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FP Winton Haw FP Easy walking with some gentle Greensward Lane If you have any problems whilst Ingulfs Lane FP East Hall White Hart climbs, the ground may be soft after Station walking on the Roach Valley Way Kennels Claverham rain and costal stretches are exposed please let the Public Rights of Way Cottage Jubilee FP East Hall Road Paglesham Road Cottages HOCKLEY Spa Road Clements Hall to windy weather. team know by telephoning South The Nest Hall Lane drain Aldermans Hill Main Road Durham Rd 08457 430 430 or Southend Rd Chapel Victor Gardens OBS Cottages White Hart Lane email [email protected] FP Glenthorpe New Cotts Road Key Bullwood Rd Woodlands Footpath Public Conveniences South Paglesham Road Great Bull Hockley Rise The HAWKWELL Bridleway A Bus stop drain Hall Wood Priory FP church Farm Kilnwood Main Road other path or bridleway Parking ClaybrickAve Cl stile or gate Refreshments Beeches school Wood Footbridge pond or lake Stannetts Hockley FP finger post View point Great Woods Stambridge 'Green Lane' 0 Scale 0.5 1 Kilometre Bullwood Hall 0 0.25 0.5 Mile Trout Peartree Fisheries Whitbreds Cottage Hampton Wood 2 The Old Barns 3 Stannetts Creek Mount Rectory Brick drain Bovers House FP Mount Bovers Lane Barton Parson's drain Hall mud Snipe River Roach Bartonhall New Creek England school mud Stambridge Road Winter's mud GustedLane Hall Ironwell Lane Stambridge Road Ashingdon Road drain Black Hall Road Cottage Potash Wood school Coombes ROCHFORD A mud Gustedhall Farm church Woods START Stroud Market Great Stambridge Hall Waldens Green Square Roche Way Mill Lane mud The Lawn Pelham's cricket Gusted FP Hall Road West St FP drain drain Primrose Farm A East St FP ground mud Hall FP Wood A Station South St Ark Lane Evans The FP Back La Stambridge moat Bradley Way Mills Farm Glebe FP St Andrews drain The Church Scrubs River Roach Mill Broomhills MHW River Roach Head Cherry B1013 Orchard La Rochford mud Hall New Cottons House River Roach FP Watt's Boat FP Lane Purdey's Yard Farm mud River Roach Tinker's Lane MHW Southend Road FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Blatches Cherry Orchard Way Cherry Southend Airport Blatches Chase Orchard Sutton Road Airport Works drain Althorne Creek The Cliff Black Point Bridgemarsh Island drain mud mud drain Lower Cliff Reach MHW MHW Raypit's Nature Reserve Raypits Reach Easter Reach MHW Lands mud mud End drain Tideways drain Upper Raypits drain drain Old Fleet Lower Raypits River Crouch mud Pudsey drain Hall bird hide Riverside Lion Creek Timber Pudsey Hall Lane Village Yard Nature Reserve Holiday Bolt Butts Hill pill box Park Hall Market Wallasea Hill Lion Creek Island CANEWDON pill box Saltings Lion Camp FP Canewdon Poultry Creeksea Road Farm Beacon Hall Farm Wharf Scaldhurst Glenesk Hill New Hall Farm FP Farm Mill Hatch Church High Street Gays Lane Larkhill Ave FP Raymonds Lion FP FP Note: The gates to St Nicholas Church A Farm Wades House are locked at dusk. village school The green drain Haven Lambourne Hall CreekseaRoad power line Lane Lark Hill Road Anchor Lambourne Hall Sycamore Way Takeley Road Anchor Lane Gardener's Lane FP Sunrise Lambourne White House Mead Moon's Farm Farm Paglesham Creek Farm Cottages Moon's Lark Hill Road Loftmans Road A Cottage Corner Hydewood Lane Newholme Moon's Scott's Hall Farm Canewdon Road Loftmans Ashingdon Highsteppers FP Glazebrook Hyde Wood Farm Loftmans Farm Road Hydewood Trinity Farm Wood St Andrews Church Mink FP Farm Woodside The Chase Church Road Paglesham Rainbow drain Churchend Cottage Homefield Radio Farm Mast Rouncefall Clifton Road St Peters Church Church FP FP Hall ASHINGDON FP FP Winton Haw FP Greensward Lane Ingulfs Lane FP East Hall Station White Hart Kennels Claverham Cottage Jubilee FP East Hall Road Paglesham Road Cottages HOCKLEY Spa Road Clements Hall Rochford is a medieval market town, The Square has also been South The Nest Hall Lane drain Aldermans Hill Main Road Durham Rd where Henry III granted market and fair the scene of an execution. 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