This can be a ride of up to 35 miles for the enthusiastic cyclist but it uses sections on more main roads and so is not suitable for less confident cyclists. Along the route there are 15 of Norfolk’s famous medieval churches.

Sadly, the ferry service is no longer available on this route so it is not possible to cross the river in Horning. However, the route can be completed by riding out through Hoveton and Wroxham and coming back the same way.

(Note: The total distance on this route is 35 miles, but optional shorter rides of 20 and also of 10 miles are detailed.)

Along the waterways of Norfolk and north-east Suffolk there are many round towered churches which are said to date from before the Norman Conquest. In a few cases this is so – perhaps twenty of them are of Saxon origin, but most date from after 1066, the period of ‘Norman’ architecture that had gradually changed to a more ‘English’ style by 1200.