Park your car in Chingford Plain car park (you can also start the walk from Hill Wood car park if you want).
(S/E) Take the path on the left leading to the woods. Enter the woods until you reach the first junction.
(1) Ignore the yellow arrow in front of you but bear right.
(2) Follow this path for one kilometre until you reach another junction (notice a signpost with a yellow arrow on the right). Go straight ahead continuing until you join a wonderful ancient oak tree (Grimston's Oak).
(3) Go past this characteristic tree and bear left at the fork. Then, continue straight at the next junction and again straight at the second one ignoring a red arrow.
(4) When the path leaves the woods and leads to Fairmead Bottom, turn left towards the large concrete path.
(5) You join Fairmead Road and go past a car park next to the gate n°89. Continue straight until you join Hill Wood car park.
(6) Before you enter the car park (in front of the metallic barrier), bear left to the non-well marked path for almost 100 metres. Turn left when you reach the large path. Continue slightly down Epping Forest Centenary Walk for almost half a mile. Then, the main path bends right and left (ignore grassy paths around you) and continues until a junction with 3 ways.
(7) Turn right going across Almshouse Plain for 450 metres.
(8) When you reach a T-junction at the end of this plain, turn left to the well-marked path in the woods. Go straight for 500 metres before you turn left at the fork. Continue the main path for one kilometre before you reach a perpendicular path next to Bury Road. Turn to the left and go straight until you reach Chingford Plain and the car park.(S/E)
