Length: 11 miles (17.7 km) 2 out of 10 T=swc.69
"Once out of the Garden City and over the A1(M) you are in some attractive Hertfordshire countryside, including the landscaped parkland of Brocket Hall and Lamer House. In the afternoon you reach the picturesque village of Ayot St Lawrence, which has two unusual churches – one reminiscent of a Greek temple, the other an ivied Gothic ruin – and if you wish you can visit the home of George Bernard Shaw, Shaw's Corner, now owned by the National Trust. (Open to the public from 1300, garden 1200)"
Trains: Get the Thameslink 0957 Royston train from Kings Cross (Finsbury Park 1003) arriving Welwyn 1026. Return fast trains at xx21 xx51 to Kings cross (29 minutes), with slow trains at xx005 & xx30 to Moregate (51 minutes).
Lunch: The recommended lunch pub for this walk is The Brocket Arms (01438 820250) in Ayot St Lawrence, 11km from the start.
"Once out of the Garden City and over the A1(M) you are in some attractive Hertfordshire countryside, including the landscaped parkland of Brocket Hall and Lamer House. In the afternoon you reach the picturesque village of Ayot St Lawrence, which has two unusual churches – one reminiscent of a Greek temple, the other an ivied Gothic ruin – and if you wish you can visit the home of George Bernard Shaw, Shaw's Corner, now owned by the National Trust. (Open to the public from 1300, garden 1200)"
Trains: Get the Thameslink 0957 Royston train from Kings Cross (Finsbury Park 1003) arriving Welwyn 1026. Return fast trains at xx21 xx51 to Kings cross (29 minutes), with slow trains at xx005 & xx30 to Moregate (51 minutes).
Lunch: The recommended lunch pub for this walk is The Brocket Arms (01438 820250) in Ayot St Lawrence, 11km from the start.
Tea: a walk report recommends the Doctor's Tonic pub "very cosy and well appointed", but it will be showing Rugby... The directions have The Waggoners, 1km from the end or Simmons cafe, close to the railway station.
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N=7 (after the capital walkers found the right group) on the walk, which had a fast pace throughout. Mostly w=dry_with_brief_shower and not too muddy for the terrain. A split after lunch between pub stop and keep walking but met up for the 1551 back to London, 3 having a drink in the Doctors Tonic, the others having had a drawn out tea stop.
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