[1] Leaving the car park, cross the road into the drive opposite. Turn immediately left and follow the grassy path behind the hedge to a driveway. Turn right onto a permissive path/driveway. Continue along here to the end. You will see some wooden steps slightly to your right leading up to a small wood. Keeping left, follow path ahead with a row of trees to your left and a field to your right. At the T junction bear left at Post J and follow the path to the road ahead. Turn right and follow road to a road junction.
[2] With the Four Horseshoes Pub on your right, turn right and walk ahead along the road (no footpath). When the road swings sharply to the left turn off right into Clay Street. This is a quiet lane with vehicle access only to each property. Continue along Clay Street for some way, just under 1500m. At the junction of two footpaths take the path to the right and with a row of trees and a ditch to your left, follow the grassy path to the wood ahead passing post E on your left before entering the wood. Follow the path through the wood and continue ahead passing Little Swattesfield Hall on your left (no name shown). Continue ahead along a concrete and grassy drive to the road ahead.
[3] Cross over the road to enter a wooded area. Go ahead and turn right at footpath junction. Continue along the path through the wood to post D on the right. Go down steps on your left leading to a stream. Cross over the bridge and follow the path to a junction. Turn left along a tree lined path to another path junction. Turn right and continue through the wood and at the next junction of paths turn left along a wide track. Just before an open area turn right, passing a pond on your right. Continue along the wide path through the wood until you reach the first junction (post T on the left).
[4] At post T turn right to the Walled Garden, turning left, then right and then right again to follow boundary of the Walled Garden (keeping wall on your right) giving you the opportunity to visit the garden. Continue ahead along tarmac path back to the car park and perhaps a cup of tea at the Cafe.
You can extend the walk to visit St Mary's church at Thornham Parva, one of Suffolk's most special churches with the splendid mediaeval retable and the burial place of Basil Spence the architect of Coventry cathedral.
To extend the walk, do not turn right at post T but continue straight ahead to meet a gravelled track. Bear left on the gravelled track and after a few metres turn left at a T junction (again a gravelled track) and continue until you reach a permissive path at post O. Turn right here, walk through the wood and follow the path round the edge of the field (ignore the plank bridge and the gap in the hedge on the left - all in connection with the public path joining). Shortly after the path swings left and immediately right and then continues along to the road.Turn right at the junction with a public footpath and continue along to the road. Cross the road, turn right and in approximately 50m turn left along a grassy path to the church on your left. Return on the same path back to post T and then follow the above route back to the car park.