Walk uphill on Albury Road to a footpath sign on the right 'To Church 0.5 and Bishop's Stortford 2.75'. Take this path alongside an arable field, which descends to the River Ash, here merely a small stream. Cross the footbridge to climb on to a grassy baulk between fields. This leads to the church, whose tower peeps from its churchyard surrounded by trees.

Leave the churchyard with the many-gabled rear of Church End farmhouse on your right to enter a lane. Go left, past the old church hall (now converted to a bungalow). Follow the track round to the right of some farm buildings to climb to the brow of the hill. At a public bridleway junction-post turn right. The modern little development of houses called Baud Close stands behind a fine brick-built barn, which has also now been converted into a house.

From the central grassed courtyard of Hadham Hall and its outbuildings, pass the 1570s gatehouse to walk down the lime avenue to the main road, the A120 or Roman Stane Street. Turn right and shortly turn left down Millfield Lane. This junction is the highest point on the walk.

Beyond Millfield Cottage go right, on to a metalled green lane by a public byway sign where the lane turns left. At a fork go right, still on the hedged green lane (Hoecroft Lane). Passing the splendidly named Muggins Wood, climb to a lane. Turn right and follow the lane, descending into Hadham Ford.

At the junction, with the war memorial in a small triangular green, turn right along the main street. The lane crosses the river. At a public footpath sign opposite the Nag's Head pub turn to the right, across a footbridge and through a gate.

Turn left and head for the left-hand corner of a wood, the modest river on your left. Continue uphill, keeping trees on the right and when you reach a large field with woods on the horizon, swing left between arable fields with St Cecilia's Church in Little Hadham visible ahead. The path later bears left at a fingerpost to pass to the right of a primary school, emerging on to the A120 past a single-storey thatched cottage.

Turn left along the pavement, past the school, to the traffic lights. Cross the river bridge to the group of buildings at the staggered central crossroads. Turn right here, back into Albury Road.