Walks in Essex

Essex is the southern county in East Anglia, and has a border with London. The county has a long coastline, and also shares a boundary with the Thames. Chelmsford is the county town, and there are many other sizeable settlements, and is England's most populous county.

Despite this, there are some fine walks to be had in the county. The Essex coastline tends to be characterised by river inlets and marshland, and these lead to some superb walks. The Essex Way, an 81-mile long distance path, starts at Epping and ends at Harwich.

Below is a map showing all the walks that I have completed in Essex.

Completed walks in Essex

Heading northwest along the track from the M11.

Gore Saltings.

List of walks in Essex

Walk No.	Description	Distance (miles)
1032	London Loop: Rainham to Purfleet, then on to Basildon and Pitsea	23.6
1031	London Loop: Loughton to Rainham	23.7
1030	London Loop: High Barnet to Loughton	20.7
968	Essex Way: Marks Tey to Manningtree	23.1
967	Essex Way: Great Leighs to Marks Tey	27.4
966	Essex Way: Ongar to Great Leighs	20.3
965	Essex Way: A circular walk between Epping and Chipping Ongar	18.5
955	Essex Way: Manningtree to Harwich	17.0
951	Sudbury to Colchester	20.8
950	Stour Valley Path: Bures to Manningtree	21.0
949	Stour Valley Path: Stoke-by-Clare to Sudbury	18.4
948	Stour Valley Path: A linear walk between Stoke-by-Clare and Little Bradley and back	20.2
780	Icknield Way: Baldock to Great Chesterford	26.7
778	Icknield Way: Great Chesterford to Dullingham	19.5
754	Hatfield Peverel to Colchester	20.4
733	A circular walk around Mersea Island	22.6
718	A circular walk from Long Melford to Lavenham and Sudbury	20.5
713	A circular walk from Linton to Hempstead	20.6
712	A circular walk from Newport	20.5
706	Brentwood to Liverpool Street	21.3
700	A circular walk from Haverhill to Clare	18.4
699	Sudbury to Marks Tey	17.1
696	Brentwood to Hatfield Peverel	20.7
694	A circular walk from Clare to Suffolk county top	19.6
655	A circular walk from Ware	19.7
646	A circular walk around Newport and Clavering	19.3
644	A walk between Clare and Long Melford	19.6
635	Marks Tey to Manningtree via Colchester	17.4
630	Braintree to Marks Tey	14.4
615	Harlow to Edmonton via Epping Forest	19.4
603	Bishop's Stortford to Braintree	18.9
602	Great Chesterford to Swaffham Prior	21.5
281	Stanford-le-Hope to Wennington	16.9
280	Chalkwell to Stanford-le-Hope	16.8
279	Little Wakering to Chalkwell via Southend-on-Sea	18.9
278	Wallasea to Little Wakering	18.4
277	Battlebridge to Wallasea	15.4
276	Althorne to Battlesbridge	17.7
275	Tillingham Marshes to Althorne Station	16.0
274	St Lawrence to Tillingham Marshes	14.4
273	Maldon to St Lawrence	16.0
272	Tollesbury to Maldon	17.2
271	Fingringhoe to Tollesbury	16.7
270	Brightlingsea to Fingringhoe	15.2
269	Clacton-on-Sea to Brightlingsea	18.8
268	Great Oakley Hall to Clacton-on-Sea	17.9
267	Mistley to Great Oakley	18.0
266	Shotley Gate to Mistley	14.2
96	Great Chesterford to Royston	16.6
63	Great Chesterford to Cambridge	16.8
53	Harlow Town to Bishop's Stortford	9.8
52	Enfield Lock to Harlow Town	12.6
49	Bishop's Stortford to Great Chesterford	14.9
10	Waterbeach to Great Chesterford via Cambridge	21.0

This was a total of 1013 miles in 54 walks (an average of 18.75 miles per walk).

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