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Stetchworth Walks
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Stetchworth walk 1. Ellesmere Centre 1.5 hours, 3.25 miles
- Park at the Ellesmere Centre
- Turn left on leaving the car park and look for footpath sign which will take you through a kissing gate on your right.
- Continue through the stud until you come to a stile. Cross the stile and bear left.
- Cross a wide track and enter fields with a ditch on left . Travel about 300 yards and turn right. Go over wooden bridge and turn left.
- Continue along Stour Valley Path for ½ mile and look for foot path sign on left .
- Turn left and follow this path until you see mown grass and a tennis court.
- Find your way onto a narrow path beside a meadow with electric fencing. At the end is Ley Road, Stetchworth , this is looking to the left at this point.
- Turn right and look for footpath sign on left . This path is through open country and passes poplar trees .
- Look for green metal farm gates and turn right into Woodditton Road.
- Pass houses on left and follow footpath between houses.
- Now you head towards the Devil’s Ditch by walking across the arable field .
- Find a gap in the hedge and walk through woods until you are at the base of Devil’s Ditch.
- Continue towards Stetchworth with ditch on right.
- At marker post turn left then right into arable fields , this is looking to the right at this point.
- After 200 yards you must turn left and follow the hedge.
- Cross wide farm track and climb through gap in hedge.
- Turn right then left across arable field.
- Continue over the bridge and arrive at the rear of Stetchworth playing field .
- From here, the car park is on the far side of the Ellesmere Centre hall.
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Stetchworth walk 2. Tea Kettle Lane, 1 hour, 2.75 miles
- In Church lane, follow the footpath sign which takes you past a large house on your immediate left.
- Go through a kissing gate and continue along a wide grass path for one mile.
- At this point you will meet the Stetchworth to Woodditton main road - turn right.
- Go straight on past the Stetchworth Ley turn and continue to the bend in the road.
- On your left follow the sign to Dullingham . This is a woodland path.
- Continue and cross the bridge on right and then climb a high stile.
- Turn left beside the stud paddock fence.
- At the end of the path return to the lane and continue to Cross Green.
- Cross the Stetchworth to Dullingham Road on the bend, turn left and look for concrete steps on your right
- Climb these and continue towards Stetchworth going through a kissing gate halfway along the path.
- At the top cross a wide sand track turn right and look for a bridge on your left .
- Go over the bridge and then through a metal gate.
- Walk a short distance and go through a second gate and enter Mill Lane .
- At end turn left into Tea Kettle Lane and continue to Marquis of Granby
- Cross the road and follow footpath sign to Devil’s Ditch .
- Take first turning on left and return to Church Lane.
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