Distance	2 Miles
Terrain	Grass pathways throughout the route with several bridges.
Starting Point	Cornmill Meadows car park, Crooked Mile, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 2ES
Quick guide
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Route

• Exit the car park at the dragonfly information panel, entering the Tree Park.
• Turn right and then left along the grass pathway heading in a westerly direction, crossing the Meridian Line.
• Turn right at Cornmill Stream and continue heading north, keeping the stream on your left.
• Cross over the black metal bridge at the weir, passing a second information panel.        
• Continue along the pathway, following the Old River Lee in a westerly direction, bearing to the left to head south.
• At the third information panel, proceed through the kissing gate and over a wooden bridge.
• Continue on the pathway passing a path on the left (Wake Hide is a short diversion along this pathway).
• Proceed south alongside the river and the Royal Gunpowder Mills site on the right, cross over the large bridge and onto a footbridge over the outlet sluice.
• Turn left before the kissing gate and follow the pathway east, keeping the road on the right.
• Continue through a kissing gate (Waltham Abbey Gardens is a short diversion from the route – turn right through the underpass).
• Proceed along the pathway, keeping the fence line on the left. (A fourth information panel is a short diversion from the route – turn left through a second kissing gate and the panel is located opposite the Abbey Fish Ponds).
• Continue over a concrete bridge crossing the Cornmill Stream and proceed along the middle path, turning left onto the Meridian Line.
• Proceed across a wooden footbridge and over a second ditch.
• Continue north, and turn right at the crossroad junction.
• Turn left through an avenue of poplar trees, turning right into the car park.    

Toilets:

• Waltham Abbey town, opposite Abbey Church – 5 minutes from route

Refreshments:

• Waltham Abbey town centre – 5 minutes from route