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One of the steepest roads in the town, westbound. If you're travelling south on Rye Street and want to get onto Cricketfield Lane, you're better off continuing south on Rye Street, turning right into Barrells Down Road and immediately left onto Elm Road - all of which mostly keeps you on level ground. Don't waste your energy for zero gain.

Best traversed southbound for the downhill.

This is where we meet up for rides.

Beautiful spot to stop on the bridge over the pond. Only a small wooden bridge but quaint.

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.

The history of Waytemore Castle is shrouded in mystery. It is thought that it was a Saxon fortress built in the 10th century against invasion by the Danes but there is no record of it in the Domesday Book of 1086, a thorough survey and record of England commissioned by William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Now all you can see of the castle is the mound on which it stood and the stream to the south and west which would have been a much larger moat. The ruins on top are much later than 10th or 11th century. It has never been excavated for archeological research so who knows what secrets it holds.

Bishop's Stortford is a large commuter town that expanded rapidly from the Second World War onwards. It's home to the motte-and-bailey castle remains of Waytemore Castle, which stand above the River Stort in the centre of the town. Being an important market town, there are many old pubs, including the timber-framed, 16th-century Black Lion.

Much Hadham is one of the oldest and prettiest villages in Hertfordshire. It boasts no less than four Grade I-listed buildings: St Andrew's Parish Church, Much Hadham Hall, Moor Place and the boundary wall at Yewtree Farmhouse at Hadham Cross. If you're seeking food while on a hike here, there's the Bull Inn or the Hoops Inn at the nearby hamlet of Perry Green, home to the Henry Moore Foundation Estate. There's also a local convenience store on the main Tower Hill road.