9. BY THE PATH is a granite Water Fountain donated to the town in 1872 by Edwin & Eliza Eyre in memory of George Bramston Archer Houblon (born George Bramston Eyre) of Hallingbury Place. It was in the Hockerill Crossroads until 1920.

10. FURTHER AROUND the path is a bungalow which marks the position of the notorious Castle gaol and dungeons demolished in 1649, replaced by the Cherry Tree Inn.

11. THE MOUND bears the remains of Waytemore Castle (c.1086) [6], held by the Bishops of London for 600 years. The key from the Tourist Information Centre allows access to the steps up the mound and an interesting view of the town.

LEAVE CASTLE GARDENS: pass the War Memorial, cross the bridge over the moat, turn left into the Causeway and proceed past the park up the hill (Hockerill Street).

12. IN HOCKERILL STREET [7] notice the remnants of several Maltings behind the shops on the left.

13. AT THE CROSSROADS were four coaching inns: this was the turnpike (17th/18th Cent) that superseded the old way through Market Square. On the west corner of Stansted Road was the Red Lion (c.1660 – now a restaurant) which played host to Charles II. Henry Gilbey became the landlord in 1841; Sir Walter Gilbey, his son, co-founded the great wine merchant business W & A Gilbey

14. OPPOSITE IS The Cock Inn (1620) [7], a pargetted (patterns in the plaster facade) building that once had a courthouse and gaol attached.

15. THE Coach and Horses (c.1770) stood on the south-east corner, now redeveloped as offices.

16. ON THE SOUTH-WEST CORNER stood the famous Crown Inn (1601) [8] visited by the gentry (inc. John Wesley, George IV and Princess Victoria). Landlord Thos. Adderley (1734) was a co-founder of the Stort Navigation Co. The premises (demolished 1898) extended from Crown Terrace around the corner into London Road.

WALK BACK DOWN HOCKERILL STREET

17. NO 18 HOCKERILL STREET is a converted remnant of a large Match Factory that stood behind; No 14 has a fine mansard roof, both buildings saved from demolition in the 1970s.

18. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL, across Dane Street, the mock-Tudor building (c.1920s) is now the Town’s Registry Office: it has the clock from a former wharf building and once provided offices for the Union Workhouse (now renovated for housing in the Herts & Essex Hospital grounds).

19. FROM THE CAUSEWAY river bridge, walk a few yards along the river towpath; this represents the end of the Stort Navigation opened in 1769; see the rare riverside crane on the right used for loading barge traffic.

RETURN TO THE TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE for Routes 1 & 3 and to return the Castle Mound key.

WALK TO YOUR RIGHT FROM OUTSIDE THE TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE, through Market Square until you reach Potter Street [1] on your right.

1. OPPOSITE MARKET SQUARE is an 1889 Italianate building (now a building society), which contained the town’s first purpose-built Post Office.

2. TO THE RIGHT ARE STEPS to Devoil’s Lane; further along, Jackson Square marks a major 1960s town redevelopment: the River Stort was diverted, the Link Road bypassed the old town centre and many Victorian buildings along Potter Street were replaced.

3. DOWN THE STEPS (or return to the traffic lights and turn right down Bridge Street), on Devoil’s Lane (originally Dunghill Lane), the Black Lion (16th Cent) [2] is another mediaeval survival; a black lion was the heraldic symbol of Queen Phillipa, wife of Edward III.

4. IN BRIDGE STREET [3], almost opposite is The Star (16th Cent, with 16th/17th Cent outbuildings). Further down, the Town Mill stood near the present entrance to Jackson Square (find the moss-covered stone plaque to the left); the Stort River (since diverted) flowed on the route of Old River Lane under a bridge here [4].

5. OPPOSITE IS AN OLD Maltings building (note the chimneys); further up Bridge Street, this building once housed Bishop Bonner (c.1555), Queen Mary’s persecutor of the Protestants. Inside Coopers, to the right of the entrance next Water Lane, are decorated plaster panels on the ceiling.

TURN RIGHT OUT OF COOPERS into Water Lane, part of the ancient town that once had tanneries and a brewery [5].

6. TO THE RIGHT IS THE Guild House, c.1740, now an Estate Agents, one of an array of buildings whose back gardens ran down to the River Stort (since diverted).

