This file describes my walk around East Anglia.

As with many of my walks, when I did the first few legs of this walk I did not intend to do it all; the idea of walking the route just developed over time as I walked further and further. The walk was developed in three distinct stages:

• A walk up the Fen Rivers Way and the Great Ouse from Waterbeach to King's Lynn;
• A walk east from Waterbeach to Ipswich;
• A walk north and east to get to Cromer and join the other two walks up.

The walk statistics:

 

Total duration of walk	4 days, 5 hours and 41 minutes
Stopped time	5 hours and 24 minutes
Shortest completed leg	Kings Lynn Station to Watlington Station at 6 miles
Longest completed leg	Newmarket to Bury St Edmunds at 21.7 miles
Average distance per leg	12.29 miles

 

	Walk number	From	To	Time
Earliest start	walk 23	Stowmarket	Ipswich Station	07.30
Latest start	walk 18	Littleport Station	Ely Station	15.25
Earliest finish	walk 14	Snettisham	Kings Lynn Station	09.00
Latest finish	walk 21	Newmarket	Bury St Edmunds	17.12

The walk in full:

	No.	From	To	Distance	Status
	1	Ipswich Station	Wickham Market Station	16.7	Completed
	2	Wickham Market Station	Darsham Station	12.7	Completed
	3	Darsham Station	Brampton Station	12.3	Completed
	4	Brampton Station	Lowestoft Station	13.9	Completed
	5	Lowestoft Station	Caister-on-Sea lifeboat station	12.5	Completed
	6	Caister-on-Sea lifeboat station	Sea Palling lifeboat station	11.9	Completed
	7	Sea Palling lifeboat station	Mundesley	11.3	Completed
	8	Mundesley	Cromer bus station	7.6	Completed
	9	Cromer bus station	Cley-next-the-Sea bus stop	13.5	Completed
	10	Cley-next-the-Sea bus stop	Wells-next-the-Sea	11.3	Completed
	11	Wells-next-the-Sea	Burnham Deepdale	9.5	Completed
	12	Burnham Deepdale	Hunstanton Cliff top car park	10.3	Completed
	13	Hunstanton Cliff top car park	Snettisham	8.7	Completed
	14	Snettisham	Kings Lynn Station	14.6	Completed
	15	Kings Lynn Station	Watlington Station	6	Completed
	16	Watlington Station	Downham Market Station	6.2	Completed
	17	Downham Market Station	Littleport Station	12.5	Completed
	18	Littleport Station	Ely Station	7	Completed
	19	Ely Station	Waterbeach	12	Completed
	20	Waterbeach	Newmarket	18	Completed
	21	Newmarket	Bury St Edmunds	21.7	Completed
	22	Bury St Edmunds	Stowmarket	15.6	Completed
	23	Stowmarket	Ipswich Station	17	Completed

Stage 1: From Ipswich Station to Cromer bus station

Stage 2: From Cromer bus station to Snettisham

Stage 3: From Snettisham to Waterbeach

Stage 4: From Waterbeach to Ipswich Station

Current Status

This route has now been fully completed; I may choose to reopen it sometime in the future and do the section between Lowestoft and Ipswich along the coast via Felixstowe, replacing the inland route which I chose to do.

A regret that I have is that I did not do all the walksin this route in the same direction; some were done north-south and others south-north. Also because some of the early walks were done in 1999, some of the walks do not have any photographs associated with them.

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