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Directions

NOTICE:

ROADWORKS STARTING MONDAY 17 FEBRUARY – MONDAY 5 MAY AFFECTING A134 SOUTHBOUND FROM BURY ST EDMUNDS TO SUDBURY.

Please read the directions below which may differ from your usual route to us.

From Bury St Edmunds

WEEKDAYS (MONDAYS 5.00AM - FRIDAYS 8.00 PM)

ON THE A134 SOUTHWARDS TOWARDS SUDBURY, 2-WAY TRAFFIC LIGHTS WILL BE INSTALLED NEAR THE HOPKINS HOMES’ DEVELOPMENT.  PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TRAVEL TIME.

From Bury St Edmunds (WEEKDAYS)

Take the A134 towards Sudbury.

Follow the road for about 3 miles. You'll come into the village of Sicklesmere. Drive through the village, passing The Rushbrooke Arms on the left, the Post Office and General Stores on your right. Immediately after the Post Office, take the right turn signposted Great Whelnetham and follow the road up through the village passing the Community Centre on the left and the Primary School/Church on the right.

Continue past the remaining houses for about 1/2 mile until you reach a right-hand turn to Hawstead and Whepsted. Ignore this road but take the concrete private road opposite. There is a sign for the Bow Wow Adventure Playground.

As this road bears sharp left, you'll see a farmhouse behind the hedge. You're here!

Parking is either in bays 1 and 2 in the woodshed at the back of the barn or on the concrete pad in front of the barn in bays 3 and 4.

If you drive past the barn through some farm gates, you've gone too far!

WEEKENDS (FRIDAYS 8.00 PM – MONDAYS 5.00 AM)

THERE WILL BE NO ACCESS TO BOW WOW VIA THE A134 SOUTHBOUND FROM BURY ST EDMUNDS TOWARDS SUDBURY AS IT WILL BE CLOSED TO THROUGH TRAFFIC.  PLEASE IGNORE THE OFFICIAL DIVERSION ROUTE AS IT PLANS TO TAKE YOU ON A 43-MILE DIVERSION VIA ALTERATIVE ‘A’ ROADS.  WE HAVE DEVISED ALTERNATIVE DIRECTIONS TO THE BOW WOW SITE BELOW

OPTION 1 (ACCESS VIA NOWTON)/HAWSTEAD): 

From the A14, take Exit 44 towards Bury St Edmunds.  Take the second exit at the roundabout passing Dobbies Garden Centre on the left and the BP/M&S garage on the right.  At the next roundabout, the 1st exit onto the A134 is CLOSED TO THROUGH TRAFFIC.  Take the 2nd exit onto Cullum Road, immediately followed by the 1st exit at the next roundabout onto Nowton Road towards Nowton Park.  After ¼ mile, the road bears slightly left (Victory Sports Ground is on the left).  Continue on this road for approximately 1 mile passing Nowton Park on the left. Follow the road which bears sharp right signposted Hawstead/Lawshall and continue for approximately 2 miles.  Drive through Hawstead village.  As you approach Hawstead village green, turn left onto Bells Lane (signposted Stanningfield/Great Whelnetham).  If you reach Hawstead Village Hall, you’ve missed the Bells Lane turn). Continue up the hill for approximately a mile. 

At the top of Bells Lane, there is a Y-junction to join Stanningfield Road. Take the right-hand fork and then drive over across Stanningfield Road onto the concrete private driveway opposite (there is sign for the Bow Wow Adventure Playground on the left-hand side of this driveway). Continue along the driveway which bears sharp left after a ¼ mile until you reach a large concrete pad and a barn. Drive to the right of the barn and park in the marked Parking Bays 1 and 2 or Bays 3 and 4 on the concrete pad itself. If you drive past the barn through some farm gates, you’ve gone too far!

OPTION 2 (ACCESS VIA ROUGHAM):

From the A14, take Exit 45. At the roundabout, take the exit to Rougham/ Ravenwood Hall.  Turn left at the T-junction onto Sow Lane and keep on this road for a couple of miles (it becomes Almshouse Road). You will pass Rougham Sports Hall on the left.  Turn left onto Moat Lane. Continue straight on this road for approximately 2 miles, entering Bradfield St George (it becomes Kingshall Street, then Rougham Road). At the T-junction, turn right onto Church Road (signposted Bury St Edmunds) for ¾ mile.  At T-junction, turn right signpostged Sicklesmere/Bury St Edmunds. Stay on this road for approximately 2 miles, driving through Little Whelnetham.  At the next T-junction turn left onto the A134 (signposted Sudbury/Great Whelnetham).  Sicklesmere Post Office is on the right.  Immediately turn right signposted Great Whelnetham and follow the road up through the village passing the Community Centre on the left and the Primary School/Church on the right.

Continue past the remaining houses for about ½ mile until you reach a right-hand turn to Hawstead and Whepstead (Bells Lane). Ignore this road but take the concrete private driveway opposite. (There is sign for the Bow Wow Adventure Playground on the left-hand side of this driveway.)  As this private road bears sharp left, continue along the driveway until you reach a large concrete pad and a barn. Drive to the right of the barn and park in the marked Parking Bays 1 and 2 or the ‘Holding Bays 3 and 4 on the concrete pad itself. If you drive past the barn through some farm gates, you’ve gone too far!

Please allow extra travel time.

From Sudbury

Take the A134 towards Bury St Edmunds.

Just past the right-hand turn onto A1141 to Cockfield and Lavenham, take the left-hand turn towards Stanningfield and drive for 1.7 miles. As you reach the village sing for Great Whelnetham, take the right-hand turn onto a concrete private drive, opposite the left-hand turn signposted Hawstead/Whepsted.

As this road bears sharp left, you'll see a farmhouse behind the hedge. You're here!

Parking is either in bays 1 and 2 in the woodshed at the back of the barn or on the concrete pad in front of the barn in bays 3 and 4.

If you drive past the barn through some farm gates, you've gone too far!