Showing posts with label Essex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essex. Show all posts
Sunday, July 05, 2026

Shoeburyness to Westcliff – Essex Coastal Walk

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  Last Sunday, Gill and I took the trains from Forest Gate out to Shoeburyness for another stretch of the Essex Coast. After the relative fr...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

🚶‍♂️ A Return to North Weald: Forgotten Paths, Hidden Forts and a 450‑Year‑Old Pub

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  After finishing my Councillor surgery yesterday, Gill and I drove out to North Weald for a 4.7‑mile circular walk — a route we first did i...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Boxing Day walk 2025: Duton Hill, Essex circular 6.5 miles

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Went for the traditional Boxing Day walk with Gill, starting at Duton Hill, Essex (near Dunmow), about 40 minutes from East London. Only whe...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Lambourne End Walk

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Off message. For various reasons (winter lergies, holidays, work, rotten weather etc) I have not been on any walks for a while. Two weeks ag...
Sunday, November 05, 2023

Aythorpe Roding, Woodlard Ash and Hellman's Cross walk (and the site of the execution of Elizabeth Abbot for witchcraft?)

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  Gill and I went today for a 5 mile circular walk in North Essex, starting at the ancient church in Aythorpe Roding. There are 8 settlement...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

Hatfield Heath, Essex Walk (& The Great British Bake Off )

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For various reasons I haven't posted any walks lately. I know some say they enjoy my posts on walking more than the ones on politics or ...
Sunday, June 04, 2023

Howe Street & Great Waltham, Essex Country walk

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  Gill and I went for this lovely 6.5 mile circular walk on Monday in Essex about 1 hour drive from East London. A fairly easy walk at this ...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Blackmore, Essex - Walk Feb 23

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Gill and I went on another Big Essex Skies and Sunshine walk today, starting and finishing in Blackmore. This was a "moderate" 7.4...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Nazeing Common walk

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Off message but on Sunday Gill and I went for a 5 mile circular walk around Nazeing Common in Essex. Only 30 minutes drive from East London ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

White Notley and Cressing Walk

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 It has been a while since I have been for (or posted) a country walk for various reasons. Today Gill and I took advantage of a dry and warm...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Thaxted Circular Walk (and return to the Church of the "Red Vicar")

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  Gill and I returned today to Thaxted in Essex to follow this 6.5 mile  circular walk from our old version of the local Pathfinder Guide ....
Sunday, November 28, 2021

Hanningfield Reservoir walk

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Off message but recently Gill and I did this short (4 mile) walk starting and finishing at Hanningfield Reservoir in South Essex (near Chelm...
Sunday, October 03, 2021

Greensted Essex Walk - start at "oldest Wooden Church in the World" (& Tolpuddle Martyrs connection)

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Today, Gill and I went on a superb autumnal walk, starting off from one of my very favourite locations, Greensted Church near Chipping Ongar...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

Newport and Debden Essex "Big Skies" walk

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  Off message. This is our favourite Essex Pathfinder walk . Only 40 minutes drive from Forest Gate (and accessible by rail). A 6.5 mile cir...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Benfleet Downs & Hadleigh Marsh Walk

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  "Off message" but another lovely post lockdown walk with Gill, 53 minutes by car from Forest Gate. This time in Essex, starting ...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Happy New Year / Blwyddyn Newydd Dda: Despite Covid, Brexit & Boris - Let's raise a toast to a better 2021

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Photo from the Fyfield village bridge across the River Roding overlooking the 13th Century Mill pond. 
Saturday, December 05, 2020

Post 2nd Lockdown circular walk around Little Baddow, Essex

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  Off message and hat tip to " Walking in Essex" by Peter Aylmer but today Gill and I went for a lovely 5 mile walk around Little...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Essex Way: Fairstead to Cressing circular walk

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Another lovely 8 mile walk along the Essex Way (and back). We started today at Fairstead Church and went to Cressing along this nationa...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Bowers Marsh Walk & the Battle of Benfleet

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Off message but went with Gill on a lovely 5.5 mile walk on Sunday courtesy of the free website EssexWalks.Com . We started off at the ...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Essex Way: Epping to Chipping Ongar

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Off message. Last year Gill and I finally finished the London Loop walk (which took us 3 years to complete in stages) but on 10 June we s...