Danbury Walks
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Guiding you around your County Danbury walks Six circular walks around the Danbury Countryside Prepared for the Danbury Society by Wendy & David Moore & Essex County Council Public Rights of Way The Danbury Society The booklet contains six illustrated Walks: • Thrift Wood • Waterhall Meadow This booklet will help you explore • Butt’s Green • Pheasanthouse Wood the countryside walks around Danbury. • Blake’s Wood • Sandon Brook Each walk contains a detailed map and information to enable you to enjoy your walk. Saffron Walden Saf alden Harwich Braintree Stansted Colchester Tendring DANBURY Harlow Chelmsford Maldon Epping Brentwood Rochford Basildon Benfleet Saffron Walden Follow the Waymarks Little Byway Footpath Bridleway Restricted Byway Baddow The Generals Waterhall Arms PH 4 Waymarker arrows are attached to fingerposts, stiles, gates and posts. Meadow 2 4 Blake's Yellow arrows are used on Public Footpaths, Blue arrows are used on 6 Wood 6 Pheasanthouse public Bridleways (look out for cyclists and horse riders). Wood The Rid Red arrows are used on public Byways (look out for motor vehicles as Sandon Scrubs well as cyclists and horses). Brook ge Wood Lingwood er Rd Permissive Footpaths (arrow colours vary) are not ‘official’ public rights Common alt Thrift Mai The Griffin Wood of way. Most permissive paths are found in Country Parks and Nature Chelmsford n R A414 oad Hotel PH Anchor DANBURY oodha PHm W Reserves and are provided by the landowner. Eves Corner WA414 Royal Church Maldon Road Oak PH 5 Danbury Danbury Community Country Cricketers Please remember the countryside is a work place so please keep to Park Arms PH Sports and Social Centre 1 START paths and use stiles and gates when crossing fences. Keep dogs on Danbury leads where animals may be grazing and take care when walking along, Common (NT) or crossing, roads. Butt's Follow the Countryside Code. Green Thorn Wood • Be safe - plan ahead and follow any signs 3 • Leave gates and property as you find them • Protect plants and animals, and take your litter home • Keep dogs under close control. • Consider other people For further information about Public Rights of Way in Essex Tel: 01245 437291 www.essexcc.gov.uk path down into the dip, turn right and follow the wide track until you reach the Danbury Walk timber yard and turn left once timber yard fence is reached. Continue along the path skirting around the timber yard and pass through a kissing gate. One Turn left onto the track, walk to the end by a house called Robin Wood and turn right. Follow this track along the side of the golf course until the Thrift Wood Woodham Walter Road is reached. Cross straight over the road to a stile, cross over and continue ahead into Thrift Wood. Carry on for approximately 1⁄2 mile, Distance and time taken Parking and where path forks take the right-hand path crossing over a bridge. 1 5.6 miles (9.0 km) Approx. 2 ⁄2 hours. Danbury Community Association Continue along this path until you reach the end of the wood, follow the path Sports and Social Centre. left then turn right out of the woods. Continue along this path to come out at the Refreshments Little Baddow Rd. (opp Runsell Ln) Royal Oak P.H. on the A414. Shops and pubs in Danbury Village. Danbury Common. Royal Oak P.H. at Woodham Mortimer. Turn right and walk for approximately 200 metres before crossing the road Ordnance Survey Maps and passing through a gate into the fields. Follow this path to Tyndales Farm Public Transport Explorer 183 and continue ahead to the road. Turn right and take the second right into 0870 608 2608 Traveline Tyndales Lane. At the cross-roads continue straight ahead, turning right at the Traffic Information 0845 600 0110 end and then immediately left into Gay Bowers Road. After approximately 100 wc Toilets metres turn right into a track, pass Ivy Cottage and turn right at the end. Walk Community Centre Car Park approximately 30 metres and cross a stile on your left into an open field. Danbury - Scrub’s Wood - Thrift Wood - Follow the footpath across the field and up to the farm. On arriving at a gate turn right over a stile and then immediately left over the next stile. Danbury Common - Danbury Continue straight ahead and pass between the stables. Cross a stile and carry Directions on straight ahead, through a staggered barrier, with a barbed wire fence on From the Danbury Community Centre, walk to the rear of the car parks and up your left. Cross over another stile into the woods (you are now in Danbury past the Armada Beacon to the Radio Mast. At the end of the path turn right and Common, which is open access land). continue along past the Church to the A414. Cross over the road and turn right Carry straight on into the woods and turn right after crossing the bridges over and after about 30 metres turn left down a concrete gravelled drive. a stream. Follow the path along the side of the stream past the site of the old 1 Follow the drive for approximately ⁄4 mile until a wooden fence is reached pumping station on your left hand side, for which the foundations are on the right. still visible. Continue ahead along this path ignoring other paths, until the Turn right with the fence on your left and continue along this path. At the end road is reached. Turn left and after approximately 100 metres of the path turn right to come out onto Little Baddow Road. Cross over and walk cross the road to follow the footpath. Turn right after 100m by a manhole down Runsell Lane until Scrubs Wood Nature Reserve is reached on your left. cover and follow the path to Penny Royal Road. Cross the road and walk up Enter the reserve (opposite Simmonds Way) via the boardwalk and continue the path towards the church. Turn right before the Radio Mast, pass the Armada straight ahead until you reach a large dip, known as “Glacier Road”. Follow the Beacon and return to the Community Centre. 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Danbury Walk Cross an open area and go through a kissing gate into the Youth Camp field, then immediately turn left at the fingerpost and follow the yellow arrows across the park. Turn right, just before a marker post indicating a junction of two paths, taking the path just north of a dip and continue following the yellow Blake’s Wood arrows, past a pond to come out on the A414. Cross the A414 into Riffhams Lane and continue until a footpath sign on your Distance and time taken Parking left is reached (opposite Elm Green Lane). Cross over the stile into the field 1 5.5 miles (8.8 km) Approx. 3 ⁄2 hours. Danbury Community Association and continue across the field to the next stile. Cross over into the wood and Sports and Social Centre. follow the main path over a bridge and past pipes, until you reach a field. Refreshments Blakes Wood Keep walking around the right-hand edge of the field until a stile is reached, Shops and pubs in Danbury Village. Danbury Common. cross the stile and turn left into Graces Lane and then almost immediately Public Transport Ordnance Survey Maps right again through a kissing gate into an old orchard. Traveline 0870 608 2608 Explorer 183 Traffic Information 0845 600 0110 Take the path going straight on and continue wc Toilets down into Blakes Wood. Head over a stream and at the end of the wood cross Community Centre Car Park & a green and a drive and pass through the gap between the houses in front of Danbury Country Park you. Carry on along this path and cross a stile, bridge and a track. Go over another stile and head straight across the field. Turn rightinto Chapel Danbury - Danbury Country Park - Blakes Wood - Lane, take the next footpath on the right and continue along this Lingwood Common - Danbury path turning immediately right after Belle Vue Farm.