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A12 It is strongly recommended that Essex County Council supports the mud The Roach Valley Way Chelmsford A12 Maldon strong comfortable ankle supporting Countryside Code, which helps Pudsey drain Hall footwear is worn and take additional members of the public respect, is a circular walk of A414 bird hide Riverside Lion Creek Timber Pudsey Hall Lane waterproof and windproof clothing. protect and enjoy the countryside. Village Yard Nature Reserve Holiday twenty three miles around A130 Bolt A little foodButts Hilland waterpill box should be Park South Hall Follow the countryside code: Woodham Market Wallasea Ferrers provided for the journey. Burnham Hill Island south-east Essex leading on Crouch Lion Creek River Crouch Canewdon CANEWDON pill box Be safe, plan ahead and follow any Saltings Lion Camp FP Canewdon Poultry Creeksea Road Farm BeaconThe routeHall Farm is clearly signposted and Wharf ScaldhurstWickford Hockley Hill signs Farm FP PagleshamGlenesk New Hall Farm Rayleigh Mill

you through a rich variety waymarked in both directions.Gays Lane Using B1013 Hatch Church High Street A127 Larkhill Ave FP FP River Roach Note: The gates to Leave gates and property as you findRaymonds Lion A130 FP Rochford this booklet should make your Farm Wades Basildon Benfleet A127 St Nicholas Church A House village The of landscapes from the are locked at dusk. school drain A13 experience moregreen enjoyable. We rec- them Haven Lambourne Hall CreekseaRoad power line Lane Anchor Lambourne Hall A13 Southend on Sea Lark Hill Road ommend that you use this leaflet in

Sycamore ancient woodlands of Canvey Way Protect plants and animals andTakeley take Island Road conjunctionAnchor with Lane the OrdnanceGardener's Lane FP Sunrise0 2 4 6 8 10 Km your litter home Lambourne White House Mead Moon's Farm FarmSurvey Explorer map numbered 175 Paglesham Creek HockleyFarm to the expansive Cottages Moon's Lark Hill Road Loftmans Road Keep dogs under Aclose control Cottage The Roach Valley Way is clearly and 176 available for purchase at Corner Hydewood Lane Newholme Moon's Scott's Hall Farm coastal marginsCanewdon Roadof the most good book shops or online at Loftmans Ashingdon Highsteppers waymarked in both directions with Consider other people FP Glazebrook Hyde Farm Woodits unique blue plaques and www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk For more information on the Loftmans Roach and Crouch Farm Road Hydewood directional waymarkers. These Trinity Farm For public transport information, Wood Countryside Code visit St Andrews Church together with the guide book, should contact the Essex Traffic Control estuaries. Mink www.naturalengland.co.uk FP Farm Woodsidemake the walk easy to follow. The Chase Church Centre between 7am and 7pm on Road 0845 600 0110 or Paglesham Rainbow Allow nine hours if you intend to drain Churchend Cottage www.essex.gov.uk/travel. Homefield Radio tackle it in a day, or attempt it in Farm Mast Rouncefall Clifton Road stages that suit your method of travel St Peters Parking may be found in Rochford Church Church FP and the speed that you would wish FP Hall ASHINGDON and Hockley Woods, on road parking FP to walk it. in villages along the route. 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 Southend FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Blatches Way Orchard Cherry 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

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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

Mount Bovers Lane shops in 1884. The existing square was Barton Parson's drain Hall mud Snipe last used for cattle trading in 1959. 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 Southend FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Peculiar People - a unique religious sect Cherry Orchard Way Orchard Cherry Blatches indigenous to Essex, originated in Rochford. Cherry Southend Airport Blatches

