Hitchin - Hitch Wood - Wymondley

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 20.21 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 6h 10 
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    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 144 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 138 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 149 m
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    Lowest point: 57 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. 60 m - Start
  2. 2 : km 0.49 - alt. 57 m - Turn right
  3. 3 : km 0.5 - alt. 57 m - Turn slight right
  4. 4 : km 1.12 - alt. 60 m - Turn right onto Wymondley Road
  5. 5 : km 1.14 - alt. 61 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Wymondley Road
  6. 6 : km 1.31 - alt. 67 m - Turn left
  7. 7 : km 2.17 - alt. 64 m - Turn left
  8. 8 : km 2.47 - alt. 66 m - Turn left
  9. 9 : km 2.5 - alt. 66 m - Keep right
  10. 10 : km 2.53 - alt. 68 m - Turn sharp right
  11. 11 : km 2.58 - alt. 67 m - Turn right onto Stevenage Road, A602
  12. 12 : km 2.63 - alt. 67 m - Turn sharp left onto Ashbrook Lane
  13. 13 : km 3.37 - alt. 85 m - Turn left onto Ashbrook Lane
  14. 14 : km 3.43 - alt. 86 m - Keep left onto Ashbrook Lane
  15. 15 : km 3.53 - alt. 90 m - Turn right
  16. 16 : km 4 - alt. 76 m - Turn right onto London Road, B656
  17. 17 : km 4.02 - alt. 76 m - Turn left onto Half Hankerchief Lane
  18. 18 : km 4.88 - alt. 92 m - Turn left onto St Albans Highway
  19. 19 : km 5.47 - alt. 92 m - Turn right
  20. 20 : km 5.95 - alt. 105 m - Turn slight left onto Preston Road
  21. 21 : km 6.25 - alt. 109 m - Turn right
  22. 22 : km 6.9 - alt. 146 m - Turn left
  23. 23 : km 7.11 - alt. 146 m - Turn left onto Chequers Lane
  24. 24 : km 7.37 - alt. 140 m - Turn slight right onto School Lane
  25. 25 : km 7.44 - alt. 140 m - Turn right onto Church Lane
  26. 26 : km 7.47 - alt. 140 m - Turn left
  27. 27 : km 7.52 - alt. 142 m - Turn right
  28. 28 : km 7.75 - alt. 143 m - Turn left onto Back Lane
  29. 29 : km 7.97 - alt. 145 m - Turn slight right
  30. 30 : km 9.17 - alt. 139 m - Turn left
  31. 31 : km 9.3 - alt. 140 m - Keep right
  32. 32 : km 9.31 - alt. 140 m - Turn sharp right
  33. 33 : km 10.11 - alt. 139 m - Turn slight left onto Hitchwood Lane
  34. 34 : km 10.48 - alt. 148 m - Turn right
  35. 35 : km 12.19 - alt. 80 m - Turn sharp right onto London Road, B656
  36. 36 : km 12.4 - alt. 80 m - Turn left
  37. 37 : km 13.04 - alt. 113 m - Turn left
  38. 38 : km 14 - alt. 115 m - Turn sharp left
  39. 39 : km 15.1 - alt. 103 m - Turn sharp right
  40. 40 : km 15.82 - alt. 97 m - Turn slight left onto Stevenage Road
  41. 41 : km 16.26 - alt. 95 m - Turn right onto Chantry Lane
  42. 42 : km 16.61 - alt. 88 m - At roundabout, take exit 1
  43. 43 : km 16.63 - alt. 88 m - Keep left
  44. 44 : km 17.25 - alt. 78 m - Turn left onto Stevenage Road
  45. 45 : km 17.32 - alt. 76 m - Keep left
  46. 46 : km 17.34 - alt. 76 m - Turn sharp left onto Stevenage Road
  47. 47 : km 17.37 - alt. 76 m - Turn right onto Priory Road
  48. 48 : km 17.55 - alt. 77 m - Keep left
  49. 49 : km 18.48 - alt. 88 m - Keep left
  50. 50 : km 18.65 - alt. 86 m - Turn right
  51. 51 : km 18.68 - alt. 86 m - Turn slight right onto Hitchin Road
  52. 52 : km 19.02 - alt. 84 m - Turn left
  53. 53 : km 19.86 - alt. 60 m - Turn right
  54. S/E : km 20.21 - alt. 60 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 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 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 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.

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