Designer shopping and country living Braintree and Great Dunmow routes Total distance of main route is 87km/54miles Cobbs 1 7 5 5 Fenn A Debden 0 B1053 0 1 1 1 Short rides B B 0 1 T B1 7 HA 05 XTED 3 RO A A 9.5km/5.9miles D R i v A B 1 e 1 1 r 24 8 P Finchingfield B 32.8km/20.5miles B 4 a 1 n 3 t 83 Debden C 8.9km/5.5miles Green 51 Hawkspur 10 Green B B 7 1 A 5 0 11 D 23.5km/14.7miles 0 5 2 1 1 3 B 4 3 1 Widdington A E 20km/12.5miles Thaxted Wethersfield 7 F 12.8km/8miles 1 0 Little Bardfield 1 Blackmore A G 13.8km/8.6miles 2 End B ROAD 105 H 32.4km/20.2miles BARDFIELD Great 3 Bardfield I 12.6km/7.9miles 1 m 5 B a 0 7 iver C 1 05 R 1 8 1 B 4 J 14km/8.8miles Cherry Green B Gosfield HALSTEAD N Rotten ORTH HAL End L RD 1 05 1 B1 3 Richmond’s S 1 Attractions along this route H A Shalford A Green L FO RD R Holder’s OA 1 Broxted Church D B r Green Monk 1 e 0 5 2 Henham lm Street Great Bardfield Museum Visitor Centre e 3 h . C 3 1 R Saling Hall Garden 5 7 B 0 1 1 0 B 1 8 1 4 Blake House Craft Centre E 4 1 B A M N A 0 1 L 5 I B1 3 L 0 1 51 S 3 5 L B1051 M A The Flitch Way R 57 LU O 10 P A LU B B D 6 B Great Notley Country Park & Discovery Centre E 1 Lindsell A RHE DGE R GA O L S i L R AD L L N v Broxted LO EN L L A E 7 Braintree District Museum WS GRE IN E e Elsenham D S r Duton Hill P High 1 a 5 1 8 n Garrett Warner Textile Archive Gallery 0 3 Bardfield t 1 1 B Saling A 9 Freeport B B 1 1 0 0 5 10 5 Cressing Temple 7 B PI 3 3 1 L T OO S 8 W 2 R Folly Elsenham 4 O 11 AD 3 Green Pleshey Castle 1 B105 B A Great 12 Hatfield Forest R O Saling B W AY E W N 1 N 0 13 END A 53 Great Dunmow Maltings and Museum ' E L S S Gaunt’s TH Bran End TT E P S N A ICCO L H D D End R A E A R T L A Panfield O O F 3 A R O 5 D W E R 0 S D U 1 Molehill O R B B B 7 TEH O 1 Green 1 5 WHI A 0 Stisted Accommodation 8 0 5 4 1 D A B 3 1 er 3 at for details see overleaf Stebbing 1 w ck W LA a A E l R R B R E r H U R e 1 O T iv Harwood Guest House R A O S D U A P i S v E W e Bocking E r Little Stansted N 2 R BRAINTREE Homelye Farm Easton 7 4 Airport o 5 d i 0 256 n B 1 B1 A120 g 1 B 8 3 4 Fennes View 3 SHAL 4 B FO 56 A1 R 12 2 Bamber’s D RO B 0 AD Green 6 B1256 8 A 4 B125 256 1 Ballaglass B1 7 2 Bradwell B 4 0 7 1 1 Rayne 2 2 4 B1256 5 Braintree B 1 5 1256 6 1 Bury Farm A120 B B 0 N 13 1 5 O 8 B1256 T A L A 1 A120 120 E Braintree A120 12 1 Y 0 R Freeport O M A I A 0 6 L 120 D 12 20 125 L A A1 B L A A 12 GREAT N 0 9 Places to eat Little E 0 Little Takeley Canfield DUNMOW 12 B1 256 A Dunmow 1 256 B1 A120 3 Watch House 1 W 1 Starr Restaurant A IT S 6 H B10 T Green A 1 A 1 Great M 8 E T 4 I RO Tel: 01371 874321 N O 1 ı AD A N B Notley L RD S S A1 www.the-starr.co.uk O 20 Cressing R iver C C R h e H l 3 G m 5 Black I 4 e 0 2 The Green Man Restaurant H 8 r 1 Notley 1 B 3 B W 8 Felsted B I 1 SS LANE D T Tel: 01371 852285 12 CRO 1 A H Cressing B H 4 RO Molehill IGH 1 A 7 OW M Silver End A LL Green 1 O M R www.thegreenmanrestaurant.com D H O 3 A A A H 0 O I N D R Yo ung’s 10 L R IL C D End B 3 Timbers Restaurant M 1 1 0 Thistley 1 13 8 Tel: 01376 552553 Green A M B O D 1 F ULS A www.timbersrestaurant.co.uk 4 RO White 1 E H LAN 'S E 7 LA A M ETT N M A Notley N E H N H T E I 4 La Piazza B A L W North End L 4 Onslow 8 A 1 Green 1 BAN Tel: 01376 342593 B 3 T 0 ER S White Notley L Great R A www.piazzarestaurant.co.uk N i 1 