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Essex Way

Waymarked Way · Essex

2,500

XP

a 5-day route

Strenuous
132.35 km
Linear
Graded from its length and climb.
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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Stages
  1. Essex Way (Epping to Stratford St Mary) · 99.3 km
  2. Essex Way (Stratford St Mary to Ramsey) · 23.8 km
  3. Essex Way (Ramsey to Harwich) · 9.2 km
Route from OpenStreetMap contributors

Rolling walk

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

610 m

Drop

688 m

Highest

124 m

Lowest

0 m

Walking time

about 27 h 37 min

A 5-day route, walked in stages. 2,500 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.

Which way round

Downhill: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Uphill: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Shown as the descent, the way a graded trail like this is ridden — the climb back up is usually the forest road.

How the 133.0 km splits

Flat

116.6 km

Climbing

8.1 km

Descending

8.3 km

Link it with other walks

Colne Valley Path

Shares 4.1 km of path · meets at km 71.1, 74.1

37.56 km

Grange Barn and Paycocke's House Circular Walk, Grange Barn

Shares 1.5 km of path · meets at km 60.4

4.15 km

John Ray Walk

Shares 0.8 km of path · meets at km 51.9, 52.6, 52.9

16.19 km

Paycocke's Tudor Coggeshall Walk, Paycocke's House and Garden

Shares 0.8 km of path · meets at km 61.8, 62.4, 62.6…

3.95 km

St Peter's Way

Shares 0.7 km of path · meets at km 11.6, 12.2, 12.3

66.9 km

Margery Allingham Walk

Shares 0.6 km of path · meets at km 70.5

6.99 km

Round Chapel

Shares 0.3 km of path · meets at km 70.5, 71.1

7.56 km

Epping Forest Big Walk

Crosses at km 0.0

24.29 km

Three Forests Way

Crosses at km 11.2, 12.3, 15.3

97.53 km

Flatford and Constable Country Walk, Flatford

Crosses at km 94.1

12.54 km

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