From the car park walk along Old River Lane and turn right up Bridge Street, one of the best surviving streets in the town. Go straight on past the 1828 Corn Exchange into High Street to visit St Michael’s Church. Out of the church turn left into Windhill. At the roundabout go right into Bells Hill and shortly go left on to the Hertfordshire Way. This descends to the grounds of Bishop’s Stortford College, joining a tarmac path for a while. At a fork maintain your direction uphill to an avenue of horse chestnut trees.

At the crest turn right, still on the Hertfordshire Way, alongside a hedge. Once through a gate go left along Maze Green Road. Go left to another gate and turn right in front of it, now with playing fields on your left. The path continues through scrubby woodland, turning right along garden fences and round the corner. With houses soon on both sides, cross an estate road up Squire’s Close. The path continues across another estate road and, beyond the houses, crosses the A1184. Once over the road walk alongside a hedge, still on the Hertfordshire Way. Descend alongside woods and go through a hedge.

Turn right here on to a green lane. Passing under the A120, the Roman Stane Street, the Hertfordshire Way turns left but you go straight on, along an access road signed ‘Hadham Lodge’. Once past a pond and to the left of Hadham Lodge, walk alongside a paddock fence. When it ends go straight on. Beyond the woods keep ahead on a track with Bloodhounds Wood to the left. Cross a junction and continue to the crest.

Here, the path bears right on to a hedgeless track, briefly within Essex. Continue past beech trees in the grounds of Wickham Hall to your right. At the corner turn left past a bungalow and then right by a mast. The track winds along the county boundary and where the fence ends, turn sharp right descending to walk along the edge of trees. At the footpath sign go left over a stile into pasture and head alongside the hedge to the bypass bridge. Just through the bridge ignore a gate ahead and go through a hedge gap on the right and follow the path along the edge of woodland.

Turn left at the field corner and cross the road to a stile. Descend along the worn path through trees and scrub to the far left-hand corner of the field and at a redundant stile walk through the tree belt to reach a cricket pitch. Now skirt the pitch heading half right and leave the field on a path with allotments to your right. Cross to Elm Road and at the Wheatsheaf pub turn right into Northgate End. At the roundabout turn left past Northgate End car park, bearing left on to a path and passing through Link Road car park to the gate near the bridge. At the motte of Waytemore Castle cross Link Road back to the Causeway car park.