The Hertfordshire Way
Stage 9: Shenley to Cuffley
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The Hertfordshire Way is a 166 mile long distance trail around the county divided into 14 legs, and beginning and ending at Royston. Bluetiger walked the ninth leg from Shenley to Cuffley, 10 miles, in August 2004. The guidebook indicates that, despite crossing two motorways and two railway routes from London, the nature of this leg is surprisingly rural with a wide variety of scenery.
In Shenley there is an eighteenth century lock-up. Over one window there is an inscription:
It is between a pub and the village pond! At Shenley the Way turns north, beginning the long trek back to Royston.
Leaving Shenley the countryside becomes remarkably rural.
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The hedgerows are beginning to fill with the fruits of autumn: sloes, blackberries, rosehips.
At the bottom of a field near Rabley Park you come across a monument. The inscription at the bottom says:
Another typical rural Hertfordshire scene....this one only a few hundred yards from....
....the stile leading to the subway under the M25!
Northaw House
Northaw (Hertfordshire's Best Kept Village 1999).
From Northaw the Way drops down to Cuffley, with the houses on The Ridgeway ('Millionaire's Row') and Great Wood on the other side of the valley.
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