Canfield v E 3 Bishop’s e 1 r A Green T e 5 White Horse r Great E 3 Leighs N Tel: 01245 237281 8 A 1 L L B L High I B www.thewhitehorsepleshey.co.uk Littley M 1 0 Roding Green Faulkbourne 1 Ford 8 7 End 1 Little Fairstead A 4 D Leighs 13 1 0 B 4 Church This map is intended as a guide only. Please refer to relevant 183 8 B Hatfield 1 End OS Explorer maps for specific details. B A 1 Broad Oak Ringtail 3 G Green 0 1 3 3 8 1 Fuller Street 1 A B Key Chipping Hill Hatfield Cycle Route 2 Terling Heath A10 Aythorpe 60 Roding WITHAM Short rides Roundbush A B Green High 1 Traffic-free section 1 Pleshley 3 8 Easter 5 0 4 5 0 Miles 1 2 3 4 5 1 Place of worship 3 11 1 g A n i 9 A 8 106 d 3 Telephone in rural area 0 o 1 0 Kilometres 2 4 R 6 8 B r e Public House A106 iv Leaden 0 R Roding Great National Rail 1060 Waltham A 1 A 8 1 0 30 Accommodation Clatterford 0 1 B1389 End Minnow B R i 1 A End v 12 Restaurants 1 e A 0 6 Reproduced from Ordnance Survey mapping with the permission of the r 0 T Manwood e controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown Copyright. 8 r 2 1 ı Cycle Hire Green B Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution 1 A 0 1 Little 1 8 or civil proceedings. Essex County Council. Licence no: 100019602, 2006 Good Easter Waltham Hatfield Hatfield B 4 : Peverel Peverel Great Dunmow with his wife within a year and a day after Attractions along the route: The name Dunmow has evolved and the marriage’. The custom lapsed on 1. Broxted Church originally meant a “fortified hill” home the dissolution of the monasteries, was The church dates from the early English of a tribe of ancient Britons and many briefly revived in the 18th century and period with a north aisle added about prehistoric artefacts have been found became a firmly established event after two hundred years later. The oak pulpit is in and around the town. Today, Great 1885. Held every four years on a leap 300 years old, as is the fine processional Dunmow retains the atmosphere of a year, the winning couple is paraded cross. Roman tiles can be seen built into prosperous market town whilst keeping through the town on a special chair the walls. There are also two remarkable its old charm that exudes from many and then awarded their “flitch” or side windows, dedicated in January 1993, historic buildings such as the ‘Old Town of bacon with much celebration. The commemorating the captivity and the Hall’ of 1578 and the ‘Clock House’ original ‘bacon chair’ can be viewed in release of the Beirut hostages. of 1586 as well as the newly restored Little Dunmow parish church. The parish ‘Maltings’ in Mill Lane. church of St Mary dates mainly from the 2. Great Bardfield Museum 5. The Flitch Way Steeped in history, Great Dunmow 14th and 15th centuries and is situated 19th century village lock-up and Rayne Station Centre exhibition and the is the contemporary setting for the on the banks of the River Chelmer. Also 16th century charity cottage housing Flitch Way, offers fifteen miles of former Dunmow Flitch Trials. This ceremony along the banks is the recreation ground agricultural and domestic artefacts from railway for walkers, cyclists and horse- dates from 1104 when the Lord of the which provides a very pleasant green 19th and 20th centuries, plus rural crafts riders. Pick up a trail guide at the centre.