Back to Essex for the next walk, three days after the walk around Ingatestone, this time to the town made famous by Ian Dury – Billericay
The walk, weather and lighting conditions were pretty much the same as they were four days earlier. Although, there were a couple of odd things about this walk. At one point – in fact, for about 1.5Km – the path was in a hedge. Not following the hedge but actually inside it, a gloomy claustrophobic walk, impossible to photograph in the dismal light. This walk takes you through a lot of woods and fields, with a plenty of signs marked “Private” all around. For a lot of the time, you could hear gunfire roundabout, which is a little worrying. At one point I lost the path completely (there was no path as it crossed a field) and was put back on track by a helpful chap in camouflage, carrying a rifle. It really was not a good place to wander off course.
To help map the walk, I bought a rather useful little device, the Bushnell BackTrack D-Tour, which tracks your journey and then superimposes it on a Google map when you get back to your desktop. It doesn’t do much else, you can input up to five way points, it’s not a substitute for full-blown sat nav. However, for what I want – GPS tracking – it performed very well, mapping the route pretty accurately. You can even see where I stopped for a sandwich in the churchyard. Follow this link to see my route.
This walk was once again from the Essex Pub Walks web site, on this occasion using this 12 Km route.
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