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Cycling
around Eye
Booklet
of 3 cycle routes centred around the town of Eye, with Ordnance Survey
based mapping and information on places of interest along the route. Extract:
'The
cycle routes in this leaflet can be divided into three easy rides which
can be completed in one day by the energetic. The Ordnance Survey map extract
makes it easy to plan detours, short cuts or alternative routes.'
Route
1 18
miles
Eye
- Mellis - Thorndon Circular Route
2
Horham and Hoxne 21 miles
Route
3
Eye Circular - Harleston
link for the Upper Waveney Valley South Norfolk Route 20
miles
Along the
way:
... Eye Castle - an
attack in 1265 the castle in ruins, its
remaining structure used as a prison, a windmill built on the site of
the castle motte in 1561, later demolished and replaced with its present
folly ... Yaxley - sitting astride the old Roman road to Norwich
... Mellis - with one of the largest commons in England ... Thornham Magna - with its
thatch cottages painted in traditional pink ... Braiseworth - its
bridleway to the north heading through Steggals Wood ... Bedingfield
Hall - its moat forming an island of 4 acres ... Horham - St
Mary's church recorded in the Doomsday survey of 1089 and holding the
oldest peal of 8 bells in the world ... Hoxne Cross Street - with old and traditional Suffolk cottages ...
Hoxne -
pronounced 'Hoxen', the whole area is associated with the legend that
surrounds the martyrdom of Edmund King of East Anglia, his unpleasant death and the
curse of the newly weds. Its also here that a hoard of treasure
found by chance by a man looking for a hammer consisted of 14,870 coins and 200
artefacts, all gold
and silver, making it the largest single find within the Roman Empire -
coins in the hoard dated it to after 470 AD, just about the time the
Romans were abandoning their control of Britain ...
Information
courtesy of various organisations including Mid Suffolk District Council
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