Len Banister

IT'S over five years since I last visited Hainault Forest for this series (walks 9 & 12) and I intend to remedy my neglect with at least three walks over the next two months or so.

THIS is a deceptively short walk which has all kinds of temptations built into it.

TRUELOVE'S and Fernhills are relatively recent acquisitions for Epping Forest, the latter being purchased in 1997.

In September the Stop Stansted Expansion Campaign (SSE) organised a Runway Ramble' through Hatfield Forest.

THIS WALK runs along little known Bridleways which give two fantastic views across Herts and Essex.

In August, I joined 32 members of the Havering and East London Group Ramblers on their regular Tuesday morning walk.

The astonishing Dunstable Downs form the Eastern extremity of the Chiltern Hills, it is therefore appropriate that the new state-of-the-art Bedfordshire County Council/National Trust visitor facility should be called the Chilterns Gateway Centre.

WE start the walk from the village of Totternhoe, and walk through the nature reserve which comprises the Totternhoe Knolls to visit the earthworks on Castle Hill which are the remains of a late 11th or 12th C castle.

TAKING really young children for a walk can require a lot of planning. If you have one of those posh and expensive all-terrain buggies you can go practically anywhere but there are great limitations for the ordinary pushchair.

The second Lee Valley Walk in conjunction with the Lee valley Park's 40th anniversary was designed by Eric Wilton, Senior Ranger.