The Hertfordshire Way – Bishop’s Stortford to Hare Street: The one where we got lost – and again and again and again! Leaving Tesco’s Car Park on the outskirts of Bishop’s Stortford we soon found ourselves in the open countryside and came across a sign showing us where the Herts Way had been diverted. We…
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THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Hertford to Widford – “It is not raining rain you know…………”
We set off on the next leg of our 60th birthday challenge along the Hertfordshire Way from the County Town on a beautiful Spring morning. Leaving behind McMullen’s Brewery amid chatter about what beers used to be served in St Albans’ old “Blue Anchor” we soon found ourselves as two lone walkers ambling alongside Goldings Canal. So quickly…
THE NICKEY LINE………. and more
I was looking for a walk that would not be too wet underfoot and as with my recent walk around the St Albans Green Ring, I found a route taking in an old railway line which proved to be a great idea. The seven mile Nickey line runs between Hemel Hempstead and Harpenden. It is fairly…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Broxbourne to Hertford
Cold, proud, noisy geese peppered our route along this section of the Hertfordshire Way from Broxbourne to Hertford. I always find it difficult to rouse myself from the January post-Christmas festive slump and get out walking and it was indeed fortuitous that this section coincided with a perfect winter’s walk. The day felt forlorn, melancholy…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Cuffley to Broxbourne
There was something rather magical about this twelve mile section of The Hertfordshire Way from Cuffley to Broxbourne. The crops had been harvested and the fields had that freshly ploughed orderliness that I so love; the leaves were beginning to turn their rich regal shades of crimson and gold; sloes were dripping from the hedgerows…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Shenley to Cuffley
We were blessed with a glorious late summer’s day for this varied section of the Hertfordshire Way between Shenley and Cuffley. It needs to be recorded here that during our chattering this day we made plans for our 100th birthday challenge. We are to meet on Weymouth Beach (where else!) in the year 2059, long skirts…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Kings Langley to Shenley
This section of the Hertfordshire Way from Kings Langley to Shenley proved to be a day of contrasts: sunshine and rain; motorways and hidden corners of serenity; littered scrubland and panoramic vistas of unspoilt English countryside. Unprompted A and I both automatically burst into a rendition of “We are the Ovaltinees, little girls and boys”…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: HEMEL HEMPSTEAD TO KINGS LANGLEY
A beautiful section ten mile of the Hertfordshire Way between Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley
HERTFORDSHIRE WAY – HERONS AND HORSES
If all sections of the Hertfordshire Way are as varied and picturesque as the section from Tring to Hemel Hempstead then we are in for a treat for the rest of our birthday pilgrimage. The clouds were low and the morning grey and chilly as we set forth from Tring Station retracing our steps…
THE HERTFORDSHIRE WAY: Markyate to Tring Station
How fortunate to have chosen probably the most beautiful day of the year so far to walk this section of the Hertfordshire Way from Markyate to Tring. This was the 11 mile section of the 170 mile Hertfordshire Way that my friend, A and I are aiming to complete in stages prior to May/June 2019…
