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Aylsham
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We parked in the Mill Road free car park in Aylsham, which is 10 miles north of Norwich. This was a very pretty and pleasant five-mile walk, with only one bad path at the end.

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From the car park we turned right into Mill Road. At the T-junction we went left, then left again by the marker sign in a hedge along a track. We continued along the path as it narrowed and became tree-lined, then went along the edge of a field. Climbing the steps we turned right along Marriotts Way, the old railway line, crossed two roads and a track, then, at the marker signs of a bridle way and footpath, turned left down hill and along a very pretty narrow tree-lined path. Reaching a track we kept left and, on reaching another track, left again.

Crossing the road we walked the signed path opposite, the farmer having left a tramline through the barley field.
At the track we went left, then left again just after the concrete pad along another track before turning right along the country lane. We climbed the bank at the footpath sign by the electric pole on our left and went diagonally right across the set-a-side field to a gap in the bank and sign before turning left along the country lane.

Then, at the metal finger-post in the hedge opposite a brick barn, we climbed the steps on the left into the field. We had to ask where was the route across this knee-high crop? First we turned left up the field, then made our way to the rise and the electric pole, walking across the crop. Then we spotted the footpath sign and we had no option but to continue trampling down more of it to reach the sign.

If the correct route is not put across the field before this walk comes out, then we are sorry to say that most probably a lot more of this valuable crop will be trampled down. We climbed the stile, went down the steps, crossed the road, and walked along the path opposite, crossing another road on this new estate.

At the end we turned left and continued over the cross-roads along Hungate Street to the Unicorn Inn. Retracing our steps a few yards we turned right into Unicorn Lane, and then back to the car park.

Map References 0S Sheet Landranger 133, Explorer 238: 191267, 189267, 188263, 163260, 168252, 170252, 182254, 184252, 192256, 192258, 192263, 193269, 191267.

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