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The Candlestick Loop

Loop Walk · Hertfordshire

200

XP

about 1 h 29 min walking

Easy
6.59 km
Loop
Graded from its length and climb.

A beautiful countryside walk from The Candlestick pub/restaurant at West End Lane down to the River Lea then over to Essendon and back.

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191 m

109 m

27 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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Rolling walk

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

102 m

Drop

98 m

Highest

109 m

Lowest

54 m

Walking time

about 1 h 29 min

Which way round

Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.

Main descent: km 1.0–2.0, from 105 m to 66 m.

How the 6.6 km splits

Flat

2.6 km

Climbing

2.0 km

Descending

2.0 km

Link it with other walks

Hertfordshire Way

Shares 0.4 km of path · meets at km 0.1, 0.7

310.49 km

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