Due to continuation of temperatures beyond my endurance I am again drawing from the archives for this week’s post. While those archives are deep, walks rich in butterflies, dragons and damsels are less common. So forgive me for drawing on a walk that’s not that long past. Enough preamble, let’s go rambling…
Date: 26th August 2022. Destination: Tunstall Mills (more about them when we reach them)
26th August 2022
Setting the scene: We start at Acle, passing again through our favourite wetland wood. The morning blesses us with the best of lights. It streams through foliage and creates heavenly spaces
26th August 2022
26th August 2022
We cross Acle marsh, and out the other side 🔼 delighted to see these fleeing deer, and for once with quick enough reflexes to photograph them (forgive the poor focus). 🔽 The farm lane is called the Knoll. I’ve only recently discovered that
26th August 2022
26th August 2022
From farm lane to an actual road. Yes, this is an actual road. The original Road Less Travelled! 🔼🔽 It gives access to the fields either side – and to the mills
26th August 2022
26th August 2022
Tunstall Dyke Tower Mill: Although this solidly brick-built tower mill design was introduced to England in C13th, it wasn’t brought into use as a drainage mill until in C18th. The wind turned the sails, the sails turned the shaft, the shaft turned either an Archimedes screw or a scoop wheel. Lo, water is lifted and moved from here to there. That tower mill is so ivy-clad as to be barely visible on our visit in 2022 🔼🔽
26th August 2022
28th March 2017
The almost naked tower mill on our visit back in 2017! 🔼
26th August 2022
These mills sit close to the rail line and are visible from A47 (aka Acle Straight) although only fanatics like me take notice of them 🔼🔽
26th August 2022
Tunstall Dyke Smock Mill, the only surviving drainage smock mill in Norfolk. Built around 1900, it was restored in 1994. When we visit in 2022 we can reach no closer than this due to the footpath being lost beneath 6′ high stinging nettles 🔼🔽 However, on my first visit in 2017, this was that mill
28th March 2017
That’s all for now, hope you enjoyed. More photos on Tuesday. And don’t forget Friday Fliers (we had a good harvest on this walk!)
crispina kemp 
What a glorious place for a stroll. I can almost hear and smell the first photo!
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Five miles round trip, I wouldn’t exactly call it a stroll. But well worth it. Glad you enjoyed it
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They are all breathtaking! My favorite is the first picture of the tower!
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Thank you, Rene. I had to include the 2017 photo, the difference in ivy coverage is amazing
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Yes, that’s what I loved, the ivy around it–gorgeous!! Have a blessed day!
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Thank you. And may the world treat well with you 💖
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Thank you muchly!💖
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💖💖💖
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Thank you for sharing these pictures Crispina. 💚💚💚💚
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As you know, Sadje, always my pleasure 🥰🥰🥰
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You’re welcome
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🙏😃💖💖💖
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Very interesting Crispina, thank you!
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Thank you, Frank, for finding it interesting 🙏🥰
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Gorgeous photos, Crispina! You’re wise to stay out of the heat; I can’t take it either. 🥵
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Thank you. My usual reaction is sudden total exhaustion, collapse, leave me here, I want to sleep. Obviously, that can’t happen. I have been rescued once or twice, but the further from habitation, the less likely that is
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I love my alone time but I won’t walk alone if there’s any chance I might pass out. Not my idea of a good time 😂
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That’s one reason I don’t walk alone anymore. That, and the helpless state I was left in when my knee decided to go sideways and I wanted to go forward.
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Oooh, my stomach just did a little flip. I know that feeling.
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