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Rendlesham Forest – Rendlesham Forest Trails loop from Boyton

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Rendlesham Forest – Rendlesham Forest Trails loop from Boyton

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Rendlesham Forest – Rendlesham Forest Trails loop from Boyton

02:24

28.5km

100m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 8, 2026

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Your route passes through a protected area

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Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Waypoints

Start point

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1.87 km

St Andrew the Fisherman Sculpture, Capel St Andrew

Highlight • Structure

Created for the Millennium, a superb steel sculpture in the parish on the road to Butley. It shows St Andrew the fisherman, with a catch of herrings and eels. At …

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4.19 km

Coffee Truck in Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Highlight • Cafe

4.30 km

Rendlesham Forest Parking Area

Highlight • Rest Area

Toilets and Visitor centre with free forest map guides

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4.32 km

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

Highlight • Trail

Rendlesham Forest was planted as commercial woodland in the 1920s.

The forest was the setting for a well-known UFO incident in 1980. Servicemen at RAF Woodbridge saw lights in the …

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4.55 km

Rendlesham Forest

Highlight • Forest

Lots of fun sandy trails in the forest

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17.0 km

Rendlesham UFO Sculpture

Highlight • Monument

After the first sightings in the 1980's near Woodbridgr Air Base the final resting place of the extraterrestrial object has been identified.

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17.5 km

Rendlesham Forest

Highlight • Forest

Rendelsham Forest surrounds the Woodbridge Airfield. It's 15 square km are managed by the Forestry Commission. In 1980 there were claims of UFO sightings in the forest. Take a tour …

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19.4 km

Rendlesham Forest Trails

Highlight • Cycleway

Brilliant network of forest trails in Rendlesham around the Woodbridge Airfield. Extensive and well signed cycle trails and footpaths too which are ace for kids. A gravel rider's paradise!

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28.5 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

13.9 km

8.02 km

4.70 km

1.15 km

821 m

Surfaces

21.5 km

6.30 km

587 m

206 m

Elevation

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Weather

Saturday 16 May

16°C

9°C

21 %

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Rendlesham Forest – Rendlesham Forest Trails loop from Boyton

St Andrew the Fisherman Sculpture, Capel St Andrew

Coffee Truck in Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Rendlesham Forest Parking Area

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

Rendlesham Forest

Rendlesham UFO Sculpture

Rendlesham Forest

Rendlesham Forest Trails

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