One of them had informed me of the annual springclean at Wantisden, which is where I was heading. The sky was clear blue, but there has been a lot of rain, and lots of the little roads were flooded. However, on a bike you can go through floods that cars won't brave, so I just put my feet up and cut a swathe. The wind was very strong from the south west. I was heading south west for the next 30 miles.
Wantisden church is located in fields about three quarters of a mile from the nearest road.
This is not that unusual in Suffolk, and I can think of ten others that are equally remote. What makes it remarkable however, is its location. It has always been remote, there has never been a village of Wantisden. But until the 1930s there were two little cottages about 400 yards north of the church, by a bend in the little river. They were called Bent Waters Cottages.