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Slow Ways linking South Woodham Ferrers and Burnham-on-Crouch, Chelmsford, Maldon, Rayleigh, Rochford, Wickford
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South Woodham Ferrers’s six Slow Ways are 46% checked
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Chelmsford—South Woodham Ferrers
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Chesou one |
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Review me | Distance 17km/11mi | Ascent 104m | Descent 128m | ||
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Rayleigh—South Woodham Ferrers
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Raysou one |
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Review me | Distance 12km/8mi | Ascent 75m | Descent 131m | |
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Rayleigh—South Woodham Ferrers
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Raysou two |
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U U |
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Double check | Distance 11km/7mi | Ascent 71m | Descent 127m | |
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South Woodham Ferrers—Burnham-on-Crouch
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Soubur three |
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U U |
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Double check | Distance 21km/13mi | Ascent - | Descent - | |
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South Woodham Ferrers—Burnham-on-Crouch
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Soubur four |
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U U |
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Review me | Distance 23km/14mi | Ascent 162m | Descent 169m | ||
South Woodham Ferrers—Maldon
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Soumal one |
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U U |
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Double check | Distance 15km/9mi | Ascent 122m | Descent 98m | |
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South Woodham Ferrers—Maldon
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Soumal two |
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U U |
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Review me | Distance 14km/9mi | Ascent 140m | Descent 114m | ||
South Woodham Ferrers—Rochford
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Souroc one |
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U U |
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Pioneer me | Distance 19km/12mi | Ascent 153m | Descent 155m | ||
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Wickford—South Woodham Ferrers
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Wicsou one |
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U U |
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Review me | Distance 10km/6mi | Ascent 82m | Descent 87m |
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Collective progress
47% of South Woodham Ferrers’s six route options are drawn, reviewed, surveyed and/or verified
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8 people have contributed to South Woodham Ferrers’s Slow Ways
11 people have pledged to walk and review a route
0 people have surveyed a route in South Woodham Ferrers
123km out of 142km have been walked and reviewed
212km of reviews have been shared in South Woodham Ferrers
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There hasn't been a ferry over the river Crouch in Hullbridge for nearly a century....
Jamie Corless
Robert Proctor took this photo on Soubur three
Walk this routeFirstly, I’m walking this route in two halves’, so this review is for the first half of my route and is from North Fambridge to Burnham on Crouch. Dog friendly walk as no live stoke graze the sea wall and for most of the route to Althorne, the river crouch is on one side and a deep drainage ditch on the other, restricting where they can run off too, so can freerun. Which runs from Wickford to Southminster, relevant stops South Woodham Ferries, North Fambridge, Althorne and Burnham on crouch, this train stops at all stations and is a half hourly service most days. This has got to be the simplest route ever, if parked by station or local park walk south along Fambridge road until you see the sign for Blue House nature reserve, and turn left on a sharp right-hand bend, walk down to the car park. Althorne was a comfortable 1 & half to 2 hours into my walk and if you wish to end your walk here follow the road from the marina up to the station. Again, follow sea wall to Burnham, you have to walk around the marina, and you can cut across the park at this point to the station, however my preference is to walk along the front, find a pub and have a well-earned pint....
Robert Proctor
Thankfully, the path goes under the road beneath bridges before a simple crossing over the railway tracks (steps on either side). The footpath takes you to a bridge over the railway line then onwards to the Burnham Road (A132). Back on the south side of the Burnham Road, there’s now a footpath across fields, running largely parallel to the railway line, taking you to a footbridge over to Woodham Fen. On the east side of Woodham Fen, there’s an underpass beneath Ferrers Road leading directly to a footway that goes all the way to South Woodham Ferrers station...
James Piers Taylor
From Woodham station, it’s up Hullbridge Road to the roundabout junction with the Burnham Road (B1012). There is a traffic light crossing with a beg button just east of the roundabout but there’s no pavement on the north side of the road, so you’re best off using the pavement on the south side until you are opposite Hamberts Farm. Suitably refreshed you carry on north through New Hall, the oldest of the local vineyards and up past Hazeleigh Hall before turning east towards the old railway line. (At my time of walking a new solar farm was being constructed on the intervening field - not yet updated on maps or Google Earth.) The embankment of the dismantled railway line now takes you north to the edge of Maldon....
James Piers Taylor
James Piers Taylor pledged to walk Soubur four
Walk this routeJames Piers Taylor pledged to walk Soubur three
Walk this routeIf it’s closed for any reason, you’ll need to continue east on Station Road and take London Hill north under the railway access The Approach. There is now a nice off-street stretch taking in a part of Wheatley Wood until you turn north onto the quiet road of St John’s Drive - it’s easy to miss this and carry on west on the path, so be alert! Then it's road walking on the quiet [old] Chelmsford Road that the A1245 replaced. I would be minded in future to not take the north turn at the hedge line but to carry on west on the footpath to Old London Road by the Chichester Hotel, turn north on this road for a while before taking the path east over a footbridge and rejoin the Slow Way there. It’s road walking on Old London Road, but it’s a low-traffic route. On the other side, it's a footpath and quiet road detour until you have to dash across this road again back to its south side. (The England Coast Path proposes a pavement route on the south side of the A132 which will avoid these crossings - so look out for that being implemented. Walking beside that road on pavement will be unpleasant but safer.)....
