One of the walks my friend Heather and I had planned to do from a guide book was unexpectedly abandoned – because the footpaths had been swamped by the eroding coastline. We improvised, thanks to Heather’s brilliant map reading, and had a very pleasant walk around Blythburgh during our annual Suffolk walking weekend. I noticed a mysterious tombstone in the village churchyard marking the death of Charles Montague, “A Valiant Pilgrim”, with an engraved open book giving us a clue about his love of literature, but nobody I spoke to there seemed to know who he was. And I wondered who left the fresh African violet at the foot of his grave…

Blythburgh

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