About us...

West Suffolk Walks was set up by father and son team, Andrew and Sam Colley. Andrew holds the nationally accredited level 3 awards in Lowland Walk Leadership and Outdoor First Aid and is a qualified wellbeing walks leader working with Feelgood Suffolk Wellbeing Walks and the Suffolk Walking Festival. He has completed many of the great long distance walks in the UK and abroad including  Offa’s Dyke, Coast to Coast, St Edmundbury Way, the East Anglian Coast Path and the Camino Primitivo in Northern Spain. He recently completed  'The Great Chalk Spine of England' walk between Avebury in Wiltshire and the North Norfolk Coast. Andrew is a volunteer surveyor for two sections of the Stour Valley Path. He understands the physical and emotional benefits of walking and loves to share his passion for walking with others. As a qualified lowland walk leader and member of the Mountain Training Association, Andrew holds public and products liability as well as professional indemnity insurance.

Sam Colley has inherited his father’s love of the outdoors and has completed, solo, the 1000 mile Camino de Santiago from Le Puy in France to Santiago de Compostella in North West Spain. He is an arborist and conservation professional and has worked in the UK as well as in Canada, Ireland and Cyprus. He has the Gold D of E award and is training to be a Lowland Walk Leader.

Our walks start at 10:00am either from from Little Bradley (CB9 7JD), or starting and finishing  at a local pub. Email or phone us or keep an eye on our Facebook page for details (West Suffolk Walks | Facebook)

Most of our walks are about 5 to 6 miles in length depending on weather and ground conditions and can be completed in  half a day. The walks are accessible to people with a reasonable level of fitness. You are advised to wear walking shoes or boots or strong training shoes and to bring drinking water, a waterproof jacket, and a light snack. Each walk costs £5.  

Dogs are welcome on our walks but we do of course adhere to the new open country and common land rights, which require that dogs must be kept on a short lead on open access land between 1st March and 31st July and all year round when near farm animals.