James Piers Taylor
This route cannot be completed as there is no river crossing between South Woodham Ferrers and Hullbridge. Even at low tide, attempting to ford the river is unsafe. Photos below show the river at this point....
James Piers Taylor
James Piers Taylor took this photo on Soubur four
Walk this routeThere’s a convenience store and chemist here should you need to stock up (long stretches of this walk offer no shops or refreshments). Where King Edward’s Road meets Hambert Road you’ll see a sward of grass sloping upwards directly ahead take this to reach the Burnham Road (B1012). Out of the woodland, the path follows the field edge to the junction of Crows Lane and Woodham Road. When the copse ends take the footpath south to meet the Woodham Road again, practically opposite the next piece of the route. Cross the road when traffic allows and take the off-road path going south which shortly joins an east-bound track along the route of the old Maldon West railway line. This road remains busy here, on the south side of the road there’s a grass verge which is suitable for the short stretch to Rookery Lane. Rookery Lane is a no-through road to traffic and another wonderfully quiet lane to walk down. [A thus-far unconfined element of the England Coast Path proposes a route to South Woodham Ferrers using the farm track westward here]. Before reaching Creeksea itself private claim on the coast forces you inland again and across a field to Ferry Lane. Here the route turns south and returns to the coast (f you want a quicker route to Burnham station and/or to find refreshments at the Parlour Cage by Creeksea Place turn north instead then east before the railway bridge). The mapped route takes you across Riverside Park and along suburban streets to Burnham on Crouch railway station - but why not carry on along the coast path to the pleasant hostelries of Burnham Quay instead?...
James Piers Taylor
James Piers Taylor took this photo on Soubur three
Walk this routeThere’s one section of road walking which I think is a bit perilous, especially if you are walking this route east to west so I have uploaded an alternative Soubur four which diverts around it. There’s a convenience store and chemist here should you need to stock up (long stretches of this walk offer no shops or refreshments). Where King Edward’s Road meets Hambert Road you’ll see a sward of grass sloping upwards directly ahead take this to reach the Burnham Road (B1012). Out of the woodland, the path follows the field edge to the junction of Crows Lane and Woodham Road. When the copse ends take the footpath south to meet the Woodham Road again, practically opposite the next piece of the route. This road remains busy here, on the south side of the road there’s a grass verge which is suitable for the short stretch to Rookery Lane. Rookery Lane is a no-through road to traffic and another wonderfully quiet lane to walk down. [A thus-far unconfined element of the England Coast Path proposes a route to South Woodham Ferrers using the farm track westward here]. Before reaching Creeksea itself private claim on the coast forces you inland again and across a field to Ferry Lane. Here the route turns south and returns to the coast (f you want a quicker route to Burnham station and/or to find refreshments at the Parlour Cage by Creeksea Place turn north instead then east before the railway bridge). The mapped route takes you across Riverside Park and along suburban streets to Burnham on Crouch railway station - but why not carry on along the coast path to the pleasant hostelries of Burnham Quay instead?...
James Piers Taylor
James Piers Taylor added Soubur four, a new walk from South Woodham Ferrers to Burnham-on-Crouch
Walk this routeThat’s because I haven’t finished walking the route but what I have walked is amazing!...
Jane Taylor
Jane Taylor added Soubur three, a new walk from South Woodham Ferrers to Burnham-on-Crouch
Walk this routeIt's easy to follow on marked footpaths and bridleways with some road walking....
Clare
We only followed to battlesbridge but was very accurate up to that point....
KR5
This route will not work as there is no crossing on the river crouch at that point...
KR5
River Crouch crossing between Ferry Road, Hullbridge and Marsh Farm Road, SWF does NOT exist!!! First river crossing on foot is upstream at Battlesbridge road bridge - there is NO crossing downstream other than the foot ferry at BOC....
John Myers
In entering Purleigh, from south, it would be more interesting and less road walking to take path leading to the Purleigh Hall, Church and The Bell (food available). A longer alternative route in to Maldon would be to go from Purleigh to Mundon (interesting church), then footpaths north to the Promenade Park....
tony77
tony77 added Soumal two, a new walk from South Woodham Ferrers to Maldon
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Chesou one, a new walk from Chelmsford to South Woodham Ferrers
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Raysou one, a new walk from Rayleigh to South Woodham Ferrers
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Raysou two, a new walk from Rayleigh to South Woodham Ferrers
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Soumal one, a new walk from South Woodham Ferrers to Maldon
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Souroc one, a new walk from South Woodham Ferrers to Rochford
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Wicsou one, a new walk from Wickford to South Woodham Ferrers
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