Gayton and Gayton Thorpe

The walk starts at the Crown Inn in Gayton and follows the newly opened West Acre Way for the first mile or so. Having left the village, we will not follow the path into the actual re-wilding area but may be lucky enough to spot White Park Cattle, Exmoor Ponies and/or Iron Age Pigs in the fields adjacent to the path.  We will cross the B1153 into the village of Gayton Thorpe and up to St Mary's Church which sits in a lovely setting above the green.  The tower is probably C11th making it one of the earliest round towers in Norfolk.  We will then return to Gayton via minor roads and walk through the village past the new school and back up to the C13th St Nicholas Church.  Lovely lunches, including sandwiches, jacket potatoes etc, are available in The Crown to compete the Gayton Experience !