Length: 16.3 km (10.1 miles) With loop to Marks Hall Gardens 23.2 km (14.4 miles)
Toughness: 3 out of 10 No steep hills today
London Liverpool Street: 10-02 hrs Greater Anglia service to Ipswich Stratford 10-09 hrs
Arrive Kelvedon: 10-51 hrs
Return: 15-55, 16-23, 16-52, 17-24, 18-02, 18-23 and 18-55 hrs
Early in today's walk there is a delightful section beside the River Blackwater - a grassy tree-lined way - as we head towards the historic town of Coggeshall with its medieval buildings - including Paycocke's and the Grange Barn. Please refer to the walk notes for a full description of these buildings and the many other delights on offer. To allow mid-week walkers time to explore this fascinating town (the antithesis to the concept that Essex is 'boring") I suggest we omit the loop to the Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum and do the shorter walk - but not before finding somewhere nice to stop for lunch in Coggeshall. One of these is the Woolpack Inn, a 15th century building.
After lunch the walk continues over fields and along a number of field edges to the village of Feering, from where it is a short leg back to Kelvedon. There are two very acceptable pubs in town close to the railway station for walk-end refreshments, the nearest being the Railway Tavern.
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Walk Directions are here: L=swc.216
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N=6 today, 3 of whom did the standard walk and 3 (including the author) did the longer. Guess which one I did. We never saw the long 3 again.
The weather was w=mostly-overcast-with-some-sun-later Fairly dry underfoot despite yesterday’s rain.
We reached Coggeshall to find everything was closed. Grange Barn closed, Paycockes closed (both only open Sunday and Monday), and the Woolpack only doing meals after 5. And they had a limited choice of beer and only bottled cider. But we made do. Then if it was off across fields past Feering church (closed) and back to Kelvedon for a pleasant post walk drink beside the Blackwater in the Railway Tavern.
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