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.

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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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and leave the wood. 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. Directions Follow the path past a National Trust sign into Blake’s Wood and follow the ‘Wildside walk’ signs through the wood. Cross over the third bridge (it has a From the Danbury Community Centre, walk to the rear of the car parks and up brass memorial plaque on it). You then reach Riffhams Chase. At the top of the past the Armada Beacon towards the Radio Mast and at end of path turn left slope turn right and continue for approximately 300 metres, before turning down the hill. At the bottom turn right, past the pub, walk to the cross-roads, left into Lingwood Common just after the White House. cross over into Sporehams Lane and then take the footpath on the right-hand side going diagonally across the common over a small bridge to Fitzwalter Lane. Continue on along this path, passing a seat on the left, until you reach a Turn immediately right into Fitzwalter Lane and walk past the houses. After the- marker post by another seat. Turn right and follow the ‘Wildside Walk' last house (Wildcroft) take narrow path on left to Woodhill Road. Walk along signs until you reach a concrete driveway between two houses. Follow Woodhill Road and about 20m past the Danbury Park car park entrance go this drive until you reach the A414 road, turn right and then cross over at the through a kissing gate on the right and take the footpath into the Park. church. Take the path to the left of the church turning left after the Radio Mast, Carry on straight ahead following the yellow arrow signs, go over a stream pass the Armada Beacon and return back to the Community Centre.

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Walk down Butts Green Road and look for a bungalow on the right called Danbury Walk The Turnpike. Turn into the footpath just after the bungalow and follow the track across the field until you reach a small bridge on the left. Cross the bridge three through the hedge into the next field and follow the path, keeping the hedge to your left, until you reach a gap. Pass through the gap, cross a plank bridge into Butt’s Green the trees, and follow the path to the top of the rise. Bear right, keeping the hedge on your left, and look for a stile on the left. Distance and time taken Parking 5.3 miles (8.6 km) Approx. 3 hours. Danbury Community Association Cross the stile and bridge and follow the waymarkers across the field, turn right Sports and Social Centre. and walk along the edge of the field until you reach a stile. Cross the stile and Refreshments Blakes Wood follow the track to the end. Cross over another stile and the drive into an Shops and pubs in Danbury Village. Danbury Common. orchard and follow the hedge to the left and shortly you will see a gap with Public Transport a bridge in it. Cross the bridge and stile then head towards the far right-hand Ordnance Survey Maps corner of the field into a small wood, bear left until you reach the road. Traveline 0870 608 2608 Explorer 183 Traffic Information 0845 600 0110 Turn left into Sporehams Lane and walk along the lane until you reach a wc Toilets fingerpost on the right. Cross into the field and walk straight across it, past Community Centre Car Park & the pylon, to a bridge. Cross over the bridge and follow the path across the Danbury Country Park field to the far hedge until you reach a gap into Woodhill Road. Turn right into the road and walk along it until you reach a kissing gate on the left into Danbury - Thorn Wood - Butt’s Green - Danbury Park beside Yewtree Cottage. Danbury Country Park - Danbury Take the path into the park then take the right-hand fork heading up to the lakes, follow the track past the toilets, past the lakes and follow the path around the Directions car park. Follow the main track (parallel to the road) through the woods, and From the Danbury Community Centre, walk to the rear of the car parks and up past after about 150 metres, just south of another car park, follow the track to the the Armada Beacon towards the Radio Mast and at the top turn left down the hill. At right until you reach Woodhill Road. Turn left along the road and look for an the bottom turn right into the lane, pass the pub, and walk to the cross-roads and unmarked footpath on the right just before the bend in the road to the left. cross over into Sporehams Lane. Follow Sporehams Lane until you cross a bridge over Follow the path into Fitzwalter Lane and walk along the lane almost to the end. the ford then look for Orchard End on the left (200m past the ford). Just before the road look for a footpath post on the left and walk across the com- Turn into Orchard End, pass between the houses, turn right then left and cross mon until you reach Sporehams Lane. Turn left into the lane, walk to the cross- the field to Thorn Wood. Turn left and look for a stile on the right just past the roads and cross the main road, pass the Cricketers Arms P.H. and at the footpath wood. Cross the stile and walk to the far left corner of the field then walk post on the left follow the path up the hill towards Danbury Church. At the top ahead keeping the hedge on your left until you reach a concrete road. Turn turn right, pass the Armada Beacon and return back to the Community Centre. right and follow the road to the end. Turn right along the very busy Hanningfield Road and follow it until you reach Butts Green Road on the right.

