Hitchstev4

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 16.55 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 5h 05 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: No
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 123 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 91 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 151 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 62 m
  • ⚐
    District: North Hertfordshire 
  • ⚑
    Start: N 51.953101° / W 0.263069°
  • ⚑
    End: N 51.90173° / W 0.207272°
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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.

Add waypoints by clicking on the map.

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. 66 m - Start on 1
  2. 2 : km 0.01 - alt. 66 m - Turn left
  3. 3 : km 0.01 - alt. 66 m - Turn right
  4. 4 : km 0.05 - alt. 67 m - Turn right
  5. 5 : km 0.13 - alt. 67 m - Turn slight right onto Station Approach
  6. 6 : km 0.17 - alt. 66 m - Turn left onto Walsworth Road, B656
  7. 7 : km 0.58 - alt. 66 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Walsworth Road, B656
  8. 8 : km 0.9 - alt. 66 m - Keep right onto Walsworth Road, B656
  9. 9 : km 0.98 - alt. 65 m - Turn right onto Hermitage Road
  10. 10 : km 1.05 - alt. 62 m - Turn left
  11. 11 : km 1.19 - alt. 62 m - Turn left
  12. 12 : km 1.19 - alt. 62 m - Turn right
  13. 13 : km 1.2 - alt. 62 m - Turn slight right
  14. 14 : km 1.28 - alt. 62 m - Turn sharp left
  15. 15 : km 1.28 - alt. 62 m - Turn right
  16. 16 : km 1.29 - alt. 62 m - Turn right
  17. 17 : km 1.31 - alt. 64 m - Turn right
  18. 18 : km 1.35 - alt. 66 m - Turn right onto Queen Street, B656
  19. 19 : km 1.62 - alt. 65 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Park Street, B656
  20. 20 : km 1.8 - alt. 72 m - Keep right
  21. 21 : km 2.1 - alt. 86 m - Turn right
  22. 22 : km 2.11 - alt. 86 m - Turn left
  23. 23 : km 2.13 - alt. 86 m - Turn left
  24. 24 : km 2.32 - alt. 76 m - Turn left
  25. 25 : km 2.65 - alt. 81 m - Turn right
  26. 26 : km 2.87 - alt. 70 m - Turn left
  27. 27 : km 2.92 - alt. 76 m - Turn right
  28. 28 : km 3.03 - alt. 82 m - Keep left
  29. 29 : km 3.13 - alt. 85 m - Turn right
  30. 30 : km 3.15 - alt. 83 m - Turn left
  31. 31 : km 3.43 - alt. 87 m - Turn right
  32. 32 : km 3.51 - alt. 90 m - Turn right onto Tatmorehills Lane
  33. 33 : km 5.76 - alt. 151 m - Turn slight left onto Charlton Road
  34. 34 : km 5.8 - alt. 150 m - Keep right
  35. 35 : km 6.55 - alt. 141 m - Turn left
  36. 36 : km 7.13 - alt. 141 m - Turn right onto Butchers Lane
  37. 37 : km 7.25 - alt. 136 m - Turn sharp left onto Church Lane
  38. 38 : km 7.53 - alt. 140 m - Turn right
  39. 39 : km 7.55 - alt. 140 m - Turn right onto Church Lane
  40. 40 : km 7.57 - alt. 140 m - Turn right onto School Lane
  41. 41 : km 8.39 - alt. 148 m - Turn right onto Hitchwood Lane
  42. 42 : km 8.71 - alt. 139 m - Keep left onto Hitchwood Lane
  43. 43 : km 8.95 - alt. 129 m - Keep right
  44. 44 : km 8.98 - alt. 127 m - Turn slight left
  45. 45 : km 9.68 - alt. 105 m - Turn right onto Hitchwood Lane
  46. 46 : km 9.7 - alt. 105 m - Turn left onto Whitwell Road, B651
  47. 47 : km 9.96 - alt. 101 m - Turn left
  48. 48 : km 11.21 - alt. 80 m - Turn right onto London Road, B656
  49. 49 : km 11.27 - alt. 80 m - Turn left
  50. 50 : km 11.91 - alt. 113 m - Turn sharp right
  51. 51 : km 12.05 - alt. 109 m - Keep left
  52. 52 : km 13.45 - alt. 121 m - Turn left
  53. 53 : km 13.49 - alt. 121 m - Turn left
  54. 54 : km 13.85 - alt. 121 m - Turn slight left onto Kitching Lane
  55. 55 : km 14.25 - alt. 107 m - Turn slight right onto Redcar Road
  56. 56 : km 14.5 - alt. 102 m - Turn sharp right
  57. 57 : km 14.55 - alt. 102 m - Turn left onto Meadway
  58. 58 : km 14.9 - alt. 96 m - Turn right
  59. 59 : km 15.15 - alt. 93 m - Keep left
  60. 60 : km 15.24 - alt. 92 m - Turn left
  61. 61 : km 15.25 - alt. 93 m - Turn slight left
  62. 62 : km 15.29 - alt. 93 m - Turn right
  63. 63 : km 15.46 - alt. 94 m - Turn slight right
  64. 64 : km 15.55 - alt. 92 m - Turn left
  65. 65 : km 15.68 - alt. 89 m - Turn sharp left
  66. 66 : km 15.78 - alt. 91 m - Turn sharp left onto Argyle Way
  67. 67 : km 15.84 - alt. 92 m - Turn right onto Argyle Way
  68. 68 : km 16.01 - alt. 91 m - Keep right onto Argyle Way
  69. 69 : km 16.29 - alt. 92 m - Turn left
  70. 70 : km 16.32 - alt. 91 m - Turn left
  71. 71 : km 16.33 - alt. 91 m - Turn left
  72. 72 : km 16.45 - alt. 92 m - Turn left onto 4, 4
  73. E : km 16.55 - alt. 91 m

Useful Information

Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.

Other walks in the area

Walking Preston and Hitch Wood, Chilterns

Association or club
↔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 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 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 Explore South and East areas of Stondon

Walker
↔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

Walker
↔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 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 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.

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