Pirton Offley 10 Miles

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Activity: Walking
Distance: 16.46 km
Calculated time: 5h 00
Difficulty: Not specified
Return to departure point: Yes
Vertical gain: + 112 m
Vertical drop: - 114 m
Highest point: 164 m
Lowest point: 62 m

Country: United Kingdom
Area: Chiltern Hills
District: North Hertfordshire
Start/End: N 51.946463° / W 0.288919°
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Description

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If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

S/E : km 0 - alt. 86 m - Start on Pirton Road, B655
2 : km 0.11 - alt. 92 m - Turn right onto High View
3 : km 0.33 - alt. 87 m - Turn left onto Gray's Lane
4 : km 0.43 - alt. 89 m - Turn left onto Crow Furlong
5 : km 0.44 - alt. 89 m - Turn left
6 : km 0.87 - alt. 71 m - Keep left
7 : km 1.97 - alt. 64 m - Turn left onto Oughtonhead Lane
8 : km 2.37 - alt. 70 m - Turn right onto Hitchin Road
9 : km 4.34 - alt. 71 m - Turn left onto Hitchin Road
10 : km 4.54 - alt. 75 m - Turn sharp left
11 : km 5.07 - alt. 80 m - Turn right
12 : km 5.08 - alt. 80 m - Turn left onto Wood Lane
13 : km 6.02 - alt. 125 m - Keep left
14 : km 6.53 - alt. 120 m - Turn left onto Pirton Road, B655
15 : km 6.61 - alt. 120 m - Turn left
16 : km 7.12 - alt. 129 m - Keep left
17 : km 7.14 - alt. 129 m - Turn sharp left
18 : km 7.63 - alt. 124 m - Turn left
19 : km 7.69 - alt. 122 m - Turn sharp right
20 : km 7.73 - alt. 123 m - Keep left
21 : km 7.75 - alt. 122 m - Turn slight left
22 : km 7.75 - alt. 122 m - Turn sharp right
23 : km 7.8 - alt. 123 m - Turn left
24 : km 7.81 - alt. 123 m - Turn left
25 : km 7.82 - alt. 123 m - Turn right
26 : km 7.85 - alt. 123 m - Keep left
27 : km 7.93 - alt. 125 m - Turn left
28 : km 8.97 - alt. 155 m - Turn sharp left
29 : km 9.17 - alt. 155 m - Turn slight left onto School Lane
30 : km 10.43 - alt. 158 m - Turn left onto Luton Road
31 : km 10.43 - alt. 158 m - Turn right onto High Street
32 : km 10.61 - alt. 155 m - Turn left
33 : km 10.62 - alt. 155 m - Turn right
34 : km 11.01 - alt. 155 m - Turn left onto King's Walden Road
35 : km 11.05 - alt. 155 m - Turn left onto Harris Lane
36 : km 11.2 - alt. 155 m - Turn right onto King's Walden Road
37 : km 11.23 - alt. 155 m - Turn right
38 : km 14.96 - alt. 72 m - Turn left onto Charlton Road
39 : km 15.64 - alt. 66 m - Turn left onto Willow Lane
40 : km 15.73 - alt. 67 m - Turn right onto Hawthorn Close
41 : km 15.79 - alt. 71 m - Turn right onto Hawthorn Close
42 : km 15.8 - alt. 71 m - Turn left onto Russell's Slip
43 : km 16.14 - alt. 73 m - Turn left onto Wratten Road West
44 : km 16.43 - alt. 84 m - Turn right onto Pirton Close
S/E : km 16.46 - alt. 85 m

Useful Information

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Other walks in the area

Great Offley to Charlton

Departure from Offley (Hertfordshire)

A moderate stile-free walk The walk starts in the village of Great Offley, heading south-west along the ridge above Hitchin before descending to the small hamlet of Charlton. From there, there is a steady, scenic climb back to Offley.

Preston and Hitch Wood, Chilterns

Departure from Preston (Hertfordshire)

A short circuit from Preston village through Hitch Wood, one of the finest woods in the North Chilterns. Worth following for spectacular bluebells in spring or as a pre-pub leg stretch.

Around St Pauls Walden

Departure from Langley (Hertfordshire)

A circuit around the village of St Paul’s Walden passing through some of the finest woodland in the North Chilterns and the picturesque parkland surrounding the grand houses of Stagenhoe and St Paul’s Walden Bury. The bluebells in Hitch Wood are spectacular in spring!

End of the Chilterns : Pegsdon Hills & Little Offley

Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)

This is a surprisingly hilly walk for this general area, being the northern end of the Chilterns AONB, mostly through rolling farmland, with some wonderful views across the flatlands of south Bedfordshire to the north, especially if the air is clear. Most of it is along the edges of/through fields, along grass & hard-surfaced paths & tracks. There are two tree-covered 'alleys'. It passes a large late-Tudor manor house. You will walk part of the Icknield Way & visit Pegsdon Hills Nature Reserve.

Pegsdon and Deacon Hills, Chilterns

Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)

This route offers the walker some of the most stunning views in the whole of the Chilterns and visits a number of important wildlife sites featured in the book by Gay Beattie "The Pilgrim’s Progress Wild Flowers and Where to Find Them in The Chilterns." Pegsdon and Deacon Hills were a favourite of the writer and preacher John Bunyan who referred to them in as the "Delectable Mountains".

Pegsdon and Deacon Hills

Departure from Shillington (Central Bedfordshire)

A circuit from Pegsdon, through the Pegsdon Hills Nature Reserve to Deacon Hill with its ancient earthworks. Return past a mature beech wood and Knocking Hoe reserve.