Hertfordshire Chain Walk
The Hertfordshire Chain Walk is a series of 15 linked circular walks in eastern Hertfordshire. Each walk is between 4.25 miles and 9 miles, and together they make up a total distance of 87 miles.
The southernmost walks are close to the urban lardscape by the Middlesex, and indeed Link 1 overlaps into Middlesex, but soon the walks enter deep within the Hertfordshire countryside. The northernmost link takes in a section of the Icknield Way on the Cambridgeshire border and ends at Ashwell and Morden railway station in Odsey, across the county boundary in Cambridgeshire.
The walk was devised by the East Herts Footpath Society.[1]
The 'links'
Each walk is a circular or a figure-of-eight walk, so any description of “to” and “from” is only general ideas of location. The south and north of each walk will join the next link in the chain. Many locations simply farms or hamlets: the path avoids villages as far as possible.
| 1 | Whitewebbs Park (Middlesex) to Crews Hill | |
| 2 | Goff's Oak to Newgate Street | |
| 3 | Goff's Oak via Bayford to Little Berkhamsted | |
| 4 | Little Berkhamsted to Letty Green | |
| 5 | Letty Green via Hertingfordbury to Marden Hill | |
| 6 | Marden Hill via Bramfield to Bramfield Woods | |
| 7 | Bramfield Woods to Watton-at-Stone | |
| 8 | Watton-at-Stone to Burn's Green / Green End | |
| 9 | Green End via Haultwick to Sander's Green | |
| 10 | Sander's Green to Moor Green | |
| 11 | Moor Green to Cottered | |
| 12 | Cottered to Whitehall | |
| 13 | Whitehall to Sandon | |
| 14 | Sandon to Therfield / Kelshall | |
| 15 | Therfield / Kelshall to Odsey (Cambridgeshire) |
Linking and nearby trails
Other footpath routes passing close to the Chain Walk include:
- The Icknield Way Path;
- The Hertfordshire Way;
- The Lea Valley Walk and
- The London LOOP.