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Large outdoor seating area with plenty of room for bikes through the archway. Open from 12pm, Wed-Sun.

As the title says - freewheeling mixed with light pedalling. Watch for traffic coming the other way.

Road crossing the very scenic common next to Wall Wood, with large areas of open grassland and scattered ancient trees interspersed with old cottages. The common is grazed so there are cattle grids at the entry and exit points.

A cricket match on the village green, overlooked by a Union Jack fluttering in the breeze next to the war memorial: sometimes the cliches are true.

Plenty of up-and-down here and for me, this is best traversed southbound. There are more climbs southbound, but the worst of them is short and sharp. Northbound, the climb after crossing Pincey Brook is long and a complete a gut-buster.

Hatfield Broad Oak is a beautiful rural village that has a church, two pubs, butchers and a village shop. It's probably best known for being the closest village to Barrington Hall, a Grade II-listed red-brick country manor.

Stunning views. The road is a bridleway, so no access to motor vehicles, but it is fully paved.

Waterside Stortford is a 5.6km, flat trail which runs from Bat Willow Hurst Country Park to the north of the town, through the centre here, to just beyond Twyford Mill lock in the south. There are information points throughout the trail providing more information about the features of the trail.