Orange Walk
The Orange Walk passes through the Little Ouse Valley Forest Nature Reserve. This is an ideal place to start your search for forest wildlife. Interpretation boards along the walk explain features of interest to the historian as well as the naturalist.
1) Lychgate - general site information;
2) Little Ouse Meadows - information on the ecology of a rare and interesting habitat;
3) Santon Warren - heathland for the future;
4) Thetford Rare Birds - ornithology of the forest;
5) Blood Hill - prehistoric burial mound;
6) St Helen's Church and Holy Well, Santon.
How to get there:
Orange Walk can be started from St Helens in Thetford Forest Park. Santon Downham and Brandon are the nearest towns or villages.
St Helens picnic site is located on the outskirts of the village of Santon Downham. , From Brandon, take the B1107 towards Thetford. Just outside of Brandon, fork left, signposted Santon Downham and Forest District Offices. Follow this road through the village until you reach the church. Turn left, towards the village shop. Continue on this road, over the river and turn immediately right signposted St Helens Picnic Site.
OS Grid Reference: TL820880