It was a glorious day today so we headed straight off from church with a picnic to Goffs Oak to do what is officially the longest link of the chain walk - 9 miles up and down either side of the railway line north to Hertford.
Goffs Oak proved to have been named after an ancient oak - sadly this had met its doom in 1950 but a new tree stood in the spot to mark it for posterity.
The walk starting by cutting through open fields, the wheat just about ripe now, and then under the railway line before climbing steeply into Cuffley. We appeared from the bushes in the expensive end of town, his, hers and theirs matching black Range Rovers - definitely 'new money'.
Then through an area of mature oak and hornbeam woodland past the scout camp and up to Newgate Street for a half time orange juice at the Coach and Horses (honestly).
Up the bridleway from there past Ponsbourne Park and the Tesco Training Centre (good place for weekend stays...). The railway had disappeared into a tunnel and was only evident by the ventilation shafts. A sharp turn right after the kennels (audible from a mile away!) and back largely through Wormley Woods, a woodland trust reserve with superb old trees before emerging on the back road to Goffs Oak where we found a gospel hall - both gates locked and phone or write to the trustees if you want to know when the services are.. - and thence home.
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