Length: 16.3 km (10.1 miles)
Longer walk incorporating loop to Marks Hall 23.2 km (14.4 miles)
Toughness: 3/10
Catch the 10:02 train from London Liverpool Street, arrives Kelvedon: 10:51.
Highlights of the walk include an old mill, medieval abbey buildings, and the town of Coggeshall with its numerous listed buildings including Paycockes an ornate 15th century merchants house.
Return trains xx:23 xx:54 18:01 xx:23 xx:54
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Two of us, plus a small dog met on the platform. This is a lovely walk, plenty of large fields of cereal and oil seed rape, but also, especially north of Coggeshall, the path is next to or through woodland with serious amounts of wild garlic, some flowering and some in bud. Bluebells and butterflies too. A field of possibly broadbeans had beautiful purple and white flowers. The boardwalk section beside the Blackwater leading into Kelvedon was calm and quiet with the sinking sun coming through the trees. We walked at a moderate pace, sandwiched in the garden of Paycocks House and got the 18.23 back to London.
We did spend a little time exploring someone’s garden looking for the path from Pointwell Mill, the yellow marker on a cottage having fallen off or become invisible, but then were rewarded with a lovely walk between two branches of the River Blackwater and through a farm clearly containing bits of the old Abbey.
We admired the numerous very old and generally well-kept houses in Coggeshall. Many are painted in pastel colours e.g. the Conservative Club (late 17th century) was pale blue.
The fields east of Coggeshall as far as the A120 are already dug up for 300+ new houses (“40% affordable”!?!), the path is clear between fences, and shows up on the artists impression of the new estate but may prompt a rethink of that part of the route, especially as the next section requires 2 crossings of the A120.
N=2, w=sunny, dry, warm.
Thank you to DAC for posting.
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