossing point a little to the left). 5. At the end of the cycle way turn right on to Griston Road and walk all the way to the end. Turn left at the T-junction on to Norwich Road. 6. Turn left at the traffic lights on to Memorial Way and return to your start point by the war memorial. 10 • Peacock butterfly Nissen Huts Look to your left as you walk along Town Green Road; there are some old Nissen huts that are being quietly reclaimed by nature. A Nissen hut, named so after its designer Colonel Nissen is a pre-fabricated steel structure made from a semi-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel. The Nissen hut was first produced in 1915 and was used extensively during both World Wars. The huts in Watton were erected during World War Two and relate to the airfield which lies to the east of the town. The site is one of several World War Two military sites on Town Green Road that are visible on RAF aerial photographs taken in 1946. A tangle of wild plants now dominates the military remains. Ivy and brambles scramble over the ruins, whilst scrubby hedgerow species such as hazel and elder provide a great habitat for many birds and insects. 11
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