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Exploring a Couple Bury Parks (5/5/24)

It is a beautiful 64 F degree day in Bury, and Bob and I used it to explore more of the area by heading off to check out two parks — Hardwick Heath and Nowton Park. Hardwick Heath is about 1.5 miles from where we are staying, and Nowton Park is 2.4 miles. Since it was a beautiful weekend day, they were both getting a lot of use.

Walking by a water tower near our neighborhood
A quick peek into the Bury St Edmunds Cemetery
as we passed it on our walk
A pedestrian bridge across the River Linnet
The path along the River Linnet,
actually a chalk stream fed from springs in the local aquifer
Crossing over a bridge
The plant filled stream
A National Bicycle Network sign.
We’ve passed many of these in our UK rambles.
A path through a neighborhood

Hardwick Heath is a park of about 55 acres that contains a children’s play area, football pitches (in use today), picnic areas, and walking trails.

One of the football pitches
The path through the wooded area of the park

The 200 acre Nowton Park has lots to offer, including football pitches, arboretums, walking paths, a maze (closed until June), ponds, wildflower meadow, and a cafe. We walked around, although we didn’t find the way finding markers particularly helpful, so we were always guessing a bit on our actual location based on the map below.

Map of the popular park
This seems like it should be helpful.
The wildflower meadow maybe.
It wasn’t what we went in search of.
We’re confident this is one of the ponds.
A lovely arch

Another fun note from today. Both parks seemed to have some dog classes that had just ended when we got there — pugs at Hardwick Heath and Dachshunds at Nowton.

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