A Pub Walk to the Lion, Debenham, Suffolk - 19th January 2025

It's definitely walking season, as we do a few short morning walks around the local fields. Then Isobel offers to drive for a Sunday pub walk, so we head off to Debenham where we do a shortish three mile circular walk around the village, part of which Nosher last walked back in the late 1990s in order to take photos for a web version of the walk published on the Suffolk County Council website. At the end of the walk we stop at the newly-reopened Lion (formerly Red Lion) on the High Street for a couple of pints of Watts milk stout and a coffee, and after that have a poke around in the church of St. Mary Magdalene.

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The moon rises over Chinner's field

The moon rises over Chinner's field

We spot Lucy the one-eyed cat in Chinner's field

Lucy Cat roams the fields of Suffolk

Another walk on a frosty morning

A tree has fallen over at the Oaksmere

Christmas baubles are still in the trees

A nice morning sky over the back field

There's a hare in the field

A splash of a rainbow

Isobel pauses outside a nice house in Debenham

Looking back at Debenham as we head out

The lane back to Debenham

Horses of the Debenham Hunt head down a track

A curious iron box in a wood

Isobel pauses near a dead tree

There's a stripey cat on the road

Isobel reads a sign at Hoppit Wood

A dog has a swim in Hoppit 'lake'

We walk past the allotments back into Debenham

The perils of obsolete social media

There's a shed on stilts looming over the hedge

Isobel walks the path alongside Water Lane

Debenham's High Street

Henry Abbott Hardware, since 1707

Isobel has a coffee in the Lion pub

The bar of the Lion - formerly Red Lion

The impressive fireplace of the Debenham Lion

The former Angel pub, seen through the window

Pub menus and a candle

The old Angel pub in Debenham

There's an impressive carved timber support

Isobel heads off up the street

Debenham's K6 phonebox

A coaching arch in the Deben Coffee House

Isobel outside Swan House and Garden

There's a particularly giant basket on the street

The curious Number 2 Gracechurch Street

Debenham's fish and chip shop

The nave of St. Mary Magdalene, Debenham

An unusual Victorian brick floor

A 14th C piscina, with a bishop's head

1992 stained glass, designed by Rowland Warboys

More traditional High Victorian stained glass

Glass from 1909, dedicated to William and Mary Dove

The three-lock mediaeval parish chest

Isobel in the graveyard of St. Mary

The architecture mash-up that is St. Mary

The grand Ancient Order of Forresters building