Length: 14.8 km (9.2 mi) with 150m ascent/descent with all extensions, shorter and longer walks possible
Net Walking Time: 4 hrs (plus time spent in the gardens or houses)
Take the 10.15 Overground train to Cheshunt from Liverpool
Street (all stations via Stoke Newington and Seven Sisters
(Victoria Line), arrives 10.47.
Return trains: xx.07
and xx.37. Turkey Street is in Zone 6.
This is an interesting route just inside the M25 in
the far north of London, in the Borough of Enfield. It combines several scenic
waterways, a park and some fine woods as well as a couple of impressive country
estates open to the public.
Highlights include a short stretch of The New River
and longer stretches along its long de-commissioned Old Course, the Whitewebbs
Loop, the (optional and daytime only) route through the Myddelton House Gardens, the Tottenham
Hotspur Training Centre, London’s first Beaver Enclosure, the semi-natural
ancient woodland at Whitewebbs Park including a stretch along the meandering
Cuffley Brook, the Flash Lane Aqueduct which carried the New River across the
brook, the Rendlesham Railway Viaduct (on a short detour), the Turkey Brook
meandering through Hilly Fields Park as well as through the Forty Hall Estate
and the views of Forty Hall.
Longer routes through Whitewebbs Wood, Hilly Fields
Park and the Forty Hall Estate are described, as are two link routes to/from
SWC Short Walk 10 (Trent Country Park and Enfield Chase).
Eat/Drink: Bowles Tea Room at Myddelton House Gardens, located
1.2 km into the walk on the Myddelton House and Gardens option; Whitewebbs
Café, located 4.2 km into the walk; Toby Carvery in Whitewebbs House, located 5.0
km into the walk, 100m off route through trees on the Whitewebbs Wood
Extensions; The Rose & Crown Country Pub & Kitchen,
located 3.2 km from the end of the Main Walk (no hot food on BH Mondays); Cedar Tree Café Forty Hall, located 2.0 km
from the end of the walk on the last of the optional extensions.
For walk directions, map, photos,
and gpx/kml files click here. T=short.66
1 comment:
A slightly surprising n=17 on this walk today, who got a fair dose of gardens in bloom, dry paths through varied woods and along meandering brooks/rivers and a relatively large beaver enclosure to enjoy.
The highlight possibly was the Myddelton House Gardens, where seemingly every flower, plant or tree was in flower , and very colourful so, or at least so neatly arranged and maintained that it added to the feast for the eyes. There were also more bluebells there than in all the woods later on! We spent quite a bit of time in there.
The brooks were not as rushing as they are after more normal (wet) weather but still nicely meandering and with lots of gravel beds. The wooded sections were a delight as well today, with a variety of trees, many very old, and not busy at all.
As for routes taken: the group mostly stayed together, and almost all followed the short detour to the Toby Carvery Oak, but only 13 went to the Rose & Crown, with the other 4 heading to the Whitewebbs Cafe. 12 of the 13 then walked up to Forty Hall as well, visited the shop and examined the walled garden.
All but 1 early leaver caught the 15.37 train back.
The weather was w=overcast almost until the end when the sun broke through, and we had 2 very short periods of some rain coming down, during both of which we were protected from it (in Myddelton Gardens under the trees and in the pub).
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