Chase Orchard Their names come from the Book of Deuteronomy, Sutton Road River Roach chapter 14, “The Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself”. James Banyard, a Nearby was the parish pump which Broomhills was formerly the home of the Rochford shoe maker founded the sect in 1838. Airport Works supplied the whole village with water at 18th century magistrate, Captain John His congregation endured widespread hostility one farthing a pailful. Harriott, founder of the Thames River Po- as their practices were regarded with suspicion. This was superceded lice. Despite his position, he made use of Their attire made them readily identified as the by a horse drawn cart the illegal activity of smuggling, prevalent men were clean shaven and wore bowler hats, which carried water in the area at this time. In his ‘Struggles whilst the ladies wore black bonnets. They re- from Southend to be through Life’ he records how in 1786 he jected orthodox medicine and were frequently in sold in Rochford at sought out smugglers at an inn in Dunkirk court on charges of manslaughter, however many half a penny a pailful. to obtain a boat ride home to England, cures were reported to occur in the homes and knowing it would land within a few miles chapels of the Peculiars by anointing with oil and 4 of his home at Stambridge. the laying on of hands. 5 drain Althorne Creek

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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

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Sycamore Stannett’s Creek was formerly a navigable South HallWay and East Hall, (so called Takeley Road watercourse from Paglesham but has Anchorbecause Lane of their locationGardener's Lane in relation to FP Sunrise Lambourne White House Mead Moon's Farm Farm Paglesham Creek Farm since been dammed to form a settling St Peter’s Church), are examples of early Cottages Moon's Lark Hill Road Loftmans Road A Cottage lagoon which provides an important medieval farmsteads whose ownership Corner Hydewood Lane Newholme Moon's Scott's Hall Farm Canewdon Road watering and preening site for resident can be traced back to two freemen during Loftmans Ashingdon Highsteppers FP Glazebrook Hyde wildfowl and overwintering birds such as the reign of Edward the Confessor. The Wood Farm Loftmans dark bellied brent geese. estates were eventually passed down to Farm Road Hydewood Trinity Farm Wood Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow. St Andrews Church Mink FP East Hall, the most easterly point of the Farm Woodside The Chase Church Road walk, was formerly known as ‘Paklesham Paglesham Rainbow Hall’ and was once owned by Lord Rich of drain Churchend Cottage Homefield Radio Rochford. In 1944, East Hall and the Farm Mast Rouncefall Clifton Road surrounding land was given to the nation St Peters Church Church FP for use by the National Vegetable FP Hall ASHINGDON FP Research Station for seed trials. FP Winton Haw FP Stannett’s Creeek Both halls have now been replaced by Greensward Lane Ingulfs Lane modern houses, but the old brew house FP East Hall Station White Hart The O.B.S. Cottages were built in the mid Kennels and part of its moat can still be seen at Claverham 19th century by Lady Olivia Bernard Spar- Cottage Jubilee FP East Hall Road East Hall. Paglesham Road Cottages HOCKLEY Spa Road Clements Hall row, who at the time owned South and South The Nest Hall Lane Elm trees were extensively planted on drain Aldermans Hill Main Road East Hall Farms. During her lifetime, Lady

Durham Rd Southend Rd roadsides throughout most of Britain Chapel Victor Gardens Olivia strove to provide an education for OBS Cottages White Hart Lane from Victorian times and in Essex became FP Glenthorpe New Cotts Road Key the poorer children of Essex. During the Bullwood Rd Woodlands Footpath Public Conveniences early 19th century, there was no formal distinctive features of the rural landscape. South Paglesham Road Great Bull Hockley Rise The HAWKWELL Bridleway A Bus stop drain Hall Wood Priory FP church education system and the only schools These majestic trees provided local Farm Kilnwood Main Road Ave other path or bridleway Parking Claybrick Cl which did exist were private, fee paying landmarks and three hollow elm pollards Refreshments stile or gate ones. The vast majority of poor children which stood on the bend of the road near Beeches school pond or lake Wood Footbridge were therefore deprived of an East Hall until the early 1980s are the View point Great Stannetts Hockley FP finger post education. Lady Olivia was responsible for subject of much folklore. Known as the Woods Stambridge 'Green Lane' 0 Scale 0.5 the 1 Kilometre construction of Day Schools and, with ‘Three Old Widows’, these hollow trees Bullwood Hall the help of Rev Herschell, ensured that were reputedly used by smugglers to hide 0 0.25 0.5 Mile Trout Peartree their bootyFisheries and tales are told of up to Whitbreds Cottage many of the poorer children of Hadleigh Hampton Wood The Old Barns Stannetts Creek Mount and Leigh were taught to read and write,Rectory £200Brick worth of silk being hidden in them drain Bovers providing opportunities previously denied at Houseany one time. In 1888, J.F.T.W. a writerFP Mount Bovers Lane Barton Parson's and journalist in the County,drain refers to Hall mud Snipe to them. O.S.B. Cottages, Paglesham these trees in ‘A legend of Paglesham’. River Roach Bartonhall New He tells how lovers would meet by the Creek England school mud Stambridge Road Winter's trees under the moonlight to spoon and mud GustedLane Hall Ironwell Lane Stambridge Road Ashingdon Road drain Black Hall Road listen to the nightingales. Unfortunately Cottage Potash Wood school Coombes the trees have now gone but their ROCHFORD A mud Gustedhall Farm church Woods START memories live on through these stories. 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 6 Mill Broomhills MHW 7 River Roach Head Cherry B1013 Orchard La Rochford mud Cottons Hall New House River Roach FP Watt's Boat FP Lane Purdey's Yard Farm mud River Roach Tinker's Lane MHW

