Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

136 Trails 35 POIs 2 Picnic Sites 1 Viewpoint
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Description

Dedham Vale is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Essex-Suffolk border in east England. It comprises the area around the River Stour between Manningtree and Smallbridge Farm, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Bures, including the village of Dedham in Essex. The River Stour is the key landscape focus for the valley, its course is defined by bank-side trees and wet meadows. It supports a variety of riparian (river) habitats. The valley floor has a large areas of functioning floodplain. Water quality is good, meeting levels demanded in regulations. The catchment meets sustainable demands for water supply, flood control and recreational use, whilst retaining an unspoilt character and healthy ecosystem.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Coopers Lane
  • Dazeley's Lane
  • Donkey Lane
  • Essex Way
  • Essex Way (Epping to Stratford St Mary)
  • Essex Way (Stratford St Mary to Ramsey)
  • European walking route E2, UK, East of England
  • Fen Bridge
  • Monk's Lane
  • School Lane
  • St Edmund Way
  • St Edmund's Way
  • Stour & Orwell Walk
  • Stour Valley Path (Stetchworth to Stratford St Mary)
  • Stour Valley Path (Stratford St Mary to Cattawade)

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Bike&Go
  • Co-operative
  • Constable 'The Haywain' veiwing point
  • Dedham Art and Craft Centre
  • East Bergholt Post Office & Stores
  • Essex Rose
  • Flatford Mill
  • Fountain House Tea Room
  • Hall Farm Restaurant & tea Room
  • Le Talbooth
  • Londis
  • Manningtree
  • Milsoms
  • National Trust Tea Room
  • Park Street Stores
  • Polstead Community Shop
  • Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa
  • The Boathouse
  • The Garden Café
  • The Munnings Art Museum
  • The White Hart

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Cmglee https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cmglee_Manningtree_Dedham_Vale.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)