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Lynford Arboretum and Lynford Water

Mundford · IP26 5HW
A134 N 440 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
3MILES
1h 30mON FOOT
25mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 94% 6% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 46%Lane & track 48%Road with traffic 6%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at
Forestry England car park on Lynford Road, Lynford Arboretum IP26 5HW
Parking
Pay by RingGo, location 31099: £1.80 up to two hours, £2.50 up to four, £3 all day; free to Forestry England members, two accessible bays, no toilets on site
Directions to the start →

Three miles in about an hour and a half on gravel path, grass ride and a stretch of estate track, round the two hundred species of the arboretum, past Lynford Hall and along the lake where hawfinches feed in the yews in winter. It starts at the Forestry England car park on Lynford Road, postcode IP26 5HW, which is £1.80 for two hours and £3 all day by RingGo, free to members, and open dawn to dusk with no toilets. Dogs are allowed throughout, the going is level and firm enough for an elderly dog, the lake gives a safe shallow drink at the bridge, and the arboretum is popular with birdwatchers so a lead in the yew paddocks is courteous.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
REGION · NORFOLK
GRID · 52.4930, 0.6620
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.FORESTRYENGLAND.UK/LYNFORD-ARBORETUM
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High Ash and the Desert Rats walk

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3.8MILES
1:45TIME
25mCLIMB
98%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

Three and three quarter miles, an easy hour and three quarters on level forest rides, following the Desert Rats interpretation trail through the pines where the 7th Armoured Division trained before D-Day, with a Cromwell tank standing at the entrance. Turn off the A1065 Brandon to Swaffham road about two miles beyond Mundford into High Ash, postcode IP26 5BZ, where there are no parking charges at all and the car park is open dawn to dusk. Dogs are welcome and the rides are wide, quiet and safe for off-lead work with good sightlines, but there is no water at all on the site so bring your own, and roe deer are common enough that a whistle beats a shout.

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Lynford Arboretum

IP26 5HW
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Two hundred species of tree planted in the 1950s beside Lynford Water in Thetford Forest, with a lake, a picnic area and hawfinches in the paddocks in winter. Dogs are allowed, and the surfaced rides make this the sensible Brecks walk when everywhere else is under water. There are no toilets on site.

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Lynford Hall

IP26 5HW
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Lynford Hall is a place to stay on Lynford Road, Mundford. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.

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