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Overview

Walk via the river and North End.

🐕 Dogs welcome; please contact the leader if you wish to bring a dog.

Saturday, 6 September 2025
Start time:
1:30 pm
Estimated finish time:
4:00 pm
Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
8.9km / 5.5mi
Ascent:
N/A
Type:
circular

Features

  • Car parking available
  • Dog friendly
  • No car needed

Starting point

Grid reference:
TL 67763 16846
Nearest postcode:
CM3 1LQ
what3words:
detriment.blueberry.office
Start time:
1:30 pm

Car Park opposite Church (on Church Lane - behind hedge) or park around Green. 🚍Bus X30/X10, alight at school 🚏

Upcoming walks with Chelmer & Blackwater Group

©️ Google & w3w

Great Baddow (Short morning walk)

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.0 miles
©️Google 2024, OpenStreetMap

Bures Dragon

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
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Parking image: ©️ Google, w3w & OpenStreetMap contributors

Springfield (Little Waltham Rd)

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
9.5 miles
©️2025 Google & w3w

Great Waltham circular

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.3 miles
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Sudbury

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Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
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Google & w3w 2025

Geoff's Memorial Walk: "Ridley Round" from Littley Green (13-14 miles)

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
13.0 miles
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Geoff's Memorial Walk (10 mile version): adapted "Ridley Round" from Littley Green

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
Google & w3w 2025

Geoff's Memorial Walk : 5 mile version, circular from Littley Green

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
5.0 miles
©️ Google & w3w

Ford End

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.5 miles
©️ Google & w3w

Chelmer Village

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.0 miles
Parking image: ©️ Google, w3w & OpenStreetMap contributors

Springfield (Little Waltham Rd)

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
9.5 miles
©️ Google, w3w & OpenStreetMap

Shotley to Pin Mill and back

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
©️ Flickr (CC) The Manors, Silver End Home of the founder, industrialist Francis Crittall

Silver End

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
3.0 miles
©️ Google, w3w & OpenStreetMap

Galleywood Common, Horse & Groom

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.0 miles
©️ Google, w3w & OpenStreetMap

Galleywood Common, Horse and Groom

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.0 miles
©️ Google & w3w

Terling

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
5.2 miles
©️ Google, w3w & OpenStreetMap

Galleywood Common, Horse and Groom (Figure of 8)

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
Parking details; Google & w3w

Little Waltham

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.5 miles
©️Google & w3w

Writtle

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
5.0 miles
©️ 2024 Google & w3w

Danbury (Blakes Wood, Little Baddow)

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
©️ Google, w3w, OpenStreetMap & Black Lion

High Roding (Short morning walk)

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.0 miles
©️ Google Earth, Google, w3w & OpenStreetMap, 2024

Pleshey

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
5.0 miles
©️2025 OpenStreetMap, Google & w3w

Goldhanger

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
5.8 miles
©️ 2024 Google & w3w

Galleywood

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
5.0 miles

Join the Ramblers and enjoy

  • unlimited free access to 50,000 Ramblers group walks
  • a library jam-packed with thousands of tried-and-tested routes
  • a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our Walk magazine
  • exclusive discounts from our partners
  • knowing your support is opening up more places to walk and helping more people discover the joy of walking
Join now for just £3.58 per month
Register for an account for FREE