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Walkern Bury ringwork

Access unclearno public right of way confirmed — check locally before setting out

Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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Walkern Bury ringwork preserves the earthworks of a former ringwork castle in Hertfordshire. It is the only ringwork castle the Albion Guide lists in the county. Watton-at-Stone Station is 6.9 km away to the south.

More at the National Heritage List entry

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Photo of Cromer Windmill, a windmill near Ardeley, Hertfordshire, eastern England.

Cromer Windmill

Windmill near Ardeley

Hertfordshire's only surviving post mill, a white weatherboarded mill of about 1720 on a medieval mound near Ardeley, restored and open on summer afternoons.

2.5 km N

Photo along the Hertfordshire Way, a 195-mile long-distance path in eastern England.Highlight

Hertfordshire Way

Long-distance path

Hertfordshire's grand circuit from the Royce Stone at Royston — chalk streams, commons and country houses for nearly 200 miles.

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Photo along the Icknield Way Path, a 110-mile long-distance path running from Ivinghoe Beacon to Knettishall Heath, England.

Icknield Way Path

Long-distance path

The missing middle of the 'oldest road in Britain', linking the Ridgeway at Ivinghoe Beacon to the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath.

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Photo of Knebworth House and Gardens, a country park near Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Knebworth House and Gardens

Country park near Ayot St Lawrence

A Gothic Victorian house reworked by the novelist Bulwer-Lytton, with Lutyens gardens.

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Photo of All Saints' Church, Willian, a church in Hertfordshire, eastern England.

All Saints' Church, Willian

Church near Willian

Nearly nine-hundred-year-old flint church beside the green at Willian, near Letchworth Garden City.

9.3 km NW

Photo along the Chiltern Way, a 177-mile long-distance path in England.

Chiltern Way

Long-distance path

The Chiltern Society's grand loop through four counties of beechwood and chalk, grown from a Millennium project into 177 miles.

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