Southend Road Southend FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Blatches Way Orchard Cherry Cherry Southend Airport Blatches

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Airport Works Paglesham The Roach Valley Way passes through drain many historic villages including Althorne Creek Paglesham Churchend and Canewdon. In the 19th century, many of the residents The of these two villages were employed in Cliff

either agriculture, the oyster trade or boat Black Point building. However the mosaic of rivers Bridgemarsh Island drain and creeks provided a land and sea mud pattern ideal for one of the most lucrative mud drain Lower Cliff Reach MHW occupations – smuggling! This ‘free trade’ Paglesham Churchend MHW Raypit's Nature reached its height in the late 18th to early Reserve As you Raypitswalk Reach along the seawall from Lion 19th century when almost the entire local Easter Reach MHW Creek to Lower Raypits Farm it may seem Lands mud population seems to have been quitemud remote and isolated but you are not End implicated to a greater or lesser extent. alone. The patch of salt marsh, sea walls,drain Tideways The most notorious Paglesham smuggler mudflats and grazing marsh supports an drain was William Blyth, aka ‘Hard Apple’. He abundance of wildlifeUpper and, as a result, Raypits was a churchwarden and grocer in the both the Roach and Crouch Estuaries have drain drain Old Fleet village and used pages torn from the been designated Sites of Special Lower Scientific Interest by Natural England. Raypits parish registers to wrap up butter and River Crouch bacon! He is renowned not only for his The estuary provides a valuable feeding exploits with Custom officials but also for ground and roosting area for visiting mud consuming whole kegs of brandy and wildfowl and waders including the dark eating wine glasses!Pudsey bellied brent geese now present in drain Hall internationally important numbers. Other bird hide Riverside The oyster has throughout history played Lion Creek Timber Pudsey Hall Lane Village Yard an important role in the coastal diet and birds to look out for include blacktailed Nature Reserve Holiday Bolt Butts Hill pill box Park Hallgodwits, shovelers, shelducks, redshanks economy, and no more so than at Market Wallasea Hill Paglesham. While in early history, oysters and dunlin, so don’t forget your Creek Island CANEWDON Lion binoculars. pill box Saltings Lion Camp would simply be dredged straight from the FP Canewdon Poultry Creeksea Road Farm Beacon Hall Farm Wharf Scaldhurst Glenesk Hill New Hall Farm FP mudFarm flats or layings, of rivers and estuaries, MillIt is not only birds that make the Crouch Hatch Church High Street Gays Lane by the 18th centuryLarkhill the Ave cultivation of oysters FP Raymonds Lion FP FP andNote: Roach The gates special. to The dykes and had become an increasingly specialised and St Nicholas Church A Farm Wades House seawallsare locked support at dusk. nationallyvillage scarce plantsschool The green drain large scale industry. This culminated in the such as beaked tassel weed and sea Haven Lambourne Hall CreekseaRoad power line Lane 19th century with the establishment of largeLark Hill Road Anchor Lambourne Hall

