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Saturday, 5 October 2024

Tring to Berkhamsted


This is a ‘mash-up’ of two lovely walks (grateful to Marcus and Walker for suggestion), and it combines the best bits of both walks. 

 Length: 10.5 miles/20.6  km to Berkhamsted OR

10.1 miles/16.3 km for the circular walk.

 Effort: 4 out of 10

 Trains: Departure: 9.39 from London Euston  Arrive Tring 10.21

Return trains:

From Berkhamstead: xx20; xx28; xx50; xx58

From Tring: xx15;xx23;xx45;xx53

 Ticket type: Buy a return ticket to Tring

 Lunch:  Recommended lunchtime put is the Bridgewater Arms in Little Gaddesden for both routes. tel:+4401442842408 If you have a picnic, best to eat it before turning off for the pub.

 You will need directions for the Tring Circular to start this walk. 

When you get to the Bridgewater Arms pub in Little Gaddesdon, pick up the directions from that pub in the Tring to Berkhamstead via Tom’s Hill walk and follow these to Berkhamsted.

 Tring Circular can be found here: https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/tring-circular/

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 Tring to Berkhamsted walk here: https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/tring-to-berkhamsted/

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 If you wish to return to Tring station, then continue to use the Tring directions, which will take you past the Bridgewater Monument, a tea room, and then through the village of Aldbury with two pubs.

 There are many lovely features on this walk.  A walk through woodland and along the Chiltern escarpment to Ivinghoe Beacon with fabulous views.  Retrace your steps down, and follow the Icknield Way Trail through the woods.

After lunching in The Bridgewater Arms in Little Gaddesdon, (or nearby if picnicking) you walk through the lovely golden valley, Ashridge House, more beechwoods, and on towards Berkhamsted.

 Numerous pubs and tea rooms in Berkhamsted.

 

3 comments:

Marcus said...

Hello Branchlike, you seem to be mix and matching the start of the Book 2 walk with SWC 366 - Tring to Berko via Tom's Hill (the Book 2 walk after lunch does not pass Ashridge House or go along Golden Valley). No bad thing as the combination walk makes for an excellent autumn walk, but if this was your intention walkers will need the directions for SWC 366 as well as the directions for the Book 2 walk.

Walker said...

There ARE tea options on the circular walk. Best is the Monument cafe by the Bridgewater Monument (though only outside seating…). Meanwhile, Aldbury village has the Greyhound pub and the (reopened) Trooper pub last time I checked (which was in April): see the walk home page for details. Having said that, it is a fine walk to Berkhamsted and it does have nice tea/pub options.

Since this walk and walk 366 has the same lunch pub, you could do this walk to lunch and then 366 in the afternoon: not a bad combination.

branchline said...

There were #12 gathered on the platform of Tring station, and one who had missed the train caught up with us so #13 in all. Weather #sunny-and-warm throughout the day. About 8 of us climbed up to the beacon whilst others decided to push on to the Little Gaddesdon. Lovely views, from the trig point, and then we walked through gentle fields and woods to the Bridgewater Arms. Around 6 of us had lunch in the pub, whilst others picnicked in the playing fields just behind the pub which has benches. After lunch about 6 people did the Tring Circular Route, whilst the remainder walked to Berkhamsted through the Golden Valley, past Ashridge House, and past the remains of the practice WW1 trenches. A really lovely walk, and the combination of the two walks worked really well.