Stort Valley Way

The 30-mile (48 km) circular path is centred on Harlow and the Stort Navigation.

[1] The circular walk can be started at several locations and can follow a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction.

These include fields, pasture, water meadow and woodland; along rural roads and through villages and some built-up areas.

[1] The path is waymarked in both directions by a dark green circular marker with a white or yellow arrow, a dragonfly and the text ‘Stort Valley Way’.

[1] The Stort Valley Way passes through the following locations (the order assumes starting at Roydon in a clockwise direction):[3] Roydon, Harlow, Sawbridgeworth, Lower Sheering, Sheering, Matching, Matching Tye, Loyter’s Green, Magdalen Laver, Hastingwood, Latton Bush, Rye Hill, Epping Green, Bumbles Green, Nazeing, Nazeingwood Common, Roydon Hamlet and Roydon.