Sycamore barley and more than 50 insectsWay and Takeley Road companies such as the Roach River Anchor Lane Gardener's Lane FP Sunrise spiders which are scarce or rare in Britain Lambourne White House Mead Moon's Company. The peak ofFarm oyster cultivation Farm Paglesham Creek Farm have been recorded, for example, the Cottages Moon's Lark Hill Road Loftmans came in the mid nineteenth century, at a Road A Cottage scarce emerald damselfly and Roesel’s Corner Hydewood Lane Newholme Moon's Scott's Hall time when oystersFarm were considered the Canewdon Road Loftmans Ashingdon bush cricket. The grazing marsh and Highsteppers common food of poor Londoners. During its FP Glazebrook Hyde Wood grassy seawalls are home to small Farm heyday there were approximately 80 to 100 Loftmans mammals and birds of prey such as hen Farm Road Hydewood boats and 160 to 200 people engaged in the Trinity Farm Wood St Andrews industry on the Crouch and Roach estuaries. harriers and short eared owls can be seen Church Mink hunting over the grassland in winter. FP The industry began to decline at the Farm Woodside The Chase Church beginning of the 20th century and despite Road Paglesham Rainbow many attempts to revive it, it has never drain Churchend Cottage really recovered. Homefield Radio Farm 8 9 Mast Rouncefall Roesel’s Bush Cricket. (David Warner/EWT) Adder (David Warner/EWT) 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 South The Nest Hall Lane drain Aldermans Hill Main Road

Durham Rd Southend Rd Chapel Victor Gardens OBS Cottages White Hart Lane 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 The Old Barns Stannetts Creek Mount Rectory Brick drain Bovers House FP

Southend Road Southend FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Blatches Way Orchard Cherry Cherry Southend Airport Blatches

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Airport Works Canewdon Bridgemarsh Island was originally protected from the sea on all sides. Throughout the 19th century, supersti- In the Great Tide of 1953, the coast suffered serious flooding and the tion was prevalent amongst the people remains of the Island’s walls were salvaged to fill the last breach in the sea defences at Norpits. Saltmarsh is now developing rapidly drain of the Rochford Hundred and belief in Althorne witchcraft and ghosts was common place. on the Island, providing a rich feeding ground for Creek As you stand at the top of Beacon Hill at wildlife, and silt is building up at its western end, which may eventually join it to the mainland. The Canewdon, next to St Nicholas’ Church, Cliff cast your eyes northwards down towards Black Point the River Crouch and you may catch sight Bridgemarsh Island drain of the ghost of a headless woman dressed High Street, Canewdon mud in silk. She has been seen riding down Even today, Canewdon has a reputation mud drain Lower Cliff Reach MHW the hill towards the river. On reaching the as the centre of witchcraft in the County. MHW Raypit's Nature Crouch she is said to disappear only to Reserve Some believe that witches still exist in Raypits Reach reappear on the other side of the water. Easter Reach MHW the village and claim that whenever a Lands mud stone falls from the church tower a witch mud End dies, only to be immediately replaced by drain another. The witches of Canewdon are Tideways drain reputed to be allergic to wheeled traffic Upper and cast severe glances in the direction of Raypits

drain drain Old Fleet any offending vehicles, bringing them to Lower a sudden halt. Some local cyclists are still Raypits reluctant to ride into the village for fear River Crouch that their wheels will seize up but you should be safe walking! As you climb the hill above Upper mud Raypits Farm, pause to look back Pudsey across the estuary to the hills of the drain Hall Dengie Peninsula with its scattered bird hide Riverside Lion Creek Timber Pudsey Hall Lane Village Yard communities of North Fambridge, Nature Reserve Holiday Bolt Butts Hill pill box Althorne and Burnham. Park Hall Market Wallasea Hill Island CANEWDON Lion Creek St Nicolas Church, 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

Southend Road Southend FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Blatches Way Orchard Cherry 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

