I walked this with a friend on a warm, overcast day in July, travelling from Wivenhoe to West Mersea, and enjoyed the journey. There's some good countryside in this walk but I've marked it down for some unavoidable road walking on a busy B-road, poor way marking on the ground, and due to several variable factors that might affect someone walking it. 

In short, the variable factors are:
1. The Wivenhoe-Rowhedge ferry - it's not part of this route, it's seasonal and tide-dependent but if it *is* available when you are walking you can knock out the stretch up and back down the Colne which takes you via the outskirts of Colchester
2. Fingringhoe Ranges - the route takes a PROW through this MOD facility. When there’s scheduled firing there, and/or when the red flags are flying there’s no access to that route
3) The Strood causeway to Mersea Island - high tides can cover this and make it impassable until they recede....

James Piers Taylor

Even better if you time it walking in to the setting sun....

Clive

For multiple reasons – difficult terrain, narrow overgrown paths, camber and the odd step - this is not a route that can really be recommended for wheelchair users! Midway along Alresford Creek (w3w: ///gobblers.gains.firelight), Wivbri one diverts from the riverbank and takes a slightly more direct inland route before joining up with it again. This route section though is very narrow, highly overgrown, and lacks the views from the riverbank as well. - In addition to the above, tricky (for a chair), rutted mixed terrain along the riverbank for significant sections of the route, also likley to be muddy and slippery in the wet...

Rowena Macaulay

Route: I walked this route in March (20/03/23 Monday). This makes the route a mainline station to mainline station should anyone want the convenience from further afield though as WivmanOne (route originator) has shown the original route is well supported with public transport. I changed the route only once more at the busy Colchester to Elmstead road. The footpath circumnavigates an old orchard on right and eventually joins with Wivmanone’s route at Church Road....

Stuart McCain

The route starts from Wivenhoe rail station and the first section follows a path along the River Colne, passing through a nature reserve. Towards the end of the route I had to improvise slightly at the car park when the prescribed route could not be accessed....

Tracy K

footpath across Wivenhoe quarry to Keelars lane was completely flooded by the quarry lake. Easy to follow the quarry road out though without significant deviation and that cut out a portion of Keelars lane as well. Footpath from Bromley Cross (Hall Road to Carringtons Road) was completely overgrown and inaccessible...

arundago

The path from Brook Street railway tunnel to the Moors can be overgrown at times. I propose an diversion along the north bank of the Colne, croosing to Spurgeon Street to reach St Leonards Church...

Zenicepian

The path from Brook Street railway tunnel to the Moors can be overgrown at times. I propose an diversion along the north bank of the Colne, croosing to Spurgeon Street to reach St Leonards Church...

Zenicepian