Physical Character
The footpath starts from where Low Road takes a right angle bend to continue south. It is the point where from 1878 to 1959 the railway used to run and there was a level crossing. Only the gatekeeper's bungalow remains.
Perhaps Low Road actually follows the route of a former footpath or green lane which has since been widened. The path crosses a cropped field. It appears that the footpath is not regularly re-instated. When the path reaches a green track at TG440174 it continues straight across another cropped field until the track known as Common Road is reached near to Grange Farm. The path crosses that track and continues across a meadow used for grazing until the boundary with Repps Parish is reached.
Historical Ecology
The footpath must be a very ancient one as it would have been the route used by the people living at Grange Farm to go to the Church. Grange Farm is the modern name of a settlement that existed from perhaps pre-Norman times. It was the hamlet of Sco where people had settled on what was the edge of part of the Common. The course of the stream that is the boundary between Martham and Repps may have been wider before the marshes were drained, therefore the path may be where it was dry enough to cross the stream.