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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 Hockley Woods Scaldhurst Glenesk Hill New Hall Farm FP Farm Mill This is one of the most extensive areas of ancient Hatch Church High Street Gays Lane Larkhill Ave FP Raymonds Lion FP FP Note: The gates to woodland in south Essex which has existed since St Nicholas Church A Farm Wades House are locked at dusk. village school The green drain about 12,000 BC when primeval woods covered Haven Lambourne Hall CreekseaRoad power line Lane the county after the last ice age. The name Lark Hill Road Anchor Lambourne Hall

Sycamore Way Takeley ‘Hockley’ includes the Saxon term ‘ley’ meaning Road Anchor Lane Gardener's Lane FP Sunrise Lambourne White House Mead ‘woodland clearing’. Hockley Woods still span Moon's Farm Farm Paglesham Creek Farm Cottages Moon's Lark Hill Road Loftmans over 130 hectares and have a network of over Road A Cottage Corner Hydewood Lane Newholme Moon's Scott's Hall 20km of ancient earth banks within them, Farm Canewdon Road Loftmans marking boundaries between Saxon landowners Ashingdon Highsteppers FP Glazebrook Hyde Wood and medieval parishes. The woods have been Farm Loftmans Farm Hockley Woods Road Hydewood designated a Site of Special Interest (SSSI), by Trinity Farm Wood St Andrews Natural England because of the variety of plants Church Mink which grow in there. Oak and sweet chestnut FP Farm Woodside The Chase Church prefer the higher ground, hornbeam grows in the Road Paglesham wet clay, birch in the more acidic soil, and willows, Rainbow drain Churchend Cottage Homefield Radio hazel and ash line the streams. Many ground flora Farm Mast Rouncefall species such as dog’s mercury, bluebell and wood Clifton Road St Peters Church Church anemone, will only thrive in the undisturbed soil FP FP Hall ASHINGDON Ashingdon FP of ancient woodlands. Hockley Woods are now Formerly ‘Assandune’, ‘Asses Hill’ or ‘Hill FP Winton managed by Rochford District Council using tradi- Haw FP of Assa’. Ashingdon church was built on Ingulfs tional woodland management techniques such as Greensward Lane Lane the site of a battle fought between King FP East Hall coppicing to conserve the diversity of plants and Station White Hart Canute and Edmond Ironside in 1016. Kennels Claverham animals. Cottage Jubilee FP East Hall Road Canute, the Viking king, was victorious and Paglesham Road Cottages HOCKLEY Spa Road Clements Hall South The Nest built a minster of stone and lime on the Hall Lane drain Aldermans Hill Main Road

Durham Rd Southend Rd hill for the souls of those who were slain. Chapel Victor Gardens OBS Cottages White Hart Lane Today St Andrews Church stands on this FP Glenthorpe New Cotts Road Key Bullwood Rd Woodlands site, housing a Danish flagFootpath and a model Public Conveniences Leaf identification South Paglesham Road Great Bull Hockley Rise The HAWKWELL of a Viking ship both giftsBridleway from the Danish A Bus stop drain Hall Wood Priory FP church Farm Kilnwood Main Road Parking Ave Embassy. other path or bridleway Claybrick Cl stile or gate Refreshments Beeches school St Andrew’s also features an old sundial Wood Footbridge pond or lake carved into its wall by the south entrance Stannetts Hockley FP finger post View point Great Woods Common Beech Pedunculate Oak and an unusual clock commemorating Stambridge 'Green Lane' 0 Scale 0.5 1 Kilometre Bullwood King Edward VII, try reading the time. Hall 0 0.25 0.5 Mile Trout Peartree Fisheries Whitbreds Cottage Hampton Wood The Old Barns Stannetts Creek Mount Rectory Brick drain Bovers House Field Maple Hornbeam 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 Holly Hazel Ashingdon Road drain Black Hall Road Cottage Potash Wood school Common St Andrews Church, Coombes ROCHFORD A mud Gustedhall Hawthorn Ashingdon Farm church 12 Woods START 13 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 Southend FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Blatches Way Orchard Cherry 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

