Hitchin 8k

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 8.25 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 2h 25 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 24 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 23 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 90 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 63 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/E : km 0 - alt. 68 m - Start on
  2. 2 : km 0 - alt. 68 m - Turn sharp left onto Old Park Road, A505
  3. 3 : km 0.01 - alt. 68 m - Turn sharp right onto West Hill
  4. 4 : km 0.58 - alt. 89 m - Turn right onto Lucas Lane
  5. 5 : km 0.68 - alt. 88 m - Turn left onto Gray's Lane
  6. 6 : km 1.18 - alt. 74 m - Turn left onto Upper Tilehouse Street, A505
  7. 7 : km 1.18 - alt. 74 m - Turn right onto Russels Slip
  8. 8 : km 1.26 - alt. 74 m - Turn left onto Wratten Road West
  9. 9 : km 1.28 - alt. 73 m - Turn right onto Meadow Way
  10. 10 : km 1.61 - alt. 70 m - Turn left onto Hawthorn Close
  11. 11 : km 1.74 - alt. 70 m - Turn right onto Hawthorn Close
  12. 12 : km 1.8 - alt. 66 m - Turn right onto Charlton Road
  13. 13 : km 1.93 - alt. 66 m - Turn left onto Charlton Road
  14. 14 : km 2.1 - alt. 67 m - Turn right
  15. 15 : km 2.6 - alt. 72 m - Turn left
  16. 16 : km 2.61 - alt. 72 m - Turn right onto Charlton Road
  17. 17 : km 3.02 - alt. 72 m - Turn left onto Maydencroft Lane
  18. 18 : km 4.51 - alt. 81 m - Turn right onto High Street
  19. 19 : km 5.74 - alt. 87 m - Turn left onto Gosmore Road
  20. 20 : km 5.9 - alt. 85 m - Keep right
  21. 21 : km 6.3 - alt. 65 m - Keep left onto Park Street, B656
  22. 22 : km 6.31 - alt. 65 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bridge Street
  23. 23 : km 6.76 - alt. 73 m - Turn left onto Coopers Alley
  24. 24 : km 6.82 - alt. 72 m - Turn left onto Coopers Alley
  25. 25 : km 6.83 - alt. 72 m - Turn right onto Payne's Park, A505
  26. 26 : km 7.04 - alt. 69 m - Keep right onto Brand Street
  27. 27 : km 7.05 - alt. 69 m - Turn slight left
  28. 28 : km 7.05 - alt. 69 m - Turn left onto Brand Street
  29. 29 : km 7.35 - alt. 67 m - Turn right
  30. 30 : km 7.65 - alt. 70 m - Turn left onto Fishponds Road, A505
  31. 31 : km 7.78 - alt. 69 m - Enter roundabout
  32. 32 : km 8.1 - alt. 67 m - Keep right onto Old Park Road, A505
  33. S/E : km 8.25 - alt. 67 m

Useful Information

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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 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 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 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.

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

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 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".

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