Chillesford church in the sun
We were back on the hunt for treasure at the weekend. Yesterday afternoon we hunted out a cache in Chillesford, 16 miles from Ipswich. A very quiet, small church and graveyard sat atop a hill, proudly looking down on a perfectly round pond below, complete with rickety bridge. The weather was better than we had been expecting, too, with early spring sunshine beating down on the first day after the clocks went forward.
En route to nearby Sudbourne, we were looking to find Captain’s Wood, of which we’d heard many tales. A wooded area of countryside, complete with fallow deer and endangered bats, exploration was to be the name of the game.
But, we were off the beaten track a little, and ended up back in Orford, standing on the earthworks which surround the castle, looking out on the Ness, and its atomic weapon testing ‘pagodas’. Always pleasant, we were glad to be out in the countryside once again, as we’ve not tramped out in the fields for a while. We were even back in time for a coffee on the fast-developing Ipswich waterfront.
As for Captain’s Wood, another time maybe. I don’t know if its named after a long-forgotten seafarer, or even a local canine beast, but its mystery is making it even more mysterious…