Lee Valley, Cheshunt to Broxbourne walk | Day Hike Sunday | 🇬🇧 Hiking UK | England

River Lee Country Park and Waltham Abbey.

Length: 12 km (7.5 miles)
Grading: Easy
Rating: 1 out of 10.
Hiking time: About 3 to 4 hours of actual hiking
Start: Cheshunt Station
Address: Cheshunt, Waltham Cross EN8 9AQ

The Lea Valley is a wide floodplain which has long been both an important transport corridor and a natural boundary (e.g. between the Saxons and the Danes in the Dark Ages). Its rivers provided water and power for many mills and factories, although nowadays, the journey out of London seems to offer an unbroken line of light industrial estates, warehouses and retail parks. This does not exactly lift the spirits when seen from the train, but on the Herbs/Essex border just before Cheshunt the view abruptly changes to the tree-lined lakes of River Lee Country Park. There are good opportunities for bird-watching in this wetland landscape of rivers and filled-in gravel pits, and several locations where orchids can be seen in late May and June. A series of sculptures are dotted around the park and the walk route goes past many of them.

At the end of the route, we will stop at an English pub to have a drink together and comment on the world

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