Lea Valley Circle
Loop Walk · Hertfordshire
150
XP
about 1 h 12 min walking
Walk over the River Lea and gaze across its valley. One of the main rivers in Hertfordshire, it rises as a chalk stream – one of only 200 or so in the world.
194 m
125 m
56 m
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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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Mostly flat, no real climbs.
Climb
62 m
Drop
63 m
Highest
117 m
Lowest
81 m
Walking time
about 1 h 12 min
Which way round
Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.
Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.
No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.
How the 5.5 km splits
Flat
1.7 km
Climbing
1.9 km
Descending
1.9 km
Link it with other walks
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The Romans & Nomansland
Starts here too · Crosses at km 0.0, 5.312.09 km
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