After winding its way out of Broxbourne along a canal and through a park, this walk ascends through the Spital Brook valley into Broxbourne Woods National Nature Reserve, an assortment of varied, ancient and wild woods, serrated by a plethora of streams. A circuitous route linking up separate woods follows age old trails, paths and green lanes through a magnificent and diverse woodland setting. While broadly following a well signposted trail through the Nature Reserve, the walk often diverts from it to take more interesting directions. Most of the distance and the ascent are covered before lunch, but the lunch pub serves food all afternoon, so a leisurely pace is entirely possible. |
LENGTH : around 11 miles with pre lunch shortcut. As lunch is an out and back trip of 350m each way, picnickers would come in around 10.5 miles
TRAVEL ; get the 09.58 from LIVERPOOL ST. arriving at 10.23. Return trains from BAYFORD to MOORGATE are at .48 and .18 taking 48 mins. The start and finish stations are on different lines, so best ticket option is a return to HERTFORD ALL STATIONS which covers both and costs £7.45 from BZ6 with SRC. Buying two singles would be 50p more expensive.
LUNCH : The Woodman and Olive is a Greek themed country pub open all afternoon.
TEA : on the way to Bayford station you pass The Farmers Boy, Brickendon, again open all afternoon.
Bayford station has no facilities.
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#13 arrived at Broxbourne for a fine inaugural walk for this new walk poster. It was a #beautiful-dry-autumn day and so good conditions for this walk where large parts were covered in a thick carpet of fallen leaves. Most of the group lost touch with three of our number before we stopped for lunch at three convenient benches somewhere near the beginning of the westernmost loop of the route.
The main group missed the out the "lunch" pub and instead all but one early finisher stopped for a drink at the Farmer's Boy (which apparently is named after a horse). Some had to neck their drinks quickly to catch the 1548; I was glad to have done so as trains at a standstill at Waterloo meant a long journey home for me. Many thanks for posting
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