Hainult Forest - 3.4 miles

5:00pm Wednesday 16th January 2008

IT'S over five years since I last visited Hainault Forest for this series (walks 9 & 12) and I intend to remedy my neglect with at least three walks over the next two months or so.

Covent Garden - 1.8 miles

11:38am Friday 4th January 2008

THIS is a deceptively short walk which has all kinds of temptations built into it.

The Owl pub to Fernhills

10:20am Friday 7th December 2007

TRUELOVE'S and Fernhills are relatively recent acquisitions for Epping Forest, the latter being purchased in 1997.

Hatfield Forest - 4.8 miles

5:57pm Wednesday 14th November 2007

In September the Stop Stansted Expansion Campaign (SSE) organised a Runway Ramble' through Hatfield Forest.

The poets' walk - Lippits Hill

4:02pm Wednesday 7th November 2007

THIS WALK runs along little known Bridleways which give two fantastic views across Herts and Essex.

Thordon Country Park - 3.8 miles

4:46pm Wednesday 31st October 2007

In August, I joined 32 members of the Havering and East London Group Ramblers on their regular Tuesday morning walk.

Dunstable Downs - five miles

2:00pm Monday 22nd October 2007

The astonishing Dunstable Downs form the Eastern extremity of the Chiltern Hills, it is therefore appropriate that the new state-of-the-art Bedfordshire County Council/National Trust visitor facility should be called the Chilterns Gateway Centre.

Totternhoe, Bedfordshire - 7.4miles

4:10pm Wednesday 17th October 2007

WE start the walk from the village of Totternhoe, and walk through the nature reserve which comprises the Totternhoe Knolls to visit the earthworks on Castle Hill which are the remains of a late 11th or 12th C castle.

Connaught Waters - four miles

5:27pm Wednesday 10th October 2007

TAKING really young children for a walk can require a lot of planning. If you have one of those posh and expensive all-terrain buggies you can go practically anywhere but there are great limitations for the ordinary pushchair.

Lee Valley (part two) - 3.7 miles

4:25pm Wednesday 3rd October 2007

The second Lee Valley Walk in conjunction with the Lee valley Park's 40th anniversary was designed by Eric Wilton, Senior Ranger.

New River (30 miles total) Part Seven)

4:44pm Wednesday 19th September 2007

THE climax of this, the final stage of our 28 mile walk along the course of the New River is the arrival at the Visitor Viewing Point at New River Head.

Lee Valley (Leyton and Walthamstow Marshes) - one hour

9:25am Friday 14th September 2007

The Lee Valley along with Epping Forest form the greatest walking assets for East London.

New River Path (30 miles total): Part Six

9:32am Friday 7th September 2007

The excitement of urban walking is that you can never be quite sure about what is just around the corner. Places which are familiar to you when you travel by bus or car give up fresh revelations to the walker.

Hatfield House - 3.4 miles

9:07am Friday 7th September 2007

When Elizabeth I was living at the Old Palace in the grounds of Hatfield House she learnt that she had become the monarch. The main house, built by Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burghley, Elizabeth's chief minister wasn't completed until 1611.

New River Path (30 miles total): Part Five

12:55pm Wednesday 22nd August 2007

After an attractive and peaceful exit from Enfield Town along the redundant loop of the river we catch up with the real thing which has been carried by pipes to the bottom of Bush Hill.

Princess Diana memorial walk - seven miles: Part two

6:25pm Tuesday 14th August 2007

Good paths, panoramic views and a chance to enjoy peace and tranquillity in Central London.

New River Path (30 miles total): Part Four

2:22pm Wednesday 8th August 2007

FOR the fourth stage we start off tantalisingly close to Theobalds Park and then make a major discovery; what you had always thought was an ordinary footbridge across the M25 just west of Junction 25 is in fact the New River avoiding the traffic jams below. Besides a few more davits and pumping stations we pass examples of the automatic machinery which keeps the river so unusually clean.

Princess Diana memorial walk - seven miles: Part one

1:39pm Wednesday 1st August 2007

A walk for all times of the year and one to show off to your friends.

New River Path 5.1 miles (30 miles total): Part Three

10:57am Monday 23rd July 2007

THE most beguiling feature when walking alongside the New River is the very gentle nature of the flow; just enough to pull the green filaments of the weeds horizontally but slow enough to enable most walkers to walk faster than the piece of straw which may be carried on its surface.

Route of the River Ching

7:00am Thursday 19th July 2007

IT was a wet Sunday morning when John Francis of the West Essex Ramblers led a group of the Highams Park Society on a walk of discovery to follow the route of the River Ching.

Miliband issues advice to Russia

Updated 9:27am Thursday 28th August 2008

Britain does not want to launch an "all-out war" with Russia following the country's decision to recognise two breakaway regions, David Miliband said.

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