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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 5.03 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 1h 30 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: No
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 10 m
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    Vertical drop: - 10 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 167 m
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    Lowest point: 155 m
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Description

Start the plot by indicating the starting point. If you know the exact car parking situation, please explain how to park.
If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S : km 0 - alt. 165 m - Start near 18 Swifts Green Road, Luton, Luton LU2 8BN, UK
  2. 2 : km 0 - alt. 165 m - Walk north-west on Swifts Green Rd towards Swifts Green Cl
  3. 3 : km 0.58 - alt. 167 m - Walk north-east on Swifts Green Rd towards Mount Grace Rd
  4. 4 : km 0.6 - alt. 167 m - Turn right onto Mount Grace Rd
  5. 5 : km 0.87 - alt. 165 m - Turn right onto Ravenbank Rd
  6. 6 : km 0.9 - alt. 165 m - Turn left onto Crowland Rd
  7. 7 : km 1.14 - alt. 164 m - Walk south-east on Crowland Rd towards Putteridge Rd
  8. 8 : km 1.17 - alt. 164 m - Turn right onto Putteridge Rd
  9. 9 : km 1.18 - alt. 164 m - Turn left onto Birling Dr
  10. 10 : km 1.23 - alt. 163 m - Walk south-east on Birling Dr towards Rogate Rd
  11. 11 : km 1.58 - alt. 160 m - Walk south-east on Birling Dr
  12. 12 : km 1.73 - alt. 160 m - Turn left towards Telscombe Way
  13. 13 : km 1.81 - alt. 160 m - Turn right onto Telscombe Way
  14. 14 : km 1.83 - alt. 160 m - Walk south-west on Telscombe Way towards Roedean Cl
  15. 15 : km 2.24 - alt. 158 m - Walk south-east on Telscombe Way towards Keymer Cl
  16. 16 : km 2.44 - alt. 158 m - Walk east on Telscombe Way towards Ilford Cl
  17. 17 : km 2.54 - alt. 157 m - Turn left onto Hayling Dr
  18. 18 : km 2.72 - alt. 156 m - Walk north-east on Hayling Dr towards Copthorne
  19. 19 : km 2.99 - alt. 160 m - Turn left onto Telscombe Way
  20. 20 : km 3.09 - alt. 160 m - Walk south-west on Telscombe Way
  21. 21 : km 3.11 - alt. 160 m - Turn right towards Birling Dr
  22. 22 : km 3.18 - alt. 160 m - Turn right towards Birling Dr
  23. 23 : km 3.31 - alt. 160 m - Continue onto Birling Dr
  24. 24 : km 3.43 - alt. 160 m - Walk north on Birling Dr towards Pevensey Cl
  25. 25 : km 3.74 - alt. 164 m - Turn right onto Putteridge Rd
  26. 26 : km 3.74 - alt. 164 m - Turn left onto Crowland Rd
  27. 27 : km 4.01 - alt. 165 m - Turn left onto Ravenbank Rd
  28. 28 : km 4.04 - alt. 165 m - Walk south-west on Ravenbank Rd towards Corncrake Cl
  29. 29 : km 4.37 - alt. 166 m - Turn left onto Swifts Green Rd
  30. 30 : km 4.41 - alt. 165 m - Walk south-west on Swifts Green Rd towards Wood Green Rd
  31. 31 : km 4.45 - alt. 165 m - Turn left onto Wood Green Rd
  32. 32 : km 4.74 - alt. 165 m - Walk south on Wood Green Rd towards Swifts Green Rd
  33. 33 : km 4.77 - alt. 165 m - Turn right onto Swifts Green Rd
  34. 34 : km 4.88 - alt. 165 m - Walk north-west on Swifts Green Rd towards Swifts Green Cl
  35. 35 : km 4.95 - alt. 165 m - Walk north-west on Swifts Green Rd towards Swifts Green Cl
  36. 36 : km 4.99 - alt. 165 m - Walk north-west on Swifts Green Rd
  37. E : km 5.03 - alt. 165 m

Useful Information

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Other walks in the area

Walking Escape to Lilley, Chilterns

Association or club
Escape to Lilley, Chilterns
↔8.60 km ↗+96 m ↘-96 m ◔2h 45 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Borough of Luton

It is surprising how easy it is to escape from urban Luton to quiet open countryside. This walk is a short circuit from Bushmead to Lilley and back.

Particularly lovely late on a June evening, during the summer when the fields are full of ripe crops or in winter to blow away the cobwebs.

Walking Trains, Planes and Quiet Lanes

Association or club
Trains, Planes and Quiet Lanes
↔11.35 km ↗+80 m ↘-76 m ◔3h 30 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Borough of Luton

Walk from Luton Airport Parkway station along the disused railway to Welwyn before climbing to Chiltern Green and returning via a ruined Tudor castle and the airport perimeter.

Walking Great Offley to Charlton

Association or club
↔9.84 km ↗+100 m ↘-103 m ◔3h 05 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Offley (Hertfordshire)

A moderate stile-free walk The walk starts in the village of Great Offley, heading south-west along the ridge above Hitchin before descending to the small hamlet of Charlton. From there, there is a steady, scenic climb back to Offley.

Walking Pegsdon and Deacon Hills

Walker
Pegsdon and Deacon Hills
↔5.26 km ↗+99 m ↘-103 m ◔1h 45 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)

A circuit from Pegsdon, through the Pegsdon Hills Nature Reserve to Deacon Hill with its ancient earthworks. Return past a mature beech wood and Knocking Hoe reserve.

Walking Pegsdon and Deacon Hills, Chilterns

Association or club
Pegsdon and Deacon Hills, Chilterns
↔7.88 km ↗+146 m ↘-140 m ◔2h 40 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)

This route offers the walker some of the most stunning views in the whole of the Chilterns and visits a number of important wildlife sites featured in the book by Gay Beattie "The Pilgrim’s Progress Wild Flowers and Where to Find Them in The Chilterns." Pegsdon and Deacon Hills were a favourite of the writer and preacher John Bunyan who referred to them in as the "Delectable Mountains".

Walking End of the Chilterns : Pegsdon Hills & Little Offley

Walker
End of the Chilterns : Pegsdon Hills & Little Offley
↔15.28 km ↗+231 m ↘-226 m ◔5h 00 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)

This is a surprisingly hilly walk for this general area, being the northern end of the Chilterns AONB, mostly through rolling farmland, with some wonderful views across the flatlands of south Bedfordshire to the north, especially if the air is clear. Most of it is along the edges of/through fields, along grass & hard-surfaced paths & tracks. There are two tree-covered 'alleys'. It passes a large late-Tudor manor house. You will walk part of the Icknield Way & visit Pegsdon Hills Nature Reserve.

Walking Telegraph Hill & Pegsdon from Hexton

Walker
↔8.02 km ↗+124 m ↘-127 m ◔2h 40 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Hexton (Hertfordshire)

Starting from Hexton this walk on the borders of Befordshire and Hertfordshire includes the attractive downland between Telegraph and Deacon Hills and a section of the Icknield Way.

Walking From Hexton including Lilley Hoo

Walker
↔17.71 km ↗+160 m ↘-164 m ◔5h 30 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Hexton (Hertfordshire)

Starting from Hexton this walk on the borders of Befordshire and Hertfordshire offers mile after mile of beautiful countryside with the hilltops steeped in ancient history. The route includes sections of the Icknield and John Bunyan Ways.

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