Shotley Country Park

Easiest parking to start this looping walk is by the pier ruins and walk through on the wide path between the foreshore and houses. Then it's a narrow path along the foreshore until you reach then where it pops round to the fields. You then have the choice of long coastal path or turn right up an inclined path that takes you back through the woodland and along the top. Several benches and viewpoints along the way. Pub by the pier, with outside seating is your reward. Public toilet nearby.

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Area of outstanding beauty Shotley Heritage, plenty of good views on clear days and can see Felixstowe Docks as well as Harwich.

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SHOTLEY: FORSAKEN HEADLAND Leaving the town of Ipswich and we drive under the Orwell Bridge. This is a huge concrete span across River Orwell’s estuary. We enjoyed a bumper coffee and cake at the Suffolk Food Hall. We are now on a peninsular of Shotley. Shotley village was once home of HMS Ganges a navel-training establishment. In Shotley Village gaze out across the water and see two ports for the price of one view: Felixstowe and Harwich, Suffolk and Essex. Along the waterfronts gigantic container ships with Asiatic names bearing impossibly large numbers of containers on deck. Further along flat farmland land run up to the Orwell estuary’s edge, patrolled by birdlife: Curlew, Oystercatchers and cackling gulls. Sailing boats rest up for the winter.

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Mature and organic woodland,with stunning views over the river Stour and Harwich and lots of little special places to discover

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