A spare day last weekend got me wondering: what are the least worst daytrip options for a walker based in East Anglia? For these purposes I'll accept East Anglia and most of the East Mids, but not going as far as the Peak District. I'm not expecting to suddenly discover a Norfolk equivalent to the Black Cuillin that I wasn't previously aware of, but it'd be nice to find some day walks that tick the following boxes:
* Reasonably sustained off-road walking with a minimum of jinking in and out of farms, cutting back along roads and so on.
* Varied and interesting, ie not just plodding along a forest track or fenland riverbank with exactly the same view for six hours.
* Some sort of reasonably natural objective, eg getting between two places or following what in these parts passes for a "ridge".
* A view at some point might be nice.
We actually did a chunk of the Icknield Way, from Great Chesterford to Royston, and we've done the Royston to Baldock section in the past as well, and they were both surprisingly decent.