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Sizewell
Circular Walks – Directions
Walk
5 – Chapel Ruins • Eastbridge • Sizewell Belts
7
miles - 3 hour stroll
From The Vulcan Arms, go over the stile opposite
the pub car park and cut across the field towards the power station
and the sea front car park. From here steps lead you down onto
the coastal footpath. Proceed northwards past the power station
where information boards detail the conservation and wildlife
aspects of the coastal area. Carry on across all the way past
Sizewell A, (The square shaped building) and Sizewell B (the huge
golf ball building) until the perimeter fence turns inland. Follow
the coastal footpath until you come to Minsmere Sluice, where
a small footbridge takes you over the dike and leads onto a track
on the Sizewell side of the Mismere river.
To get up to the chapel ruins, follow the ditch
on your left until you come to an access across it. This is not
a public footpath, but is well trodden by many other intrepid
walkers.
Returning to the track by the river, follow this
inland until it comes to a sharp left hand bend. Here you will
find a footpath sign directing you across the field opposite the
track. Proceed along this until it brings you out onto a lane
which takes you into Eastbridge Village. At the road, turn left
and keep to the road for half a mile where, on the left, a footpath
sign directs down another track. Take this track, bearing to the
right at the old cottages, and keep to it all the way to the Kenton
Hills Car Park
Follow the blue arrows on the marker posts located
alongside this route until you come to a sign directing you to
The Sizewell Belts. Walk down here, past a small pond, over a
stile and across the pasture. The path then leads you up a steep
bank and onto Leiston Common. Turn left and follow the bank round
and down to the edge of the woods. Keep walking through the woods
to the end of the path, where, turning right you join a track.
Keep to this until you see a footpath sign within the trees on
your left hand side just before the bar across the track. Take
this footpath, across the field, over a stile, then keep bearing
right until you meet up with a farm track. Turn left onto this
track, up over the hill, past the woods on the left until the
track bears round to the right. As it does so, you should see
a gate on the left with a stile next to it. Proceed over the stile
and along the lane until it junctions with a second Sandy Lane.
Turn right and the lane will bring you out on the road, 200 yards
from the pub.
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