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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 Gusted Hall was named after Peter Grist- HomefieldBrick Works Radio Rochford Hall dates back to the twelfth Farm Mast Rouncefall ede in the early fourteenth century. Brick making is one of the world’sClifton most Road century and has been home to many St Peters Church Church It passed to William Harrys in 1558, whose ancient crafts with sunFP dried bricks being noblemen, including the Earls of FP Hall ASHINGDON FP family attained great wealth and made in the Middle East over 10,000 Ormond, Warwick and Wiltshire, Lord FP importance and was connected with the years ago. The Romans introduced brick Rich, a tudor Chancellor of England and Winton Haw Percys, Earls of Northumberland. making toFP England during the first century Thomas Boleyn, father of ill fated Anne. Greensward Lane Ingulfs Lane FP East Hall White Hart AD producing tile like bricks 1” to 2” thick The Hall was once one of the greatest In 1840, StationGusted Hall estate contained Kennels Claverham and up to 24” square. houses in the county, with walls up to Cottage Jubilee FP East Hall Road 135 acres of woodland and pasture and Paglesham Road Cottages Clements Hall 2’6” thick and between 3 to 4 courtyards. HOCKLEYwas soldSpa Road to George Wood, a solicitor from Following the fall of the Roman Empire, Rochford Hall South The Nest Hall Lane drain Aldermans Hill Main RoadRochford, who built up a valuable library brick making in England lapsed until the The Hall suffered a turbulent history; Durham Rd Southend Rd during Henry VIII’s reign. The ill fated hall Chapel Victor Gardens OBS Cottages of 3,250 books. He was Whitealso Hart a Lane keen twelfth century when Essex and Suffolk the original stone manor house being caught fire once again in 1760 and FP Glenthorpe New Cotts Road Key Bullwood Rd horticulturist who planted orchards and pioneered its revival. The lack of natural demolished in the fifteenth century and Woodlands Footpath remainedPublic in ruinsConveniences for some time. South Paglesham Road Great Bull shrubs onHockley the Rise estate. Some of his building stone and expansive clay soils rebuilt by Thomas Earl of Ormond. Further The HAWKWELL Bridleway EventuallyA Bus itsstop Elizabethan windows were drain Hall Wood Priory FP church Farm specimenKilnwood trees can be seenMain Road today lining led to extensive use of brick in Essex. It destruction was inflicted otherby fire path orwhen bridleway a Parking ClaybrickAve Cl replaced and Tudor brickwork plastered the northern boundary of The Scrubs. was also relatively cheap compared to candle was left on the altar in the private stile or gate over. TheRefreshments Hall is now home to a golf club Beeches school building stone, strong and more durable chapel. Between 1429 and 1433, Mathew Wood Footbridge and privatepond residencies.or lake than wood. The old brick works are long Brykmason and his ’Brekman’ were paid Stannetts Hockley FP finger post View point Great Woods gone and the site redeveloped. for building the vault of a new chapel, As you pass under the railway bridge Stambridge 'Green Lane' 0 Scale 0.5 1 Kilometre Bullwood repairing walls, underpinning a new barn to walk up West Street, note the culvert Hall and making the end0 of the old 0.25parlour 0.5which Mile carries a tributary of the River Trout Peartree Fisheries Whitbreds Cottage Hampton Wood next to the moat with stones called Bryke. Roach and opposite the almshouses The Old Barns Stannetts Creek Mount given by Richard Lord Rich in his will of Rectory Brick drain Bovers It was restored again by Thomas Boleyn House FP and later improved by Lord Rich 1567 but not built until the 17th century. GustedhallMount Wood Bovers Lane Barton Parson's Primrose Wood 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 Southend FP Brick Golf Course FP Works Rochehall Way Fleethall Creek River Roach power lines Blatches Way Orchard Cherry Cherry Southend Airport Blatches

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14 Airport Works 15 This booklet is issued by Essex County Council, Environment, Sustainability and Highways, Public Rights of Way Team. You can contact us in the following ways:

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Published October 2010 DS10 2351 DS10

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