HOOP photo gallery 3b: the Cambridge Road to Purwell
These photos show the most easterly section of the Hitchin Outer Orbital Path, which leaves the Cambridge Road to run between fields and a golf course before it emerges on Kingswood Avenue on the Purwell Estate. Once there, it drops down beside the houses to reach the start of Gypsy Lane.
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A vintage coach on the Cambridge Road
The route heads up the path between these two signs
At this point, the path is an ivy-strewn trail between gardens
A bump and a drop as the path heads for the golf course
Standing at the corner that marks the most easterly point of the walk
A long slow climb upwards
Well-kept fairways and greens
Will it drop, will it drop?
A rare sight: the view towards Stevenage
Leave the main path and head into this gap in the trees
Fallen giant
Emerging from the woods to a new view of Hitchin
Looking down on Queenswood Drive
One of the last bits of pure countryside for a very long time
And don’t you forget it!
A classic HOOP view – rooftops across a cornfield
The final run-up to the edge of town
The HOOP and the Greenway emerge onto Queenswood Drive
The route crests the rise into Kingswood Avenue
Across the fields opposite the town
Waymarking up Kingswood
Difficult to believe there’s a housing estate across the road…
