margaret’s walks

HEALTH & FITNESS Margaret’s walks

An Introduction....

Margaret’s Walks was compiled by a local walking group made up of a few friends, including Margaret. Now 87, Margaret has been exploring the local Bedfordshire Margaret & Bill countryside for many years. Over the last 14 years she has regularly walked with her friends, plus a dog or two, and with their help has documented the walks.

The walks take you across countryside, by rivers and streams, woods and hills, plus interesting buildings, villages and streets.

These described walks, with added useful directions, make good circular walks. We hope you enjoy them.

Walk Number 23. Henlow camp/ Arlesey (about 4 miles) Park outside shops in Henlow Camp. About £2 for 3 hours.

Walk towards Henlow Camp. Pass the main gate to the camp and cross the road at the lights. Take a road on the right - Oldfield Farm Road - towards open fields. Turn right along drive to Oldfield Farm with wooden fencing on the right.

At the Oldfield Farm sign, you will be directed left onto a footpath. The footpath takes you alongside the road and then left with farm buildings on the other side of a hedge, on the right.

At the footpath T-junction and waymarker, turn right, walk towards the farm buildings and then pass them with the sheds on the right. When you see the barrier gate, look left and walk towards the waymarker. Turn right. Then turn left onto the track.

Continue walking to a wooden bridge but do not cross. Turn left and, keeping hedge and ditch on right, keep going, ignoring a path on the left, past a waymarker and over a little bridge, till you reach a gate.

Go through, and cross field (horses) to the bridge over river. Cross the bridge and turn left, following river on the left and pass through a gate. You will be on a shady (muddy) track alongside the river.

Continue to follow the river, pass through a metal gate onto a concreted path past a tree nursery on the right. The path leads out through a gate into a field. There will be a bridge on the left [not ahead]. Go over 2 bridges, through a gate and follow track leading left, and then straight ahead, past 2 waymarkers, back to Oldfield Farm Road and Hen low Camp.