Hitchin Circular walk
Across the most north easterly Chilterns ridge to Pegsdon Hills and Knocking Hoe NNR. A motte-and-double bailey and an abandoned medieval village and the Oughton chalk river
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • Cymbidium Clarisse on Flickr
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Criss cross
Hitchin Circular Note the others speeding off into the distance
03-Jul-16 • moontiger on Flickr
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Bugs on wild parsnip
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03-Jul-16 • moontiger on Flickr
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Wild parsnip
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Bugs on hogweed
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Bugs on scabious
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Approaching the descent (shortcut 1)
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03-Jul-16 • moontiger on Flickr
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The descent (shortcut 1)
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Orchid (shortcut 1)
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03-Jul-16 • moontiger on Flickr
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Oatfield (shortcut 1)
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Poppies in rapefield
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03-Jul-16 • moontiger on Flickr
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Oughtonhead Nature Reserve
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Tree wearing a jumper
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03-Jul-16 • moontiger on Flickr
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Wool arrow
(advertising a wool festival in t'church) Hitchin Circular
03-Jul-16 • moontiger on Flickr
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Sweeping fields of cereal and poppies
along the Chiltern Way
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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Early lunch option?
by the Hiz river
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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Not Bobby's
but Sir Henry Bessemer FRS
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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Summer bales
Anyone for a roll in the hay?
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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In pursuit of the dynamic duo
just minutes from a pub lunch
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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Vista
Pegsdon Hills & Hoo Bit Nature Reserve
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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'Live and Let Live'
Pub in the village of Pegsdon, Herts
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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More cereal, a hill and in the far distance...
...Pulloxhill water tower..
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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'overgrown metal field gate'
Hoe National nature reserve
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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Oughtonhead Common
Hitchin's local nature reserve
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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They heard we were coming
The Half Moon, Hitchin
27-Jun-15 • magyardave2002 on Flickr
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The others
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27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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Bessemer plaque
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Small totoiseshell
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Frothy white stuff
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Wild parsnip
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27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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Down to the Luton Road
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27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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Stately avenue
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27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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Pyramidal orchid
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27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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Wheatfield
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27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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Greens and golds
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27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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Carved arch
Oughtonhead Natyre Reserve, Hitchin Circular
27-Jun-15 • moontiger on Flickr
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View from Hitchin Hill
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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View from Hitchin Hill to Charlton
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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One guy knows the way
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Following the Chiltern way
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Uphill near Great Offley, by Aldwicks Plantation
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The Red Lion, Great Offley
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Views from Great Offley to Lilley and Warden and Galley Hills
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The not-so-dangerous crossing of the A505
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Water Tower in Great Offley
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View down Lilley Hoo
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On the Icknield Way
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Pegsdon Hills with the Bedfordshire Plain
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Pegsdon Hills
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Pegsdon Hills
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Steep Down
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Two walkers on the alternative descent-route
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a curving Down
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Views back up the Pegsdon Hills
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Views back up the Pegsdon Hills
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Pegsdon Hills
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Pegsdon Hills
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The Terrace of The Live and Let Live
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The Terrace of The Live and Let Live
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Deacon Hill from The Live and Let Live
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Post-Lunch Ascent
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Pegsdon Hills from Knocking Hoe
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Deacon Hill from Knocking Hoe
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Steep Down post-lunch
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The Water Tower in Meppershall
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Poppy
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Knocking Hoe NNR
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Knocking Hoe NNR
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The Icknield Way
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Westmill Farm
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Westmill Farm
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Hitchin Waterfall (the millstream overflow)
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Oughtonhead Common Local Nature Reserve
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Oughtonhead Common Local Nature Reserve
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Oughtonhead Common Local Nature Reserve
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The Chalky bathing place
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crystal clear water
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Towards the Oughton Wellhead
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Towards the Oughton Wellhead
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Towards the Oughton Wellhead
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Oughtonhead Farm Garden Gate Tea Room
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Oughtonhead Farm Garden Gate Tea Room
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Oughtonhead Farm Garden Gate Tea Room
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views back from Hitchin's fringes
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views back from Hitchin's fringes
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Shops in Hitchin
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Market Place, Hitchin, with cabmen's shelter
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Old Inns in Bucklersbury, Hitchin
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Gateway of The Red Hart
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Tilehurst Street
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Angel Vault Inn in Sun Street
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along Churchyard
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Halsey's and The Rose & Crown
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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St. Mary's, Hitchin
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Narrow alleyway near the church in Hitchin
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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CAMRA Pub of the Year Herts, repeatedly: The Half Moon
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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St. Mary's, Hitchin in dusk
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27-Jun-15 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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