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Walk 2 Watton Church/ Town Green On this walk you will see nature quietly reclaiming some of Watton’s old military remains; creating a new use for structures that once sheltered troops during the war. • Blackthorn • Iron gate pier, Church Walk 12 Key Cadman Way P Start War Memorial Memorial Way Walk 2 Parking P Church 0 ½km ¼mile St Mary’s Church Church Walk Watton Church Road St Mary’s Church This church has a Norman round tower of 13th century date, although the top of the tower is a later addition. The core of the church is of this date, with the chancel and south arcade being in the Early English style. However, the north arcade is in the later Perpendicular style. The church was altered in the 15th century and the exterior reclad in the late 19th century. Inside, there are screens dating to 1852 and a wooden poor box in the form of a stiffly standing parson which dates to 1639. The churchyard is a regionally important example of an ornamental churchyard. Norwich Road Town Green Road Griston Road © Crown copyright and database rights 2011 Ordnance Survey 100019340 Watton Green 13
Walk 3 Watton/ Merton 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 3.7 miles (or shorter walk 2.7 miles) Details Minor gradients, long walk 25% soft, short walk 30% soft Walk instructions 1. Starting at the war memorial, bear right along Merton Road. Pass all the houses and the High School and follow Merton Road out in to the countryside. 2. For the longer walk stay on Merton Road until reaching Merton Green. Turn first right before the village shelter on to Tottington Terrace and then bear right at the T-junction on to The Green leading to Home Farm Lane. 3. Follow the road past Merton Village Hall to the junction and turn right; the hard surface gives way to a farm track. Follow the restricted byway to the end (now follow instruction 5 below). 4. For the short walk (continued from instruction 1): approximately 500 yards after passing the last of the houses on Merton Road, turn right on to the public footpath opposite the wood (Rabbit Plantation). Follow the path around the edge of the field, keeping the hedge on your right. At the end, turn right to cross a footbridge (now follow instruction 5 below). 5. Cross the footbridge over the stream and bear left along the track called Long Bridle Road. After approximately a third of a mile, look out for a row of houses on your right. Turn right on to the hard surface path leading into the housing estate; then bear left on to Stokes Avenue. Pass Bridle Road on your right and keep walking to the end of Stokes Avenue. 14 6. Turn right at the T-junction on to Brandon Road. Continue ahead over the roundabout onto the High Street. Walk all the way along the High Street and then just before you reach the traffic light junction, turn right on to Thetford Road and walk back to your start point beside the war memorial. Flints An abundance of flint in nearby fields indicates that buildings such as these cottages will have been constructed using local materials. The Clock Tower The clock tower is narrow with three storeys and is thought to have been erected after the great fire of 1674 which destroyed many of Watton’s buildings. The clock itself dates to 1827 and is set below the lintel of a medieval cross and above a shield depicting a hare and barrel. Additionally, wooden spandrels in the clock tower may have come from another medieval market cross. The tower is topped with a cupola in which a bell was placed, supposedly to warn inhabitants if fire broke out again. It is thought to have been re-faced in the 19th century. The Cupola is mounted by a weathervane dating to 1820, also in the form of a hare and a barrel. Virtually all the visible façade is of latter date. 15
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