A quick visit to Suffolk and Norfolk
White Horse pub and campsite at Edwardstone
It’s moving on day so we leave the lovely forest behind us, although we have now been told we should have visited Staverton Thicks, a collection of old trees that were. once pollarded and have mystical shapes!
As we ran out of energy on our Sutton Hoo visit to cycle round to Woodbridge, we stop off at the town on our way to Edwardstone. We were unable to park the van in the car parks so parked on the Melton Road which was nice and wide with plenty of parking space. I wanted to visit the Tidal Mill but was a bit disappointed as it is only a Mill on a tidal river. I don’t really know what I was expecting!
There are some restaurants around the Mill in a new developed area but we chose to have lunch at The Brown Bread Bakery in the High Street which had delicious focaccia and sour bread toasties (the bacon goats cheese and onion jam one was delicious). We also succumbed to slices of pear and chocolate and plum tart to take with us.
We have moved on to an empty field behind the White Horse pub in Edwardstone, which has it’s own brewery The Little Earth ProjectOver the weekend they have had their Little Earth Fest, so we have just missed the crowds. The campsite has a toilet and a shower for men and women and plenty of hot water. The variety of beer and cider on tap is the best we have seen in a long while so we will spend our evenings tasting a selection.
For non campers the pub also have 2 rental cottages.
Day 1
We climbed onto bikes to head towards Lavenham on our first day staying at the pub, via quiet lanes and B roads. Lavenham is a picturesque village of over 300 timbered buildings. It was once a very wealthy town due to the wool and cloth trade, and so the merchants built themselves beautiful houses which we can see today. By the 1520’s this bubble had burst and the village no longer had the money to modernise their homes. Luckily they were saved over the years and restored so we can now enjoy these lovely buildings caught in their own time warp. The Guildhall of Corpus Christie was built by these rich medieval merchants and over the centuries this building has had a lot of uses from work house to grain store. It is now under the guardianship of the National Trust and has some good stories of the people who once lived here.
It was an interesting town to visit with a lovely old square, but the only bike racks we found belonged to a pub. I am enjoying cycling round here along the mainly quiet country lanes but my partner says he prefers cities with the wider roads and cycle paths!
Back to the pub to sample some more beer and cider!