Outdoor Activities

The launch of the highly exciting and innovative SlowWays project has unforunately been postponed, because of Tier 4 restrictions and now the National Lockdown 3 as well as for our general health and safety. More information to follow. 

"We had planned to launch in the last week of January 2021, but due to the current situation with Covid-19 are delaying until conditions improve. We will post here as soon as we have a new launch date." SlowWays website

"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." – Doug Larson This section has a list of Lowestoft Allotments, some community groups who are allotment focussed, and some contact details.    Community Groups like allotments - they produce food, but more importantly, they grow people.   Women Like Me Community Care Farm Pathways Care Farm is just up the road too   Local Allotments For details of allotments in the Lowestoft area, please contact the Lowestoft and District Allotments Association (L&DAA) on 07778 516304. Added: 23 September, 2023

Most Easterly is already planning 2021's BIG LUNCH. Big Lunch is a nationwide event for the weekend of 5/6th June 2021. It's a simple idea. People make food, bring it along to the Triangle Sails. People eat, meet, and talk. It's open to everyone. We all get to know our neighbours, and make new friends (not guaranteed, of course). So Most Easterly has booked the Sails for Saturday 6th June. All we need now are tables, chairs, decorations, and food. Use our contact form to get in touch.

Allotments
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." – Doug Larson

"A cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education." by Mark Twain

This section has a list of Lowestoft Allotments, some community groups who are allotment focussed, and some contact details.

Community Groups like allotments - they produce food, but more importantly, they grow people.

Welcome to the Scores Trail. This booklet has been designed to help you understand a little more of Lowestoft history and of the significance of these ancient pathways leading down to the sea. You can find your way around the trial by reading the map in the attached Ledford leaflet or by following the red herring way markers. Lowestoft was originally built on top of the cliffs overlooking the North Sea. The schools that run down these clips were ways to access from the high ground to the beach area. Added: 23 September, 2023

(Darren has ideas on this!) I love Ness Point but I am in minority because I am a nerd and just wax lyrical about all the maths I could do with kids down there - most people don’t appreciate this so I will stop there… but I still want to promote it. Again, another contention because previous MP (BB) did not want to promote ‘Lowestoft: The Most Easterly Town’ nor ‘Ness Point - Britain’s most easterly point’ (Land’s End? S+W John O’Groats? N so why not E?).

The Scores are a series of narrow lanes and steep pathways running from Lowestoft High Street to the site of the town's former beach village. They formed a vital link between the town, which was built on a cliff, and the village, which had developed as a result of the fishing industry. With herring one of the most profitable exports, many workers came to live on the High Street and would have used the scores to go and work in the beach village processing fish. Added: 23 September, 2023

I have been thinking a lot about this in lockdown. I only keep marginally sane because I try to walk or cycle by the sea every day. All the research says that most people need timetables/structure to keep exercising and I know that my resolutions easily slip when I don’t HAVE to do it whereas if I know I am meeting someone at a particular time then I keep to it.

Murmeration over Ellough, Beccles, Suffolk, Thursday 17th Dec 2020. Music by John Ireland  

High Street - Ness Point Circular Walk 1 Distance: 1.4k Difficulty: Easy Terrain: Pavements, concrete Obstacles: Steepish road descent/ascent (Herring Fishery Score - no footpath); galvanised steps (Hamilton Road); ramp (Hamilton Road; crossing busy roads The walk starts at the entrance to Lowestoft's Historic High Street. Cross at the Pelican Crossing, then turn right down Herring Fishery Score (link to article) with the Wheatsheaf pub on your left. The pub's closed for the duration of the CV pandemic. Added: 23 September, 2023