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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 9.26 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 2h 50 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: No
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 55 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 52 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 90 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 60 m
  • ⚐
    District: North Hertfordshire 
  • ⚑
    Start: N 51.949468° / W 0.259912°
  • ⚑
    End: N 51.949927° / W 0.262117°
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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. 82 m - Continue
  2. 2 : km 0.12 - alt. 77 m - Turn left onto 80
  3. 3 : km 0.21 - alt. 78 m - Turn left onto 73
  4. 4 : km 0.32 - alt. 79 m - Turn left onto Stuart Drive
  5. 5 : km 0.43 - alt. 77 m - Turn left onto Halsey Drive
  6. 6 : km 0.82 - alt. 69 m - Turn left onto Wymondley Road
  7. 7 : km 1.09 - alt. 62 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Wymondley Road
  8. 8 : km 1.18 - alt. 61 m - Continue onto Hitchin Road
  9. 9 : km 1.36 - alt. 62 m - Turn right
  10. 10 : km 2.48 - alt. 82 m - Turn sharp left onto Arch Road
  11. 11 : km 2.83 - alt. 74 m - At roundabout, take exit 1
  12. 12 : km 2.87 - alt. 74 m - Turn slight left onto Public Bridleway 16
  13. 13 : km 3.42 - alt. 71 m - Continue
  14. 14 : km 4.13 - alt. 90 m - Turn left onto Ashbrook Lane
  15. 15 : km 4.13 - alt. 90 m - Turn right
  16. 16 : km 4.6 - alt. 76 m - Turn right onto London Road, B656
  17. 17 : km 4.62 - alt. 76 m - Turn left onto Half Hankerchief Lane
  18. 18 : km 4.79 - alt. 79 m - Turn right
  19. 19 : km 4.97 - alt. 83 m - Turn left onto Waterdell Lane
  20. 20 : km 5.38 - alt. 81 m - Continue onto Maydencroft Lane
  21. 21 : km 5.93 - alt. 86 m - Turn right
  22. 22 : km 6.71 - alt. 86 m - Turn right onto Priory Way
  23. 23 : km 6.75 - alt. 88 m - Turn left
  24. 24 : km 7.01 - alt. 89 m - Turn left onto Gosmore Road
  25. 25 : km 7.19 - alt. 87 m - Continue onto Public Footpath 43
  26. 26 : km 7.22 - alt. 86 m - Continue
  27. 27 : km 7.54 - alt. 72 m - Continue onto Park Street, B656
  28. 28 : km 7.71 - alt. 65 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Queen Street
  29. 29 : km 7.73 - alt. 65 m - Continue onto Queen Street, B656
  30. 30 : km 7.74 - alt. 65 m - Turn right
  31. 31 : km 7.81 - alt. 65 m - Turn right onto Queen Street, B656
  32. 32 : km 8.27 - alt. 65 m - Continue onto Walsworth Road, B656
  33. 33 : km 8.66 - alt. 66 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Walsworth Road, B656
  34. 34 : km 8.71 - alt. 66 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Highbury Road
  35. 35 : km 8.74 - alt. 67 m - Turn left onto Benslow Lane
  36. 36 : km 9.22 - alt. 88 m - Turn slight left
  37. E : km 9.26 - alt. 84 m

Useful Information

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Walking Preston and Hitch Wood, Chilterns

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↔5.09 km ↗+35 m ↘-35 m ◔1h 35 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Preston (Hertfordshire)

A short circuit from Preston village through Hitch Wood, one of the finest woods in the North Chilterns. Worth following for spectacular bluebells in spring or as a pre-pub leg stretch.

Walking Around St Pauls Walden

Association or club
Around St Pauls Walden
↔9.43 km ↗+92 m ↘-92 m ◔2h 55 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Langley (Hertfordshire)

A circuit around the village of St Paul’s Walden passing through some of the finest woodland in the North Chilterns and the picturesque parkland surrounding the grand houses of Stagenhoe and St Paul’s Walden Bury. The bluebells in Hitch Wood are spectacular in spring!

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 Explore South and East areas of Stondon

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↔7.32 km ↗+22 m ↘-22 m ◔2h 10 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Stondon (Central Bedfordshire)

This circular walk covers the footpaths of Stondon to the south and east and also strays into Hertfordshire.

Walking From Lower Stondon via Holwell

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↔7.12 km ↗+22 m ↘-22 m ◔2h 05 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Stondon (Central Bedfordshire)

A circular walk visiting the South-Western part from Lower Stondon via Holwell.

Walking Meppershall and Shillington, Stondon

Walker
↔7.51 km ↗+20 m ↘-21 m ◔2h 10 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Stondon (Central Bedfordshire)

This circular walk covers the northern/western footpaths in Stondon and also strays into Meppershall and Shillington.

Walking Cuckolds Cross and Whitwell from St Paul's Walden

Walker
Cuckolds Cross and Whitwell from St Paul's Walden
↔11.03 km ↗+79 m ↘-80 m ◔3h 25 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from St Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire)

This Hertfordshire walk mainly uses old green lanes to go through a varied landscape of fields, woods and hedgerows to arrive at the Holt and then by footpaths to Cuckolds Cross. After that there is a section of larger arable fields where you join the Hertfordshire Way to reach Whitwell, an expanded village with an interesting older centre. The final leg passes through a rare breeds farm and The Bury, birthplace of the late Queen Mother.

Walking End of the Chilterns : Pegsdon Hills & Little Offley

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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.

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