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Kersey Vale This is another walk described in a leaflet from the library, but walked the other way round. Start at Toppesfield Bridge and walk up the concrete lane past Toppesfield House and Toppesfield Farm to Love Lane and turn right. Keep on till you reach the old Sudbury road. You could have started the walk differently by walking upstream from the bridge but on the field edge. Then turning left towards Broom Hill Nature Reserve but continuing up hill (Reserve on your right) till you reach Love Lane and go right. Turn left and reach the A1071 close to Coram Street Farm. Cross the road and go a few yards toward Sudbury before turning right (FP sign) along a headland track which is level at first and then becomes a path which takes you steeply downhill into Kersey Vale. Cross the brook on a stile and bridge and turn right at the road. Vale Lane takes you along the Vale and then up out of it to a junction where the houses of Kersey start-you are about 500 yards from the church. But we go right down Water Lane for several hundred yards to a FP sign pointing right, across a field and to a wooden bridge. The path continues in exactly the same direction (South East) up and across the field. There is no obvious target to aim for until you are nearly to the top and can see the little group of trees, but the path is usually visible on the ground and later in the year is kept clear of crops. The path is now on the left edge of one field and the right of the next one with our target clear in front - A FP sign on the bypass and another on the other side of the road. Follow the path to a corner in a few yards where we could go diagonally across the field but where we take the left option down a green lane with trees and shrubs on either side. This takes us to Castle Road, which we follow down to the Cricket ground, skirting this we come to Cork Lane and the River Walk back to the starting point. |
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