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Cross over the road and walk down Fir Tree Lane past all the houses and into Danbury Walk the wood continuing on until a cross roads is reached at a Nature Reserve sign. Go straight across and continue along the path with Pheasanthouse Wood on four your left. At another Nature Reserve sign, follow the main track round to the left and soon after take the left fork, looking for an old boundary bank on the Pheasanthouse left. Follow the path beside this bank through the trees and down the slope until you reach the corner of Pheasanthouse Wood, then cross a bridge and a Wood stile into the field. Distance and time taken Parking Follow the field edge to your right until you reach a gate at the top of the field 5.8 miles (9.3 km) Approx. 3 hours. Danbury Community Association by the farm and pond. Cross over a stile, bear left and walk up through the Sports and Social Centre. farmyard, cross over another stile and walk up the field towards woodland, with Refreshments Blakes Wood the wire fence on your left. Cross a stile at top of field, turn right, follow the Shops and pubs in Danbury Village. Danbury Common. The Generals Arm P.H. at Little Baddow track to the main road and take the footpath on the opposite side of the road. Ordnance Survey Maps Follow this path around the fences of private gardens, to eventually arrive at a Public Transport Explorer 183 Traveline 0870 608 2608 gravel track. Turn left and walk to end of track where you can stop and enjoy Traffic Information 0845 600 0110 the view over the Chelmer valley. Turn left along the bridleway past a large house on the left and then turn left at a waymarker post, passing tennis wc Toilets Community Centre Car Park courts and continue to the main road. Cross straight over into Mill Lane and at the end turn right, then left into Danbury - Lingwood Common - Pheasanthouse Wood - Parsonage Lane. Walk to the end of Parsonage Lane and take the left hand path into Blake’s Wood and continue along the path following the carved N.T. Blake’s Wood - Lingwood Common - Danbury signs on the posts. Cross over a bridge (note the memorial plaque to Rod Dew, a former Maldon District Footpath Officer), and continue up the hill to Directions come out at Blake’s Wood car park. From the Danbury Community Centre, walk to the rear of the car parks and up past the Armada Beacon towards the Radio Mast. At the end of the path turn Turn right into Riffhams Chase and then left into Lingwood Common just after right, passing the Church to come out onto the A414. Cross over the road and the White House. Continue on along this path, passing a seat on the left, until 1 you reach another seat, turn right and follow the 'Wildside walk' turn left, walk for approximately ⁄4 mile before turning right into Colemans Lane. signs downhill until you reach a concrete driveway between two houses. Walk to the bottom of the lane and continue straight ahead uphill into Follow this drive until you reach the A414 road, then turn right and Lingwood Common Woods At the top of the hill turn left and carry on straight cross over at the church. Take the path to the left of the church turning ahead for a while then turn right onto a path just before a seat. Continue along left after the Radio Mast, pass the Armada Beacon and return to the this path to the end, coming out by the King Edward Scout Park. Cross the stile. Community Centre. Turn right and follow the path with the ditch on your right to the main road.

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field, then turn immediately left by the fingerpost and follow the yellow arrows Danbury Walk across the park. Go straight on at a crossroads of paths and head into the trees. On reaching the drive to Danbury Palace, cross over the stiles and the road. Walk ahead to an open area then across it until you reach a stile just inside five wood. Cross over the stile into the wood and follow the yellow arrows to come out onto the A414 opposite St Clere’s Hall. Sandon Brook Cross the A414 (beware of traffic) and take the footpath just to the left of Distance and time taken Parking entrance of St Clere’s Hall. Follow the footpath across the lawn to the road. Turn 4.9 miles (7.9 km) Approx. 3 hours. Danbury Community Association right down the road (beware of traffic). Carry on until you reach a footpath sign Sports and Social Centre. on your left and turn into an old grass track and follow it past Old Hare Wood Refreshments Danbury Country park. until a large gap is reached on the left. Go through this gap and walk straight Shops and pubs in Danbury Village. across the field towards Sandon Brook. Turn left by a bridge just before Ordnance Survey Maps reaching Sandon Brook and head towards the end of Old Hare Wood. Go along Public Transport Explorer 183 Traveline 0870 608 2608 the end of the wood and then carry on across the field, heading towards the Traffic Information 0845 600 0110 bushes just left of the waterworks on the A414. wc Toilets Turn left then cross over the A414, walk down Hulls Lane and then turn left onto Community Centre Car Park a track just after the cottages. Follow this track through a wood to Danbury Country park. the opposite side of the field then turn left and follow the hedge until a gap is reached. Go through the gap and then bear left following the path along the Danbury - Danbury Country Park - Sandon Brook - side of the trees and cross over a stile at the end of the wood and into a field. Walk up the middle of an avenue of trees (the Palace is ahead in the distance). Danbury Country Park - Danbury Cross over the next two stiles, then bear left crossing the Palace drive, towards the next stile. Directions Continue along one footpath to arrive at another drive to Danbury Palace. From the Danbury Community Centre, walk to the rear of the car parks, up past Cross the drive into the park and when you reach a marker post at a crossroads the Armada Beacon towards the Radio Mast and at end of the path turn left of paths turn right. Carry on, following the yellow arrows, and pass through a down the hill. At the bottom turn right, pass the pub and walk to the cross-roads, kissing gate and cross to the wood. Follow the path through the trees, turn left cross over into Sporehams Lane and then take the footpath on the right-hand and pass the Public Conveniences and pond on your left, and then from the car side going diagonally across the common over a bridge to Fitzwalter Lane. park follow a well worn path through the woods to reach Well Lane. Turn right into Fitzwalter Lane, walk past the houses and after the last house Cross over the road and walk into The Heights. Turn right and go up the steps (Wildcroft), take the narrow left-hand path to come out onto Woodhill Road. between the houses and along an alley, cross a road and then walk up the Walk along Woodhill Road and about 20m past the Danbury Park car park alley opposite. At end of the alley turn left and continue ahead, passing the top entrance go through a kissing gate on the right and take the footpath into the of Southview Road. Where the path forks, take the right-hand path and continue Park. Carry on straight ahead following the yellow arrow signs until you go over ahead to the church yard. At the end turn right, then left at the end and walk a stream and leave the wood. past the Armada Beacon to arrive back at the Community Centre. Cross an open area and go through a kissing gate into the Outdoor Pursuits Centre

