Angles WayThe Angles Way is a footpath which is branded "From Broads to Brecks", running from Great Yarmouth along the routes of the Rivers Yare, Waveney and Little Ouse (and thus broadly the Norfolk/Suffolk border) to Knettishall Heath, near where the Icknield Way Path and the Peddars Way meet: on its way it passes the start of the Mid-Suffolk Footpath. Its official length is 126 km. The route was voted the best waterside walk in Britain by waterscape.com in 2003.
However, on the whole I prefer to walk from west to east, and although Knettishall Heath is a fine place, hopefully to get better in the care of Suffolk Wildlife Trust rather than the County Council who've abandoned it, I thought that it would serve just as well as an inspiring start and The Broads (and, with a short extension, the sea) would be a good finale - old style waymarkers that I found en route showed, for those going east-to-west, the description "Brecks to Broads", but in replacing them with uniform waymarkers, a single brand has been adopted. Additionally, as the first two long distance paths I mentioned above meet on the western side of Knettishall Heath, it seemed to me that it was therefore much more satisfying for the Angles Way to connect with them rather than finishing on the eastern side of the Heath, and so I started from the west with a short extension to the official route. My walks on the Angles Way
Total walked so far: 81 km, or about 65% of the Angles Way Click here to open this map larger in a new window The Angles Way links
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