Half Day Hikes and Walking Routes

Satisfying Sugar Loaf, Brecon Beacons

By Love Wild Walks on Thursday, November 5, 2020

The Sugar Loaf mountain stands 596m high in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, near Abergavenny. It is the southernmost of the summit peaks of the Black Mountains. This walk offers many vantage points of (and on) the Sugar Loaf.

The route starts at a Cibi valley farm before ascending through a medieval deer park then ancient moorland. The climb to the summit is short but steep with rewarding views. The meandering descent passes grazing sheep and crosses a spring before a near vertical climb, then back onto Sugar Loaf common. The final decline is through woodland and pasture to the start.

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River Stour Nature Reserves: Ramsey to Wrabness Circular

By Love Wild Walks on Wednesday, August 26, 2020

This North Essex walk is one for the nature lovers, taking in four nature reserves. The walk can (and should!) be extended by rambling along the trails within these reserves before re-joining the main route. There’s a variety of terrain; farmland, woodland, meadows, and River Stour estuary and salt marsh. It’s an undulating walk with …

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Calm Coastal Circular Walk: Bradwell-on-Sea, Dengie Peninsular

By Love Wild Walks on Thursday, August 20, 2020

Trespassing Bird Scarers - Bradwell Shell Bank - Dengie Peninsula

The quiet, flat 12 mile route offers both farmland and coastal terrain. At roughly halfway you reach the main points of interest; Bradwell Shell Bank and Chapel of St. Peter on the Wall. There are other elements preventing this route feeling like too much a trek; three pubs, Church of St. Nicholas, Bradwell Waterside Marina, Bradwell Power Station, and of course, the coastal views. The seawall section is easy to follow, but over-zealous sowing and poor signage makes some of the inland route hard to follow, even with a map.

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Peaceful North Fambridge to Lively Burnham-on-Crouch: River Walk

By Love Wild Walks on Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Although a long walk, this flat and peaceful route is easy going. It starts in North Fambridge, ending in Burnham-on-Crouch, with a train journey and short walk back to the start. Most of the walk is an easy to follow 9 miles of seawall along the River Crouch on the Salt Marsh Coast Trail. This is not as repetitive as it might sound. There is plenty of wildlife and as the river approaches the sea it becomes livelier and the surrounding scenery changes.

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Ashdon to Bartlow Circular: Impressive Bartlow Hills & Braggs Windmill

By Love Wild Walks on Sunday, July 19, 2020

Yet another great walking route we found on essexwalks.com, which we followed to the letter. The possibility of finishing at The Three Hills pub tempted us to start the route in Bartlow. However, the highlight of this walk for most will be Barlow Hills, ancient roman burial mounds, so we’d advise not crossing that off right at the start. There’s quite a lot of farmland mileage between Ashdon and Bartlow and it’s best to have this at the start of the walk, rather than the end.