Three Forests Way
A 60-mile long-distance path in Essex and Hertfordshire linking Hatfield Forest, Hainault Forest, and Epping Forest. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: TL 445 113
Distance: 60 miles (96 km)
Time: 24–30 hours
Duration: 4–6 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
174 Epping Forest and Lee Valley
183 Chelmsford and The Rodings
194 Hertford and Bishop’s Stortford
195 Braintree and Saffron Walden
Summary
The Three Forests Way is a long-distance footpath devised by the West Essex Group of the Ramblers’ Association to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee. It links three Essex forests in a circular route beginning and ending near Harlow Town Station.
Taking a clockwise course, places visited on the route include Harlow Marsh Nature Reserve, Lower Sheering, Little Hallingbury Park, Hatfield Forest Country Park and National Nature Reserve, Hatfield Broad Oak, White Roding, Abbess Roding, Fyfield, High Ongar, Chipping Ongar, Stapleford Tawney (Hawksmere Springs Nature Reserve), Abridge, Lambourne, Hainault Forest Country Park, Chigwell Row, Loughton, Epping Forest, Upshire, Epping Green, Roydon Hamlet, Roydon Mills Leisure Park, and Hunsdon Mead.