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