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then turn left. Follow the path for a while then turn right just before another Danbury Walk seat. Continue along this path to the end, coming out by the King Edward Six Scout Park. Cross the stile, turn left and walk to the end of the track. Turn left onto Riffhams Chase road and walk a short distance before turning Waterhall right into Blake’s Wood car park. Take the right hand path and following the ‘Wildside walk’ signs cross over a bridge, turn left, follow the path past two Meadow more bridges and, still following the ‘Wildside walk’ signs, turn left over another bridge. Follow this path up to Belle Vue Farm. Take the narrow path Distance and time taken Parking between the farm drive and a gate. Carry on along this track to the road then 1 6.2 miles (10.0 km) Approx. 3 ⁄2 hours. Danbury Community Association turn left into Chapel Lane. Walk down Chapel Lane and Hurrells Lane for Sports and Social Centre. approximately 1/2 a mile. Go over a bridge over a ford and turn left just Refreshments Danbury Country park. after the ford into Waterhall Meadow Nature Reserve. Shops and pubs in Danbury Village. Ordnance Survey Maps Follow the path straight ahead through the meadow passing through a Public Transport Explorer 183 kissing gate at the end. Continue following the path through a wooded Traveline 0870 608 2608 area with the stream away to your left. Cross a stile and take the path Traffic Information 0845 600 0110 on the right of a hedge between two fields. On reaching Graces Walk turn wc Toilets left and walk to the end of the drive, passing Great Graces, to reach the road. Community Centre Car Park Cross over the road and a stile, turn immediately right and pass over Danbury - Lingwood Common - Blake’s Wood - another stile. Follow the path through the old orchard. At the end of the path as it bears left turn right and go out onto GracesLane. Turn left and continue Waterhall Meadow - Lingwood Common - Danbury along Graces Lane to the end and turn left into RiffhamsChase. After approximately 25 metres turn right at the bridleway sign into Lingwood Directions Common. From the Danbury Community Centre, walk to the rear of the car parks, up past the Armada Beacon towards the Radio Mast. At the end of the path Continue on along this path, passing a seat on the left, until you reach turn right and walk past the church until you reach the A414. another seat, then turn right and follow the 'Wildside walk' signs Turn left along the main road and look for a path to the left of a house called until you reach a concrete driveway between two bungalows. Griffin Meadow, on the other side of the road. Cross over and walk down this Follow this drive until you reach the A414 road, then turn right and path into the trees, cross over a bridge and turn left when a track is reached. cross over at the church. Take the path to the left of the church turning left after the Radio Mast, past the Armada Beacon and return to Pass between two bungalows at the end of the track into the woods and follow the Community Centre. the path up into Lingwood Common. When you reach a marker post and seat

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The Aims of the Danbury Society • To involve the residents of Danbury in interests and pursuits to enrich village life. • To ensure that changes in the village are undertaken with sensitivity to the character of Danbury. • To protect the natural beauty of the local landscape and to promote its maintenance and care. • To work for the preservation and protection of buildings and features of interest in Danbury.

The information contained in this publication was, as far as known correct at the date of issue. The Publishers cannot, however, accept any responsibility for errors or omissions or changes in details given. Please remember that the countryside is constantly changing, eg, hedgerows and fencelines change and public rights of way can be diverted.

Walkers are advised to follow the waymarks.

Maps based upon Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationary office. Licence No.LA 076619 © Crown Copyright. ISBN 1852811501. Essex County Council 3/99

This booklet is issued by Essex County Council Public Rights of Way. You can contact us in the following ways: By telephoning our Helpline: on 0845 603 7631 By post: Essex County Council Freepost CL289 County Hall, Chelmsford CM1 1YY By email: [email protected] By textphone: for people with hearing difficulties 0845 7430 430

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