A handsome inn on Church Plain in Loddon, at the head of the Chet navigation where the river runs down to the Yare. Four-legged friends are most welcome and two of the bedrooms are dog friendly. The riverside path down to Loddon Mill and the staithe is flat and short.
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The fire, the snug, the water bowl by the door.
A few dishes and what they cost, so people arrive knowing.
Can the dog actually sleep here, and what does it cost.
Which rooms, which times, whether the whippet gets a biscuit.
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Five and a half miles and about two and three quarter hours on the Wherryman's Way, the 35-mile path from Norwich to Great Yarmouth, out from the staithe along the Chet to the shallow lagoons of Hardley Flood and back through Chedgrave and Hardley Street. Start from the free car park at Loddon staithe beside the mill, which is untimed and rarely full, and note the riverside section is a grass wall that stays wet well into spring. Dogs are fine under effective control on the rights of way and the Chet gives a drink at the moorings, but the marsh sections are grazed by cattle where leads are needed, and the reedbeds around the Flood hide deep water with no bank to climb out on.
Four and a half miles there and back, two and a quarter hours on grass river wall and farm track, following the Chet down from Loddon to the isolated brick and thatch shell of Hardley Staithe where the wherries once loaded. It starts at the free untimed car park at Loddon staithe, the only sensible parking, and there is nothing at the far end but marsh, so carry water for both of you. The going is flat with no stiles, the river is reachable at the moorings for a drink, cattle graze the marsh compartments most of the year so a lead is needed there, and the wall itself is unfenced with a steep drop into the Chet on one side.
Nobody has written one for The Loddon Swan. If you have been with the dog, you would be the first — and the first review is the one everybody reads.
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