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Minsmere Nature Reserve – View Over Minsmere loop from Minsmere

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Minsmere Nature Reserve – View Over Minsmere loop from Minsmere

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Minsmere Nature Reserve – View Over Minsmere loop from Minsmere

02:09

8.43km

30m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: February 20, 2026

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Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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31 m

National Trust Coastguard Café, Dunwich Heath

Highlight • Cafe

One of the old coastguard cottages on Dunwich Heath operates as a café. This is a National Trust café serving a nice selection of drinks, snacks and cake.

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3.26 km

Minsmere Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural

Cycle through Minsmere nature reserve and head north off road through Dunwich woods.
here you will find lots of bird activity and various bird species to be admired.

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3.64 km

Minsmere RSPB Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural

Minsmere is a RSPB nature reserve wetland area on the Suffolk coast. Look out for avocets, bearded tits and bitterns as well as a host of other birds and otters.

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3.84 km

The Eel's Foot Inn

Highlight • Pub

Adnams pub, open 12-3, 6-11, has an Inn and campsite.

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5.08 km

View Over Minsmere

Highlight • Natural

Can get a little sticky if it's persisted

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5.39 km

Flooded Path in Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Highlight • Trail

6.58 km

Minsmere Sluice

Highlight • Natural Monument

The Minsmere River flows through Suffolk and helps create the wetlands at Minsmere RSPB Reserve.

Minsmere Sluice is tidal and allows the river to flow into the North Sea. The …

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8.17 km

Beach at Sunrise – Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Highlight • Natural

8.43 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.16 km

1.67 km

1.06 km

520 m

Surfaces

3.03 km

2.07 km

1.72 km

1.06 km

444 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Wednesday 6 May

12°C

7°C

8 %

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Minsmere Nature Reserve – View Over Minsmere loop from Minsmere

National Trust Coastguard Café, Dunwich Heath

Minsmere Nature Reserve

Minsmere RSPB Nature Reserve

The Eel's Foot Inn

View Over Minsmere

Flooded Path in Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Minsmere Sluice

Beach at Sunrise – Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

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