Moor Park
From the car park turn left along the access road and pass the golf club’s The Fairway Inn. Bear left at the footpath sign and continue alongside a tree belt, then bear right through the belt to cross between golf tees and bear left to head for the road again. Cross it and continue ahead, skirting left of the driving practice area. With a copse on your right the path descends, with good views of Moor Park mansion to your left. Follow the footpath markers across the golf course, eventually heading to the right of a house to continue between hedges and a metal fence, then on a drive to the main road.
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Go left and pass Ye Old Greene Manne pub and, walking through its car park, continue ahead between tree clumps of Batchworth Heath. At the gate lodges and entrance arch to Moor Park go right and back to the main road. Pass the Prince of Wales pub and go left at a footpath sign for the London Loop. Follow this path through scrub and trees as far as a road.
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Turn left, cross Batchworth Lane and continue ahead until you reach ‘The Willows’ where you turn right and pass between garden fences. Cross a road and continue between garden fences and at a T-junction go under a railway bridge. Go immediately left and at a footpath sign ‘Hampermill Lane’ bear right. The path passes to the left of an electricity pylon and bears half left to emerge on another golf course. Follow the waymarker posts across a number of fairways, until the path eventually enters a copse and shortly reaches a lane.
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Go through a kissing gate walk half right in woods and through a kissing gate into a paddock to continue alongside a chain link fence to another kissing gate. Follow the path to a further kissing gate and, avoiding the road, go immediately left. Descend some wooden steps and cross a footbridge over the River Colne. Cross another footbridge and after a kissing gate continue ahead with the fence to Hampermill Lake on your left. The path bears right alongside a hedge and passes between a farmhouse and farm buildings. Go left along a concrete farm road, leaving it to go left at a path sign ‘Lairage Lanes LNR’.
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The path descends to the Ebury Way which follows the course of the old Watford to Rickmansworth railway. Follow this for 1.5 miles (2.4km), passing Croxley Common Moor nature reserve. Eventually you cross the Grand Union Canal on an old steel railway bridge.
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Immediately across the bridge descend left to the canal tow path and go right to follow it to Batchworth Lock. Cross the footbridge, pass the Canal Centre and climb steps to the road. Here go left to cross the canal road bridge. The road bears left and you avoid the roundabout by continuing ahead on Moor Lane before crossing to the Moor Park Golf Club access and the car park.
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