East 06 , Ramblers Routes DISTANCE 8.7KM/5½ MILES ASCENT 45M/147FT TIME 3 HOURS TYPE VILLAGES AND COUNTRY

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3 Ipswich

Colchester

CHIPPING Chelmsford ONGAR

4

2 Plan your walk WHERE A circular walk from Chipping Ongar. 5 START START/END Lorry park off a & FINISH 1 roundabout to the south of the town, with bus services and free parking (TL551026). TERRAIN Good signage takes before Willow Cottage. Go R at you over reasonable paths and This circular walk is full of history and delightful hedged junction. Cross bridge to road. tracks, rarely muddy in winter. paths. You’ll pass the living quarters of the young David MAPS OS Explorer 183; Livingstone, the celebrated Victorian explorer, as well Go L, after 30m go L over bridge. Landranger 167. 5 as the chapel where he trained to be a missionary. The Continue along three fi eld edges GETTING THERE Buses 46 to bridge and junction. Go R. Keep from Chelmsford, and 420 from route then takes you past a Norman motte and bailey forward. Divert L to Harlow, stop outside the lorry castle; the refuge of some Tolpuddle Martyrs; and, as Church. This church, a surviving part park. The 420 and 339 provide a grand fi nale, the oldest wooden church in the world of which dates from around 1060, is several services an hour from better known across the North Sea Epping railway station to Ongar. ROUTE BY LEN BANISTER than in Britain because it is an older EATING & DRINKING stave church than any in Norway. In The Cock Tavern (01277 365261, START Leave lorry park, go L trees. Go L, over bridge, R under fact, it is the oldest wooden church in 1 thecocktavern.com) is passed along road toward town centre. railway. Cross to bank of Cripsey the world. The churchyard contains around stage 2. Look for Livingstone Cottages on R – Brook, follow it L to road. the grave of a 12th-century crusader SLEEPING Mulberry House, a plaque over the central passageway and, near the lychgate, the remains of Chelmsford Road, High Ongar identifi es the room in which David Go L, with care, soon turn L up a wooden cross marking the resting 3 (01277 365398; mulberry- Livingstone lived; the chapel beyond track next to Vojan restaurant. place of a local man who bled to death house.com). is where he started his missionary Cross railway. Keep forward, after after using his scythe after a bout of VISITOR INFORMATION training. Continue up road, go R at house, on narrower path to continue drinking. Return to lane, go L at Visit Essex (03330 130177, town sign. Soon go R past church, on metalled lane entering hamlet of fi ngerpost; go R as drive swings L. Keep visitessex.com). L along lane. Go through kissing gate, Greensted Green. Reach a junction. forward over bridge and extensive GUIDEBOOK Drive and and join path which swings L. Soon fi eld. Opposite line of trees, go R Stroll in Essex: Twenty Circular you will have a moat L – follow this Go L. Stop outside fi rst cottage across fi eld to marker into an estate. 4 Walks by Len Banister through two more gates passing R. In 1837, as a result of public Keep forward, go L alongside number (£7.95, Countryside Books, a 12th-century castle mound 16m outcry against their harsh sentence 42. Go R along hedge, continue over ISBN 978 1853068393). high. Cross car park to road. of transportation to Australia, the bridge to reach road and lorry park. LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP Dorset farm labourers known as the Cross (toilets R). Go slightly Tolpuddle Martyrs were returned to West Essex (ramblers.org.uk/ 2 Create your own route west-essex). L down Bansons Lane. After , where they were given Register an account at barrier, go diagonally R to marker tenancies in Greensted and High ramblers.org.uk/createroutes

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