7. TO THE LEFT is the United Reformed Church (1860), in the Italianate style; it replaced an earlier, smaller Congregational chapel.

8. ALONG WATER LANE by the bend are several buildings, parts of the former Hawkes Brewery [5]. Looking east across the car park, behind the trees, are the Norman Waytemore Castle mound, Hockerill and All Saints Church beyond.

TURN RIGHT DOWN THE PATH beside the Supermarket car park, across the car park is the Link Road (a 1960s development); use the pedestrian crossing over the Link Road to enter Castle Gardens.

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MethodistChurch

United ReformChurch

St. Michael s̓Church

Herts &Essex Mosque

St. JosephRC Church

CommunityChurch

Hockerill AllSaints Church

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Arts Centre,ConferenceCentre &Museum

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PostOffice

RailwayStation

BusInterchange

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Cinema,Bowling &

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CAB

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TownCouncilOffices

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NextStepPolice

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ShopMobility

Library

PaddlingPool

WarMemorial

CommunityCentre

DayCentre

School

MarketSquare

Hotel

SkateRamp

CastleMound

BowlingGreenCastle

Gardens

SwordersField

PlayArea

MemorialGarden

BowlingClub

NewCemetery

OldCemetery

PlayArea

PlayArea

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TheDells

RegentWalk

RiversideWalk

Photo acknowledgements: Bishop’s Stortford Museum (cover, 1-2, 4-5, 7); Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies (3, 6, 8)

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[1] Potter Street (c. 1900)

[2] Black Lion Inn (16th Cent.)

[5] Hawkes Brewery looking towards its Water Lane entrance

[4] The Town Mill sluice looking towards the Bridge Street Maltings (c. 1960)

{7] Hockerill Street and the Cock Inn (built 1620

[6] Reconstruction: Waytemore Castle in the time of King John (c.1150)[8] The Crown Inn, demolished 1899’

PLEASE ALLOW ABOUT 50 MINUTES FOR THIS WALK

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ovement of

malt to packhorses rather than carts. This led

eventually to an initiative by George Jackson and others to create the Stort Navigation. This received Royal Assent in 1766 and the work was com

plete by 1769, stretching about ten m

iles south to join the River Lea Naviagtion to Hertford and London.

RHO

DES A

RTS COM

PLEX &

MU

SEUM

CM23 3JG Tel 01279 710200

www.rhodesbishopsstortford.org.ukThis com

plex started life as the Rhodes M

emorial M

useum, dedicated to Cecil

Rhodes, born in Nettleswell House, the hom

e of his father, Rev Francis Rhodes, vicar of St M

ichael’s. The M

useum opened in 1938 but was rebuilt

as the Rhodes Mem

orial Museum

and Com

monwealth Centre which was officially

opened in 1963.

WAYTEM

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STLEThis castle m

ound is the remnant of what

was certainly a Norman castle, and possibly

even Saxon. A wooden structure at first, it was likely converted to a traditional m

otte and bailey m

asonry structure soon after 1086, and surrounded by a m

oat.

FORG

E MU

SEUM

SG10 6BS Tel 01279 843301 www.hertsm

useums.org.uk

Explore the village of Much Hadham

with the Forge M

useum and Victorian Cottage

Garden.

HEN

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UN

DATIO

NSG10 6EE Tel 01279 843333www.henry-m

oore-fdn.co.ukVisit the Studios, Gardens and Fam

ily Home

to view some of the im

pressive works of Henry M

oore at nearby Perry Green. Guided tours available. O

pen Weds – Sun & Bank

Holidays. Enjoy a break at the Hop Poles pub.

AU

DLEY EN

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Saffron Walden, CB11 4JF

Tel: 01799 522 842 www.english-heritage.org.ukAudley End was one of the greatest houses of early 17th-century England. Robert Adam

transform

ed this house in the 1760s, while Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown rem

odelled the grounds, to create one of England’s finest landscape gardens. Visit the stables and its anim

als.

MO

UN

FITCHET CA

STLE & TO

Y MU

SEUM

CM24 8SP Tel 01279813237

www.mountfitchetcastle.com

A unique, award-winning, all-weather heritage entertainm

ent complex where

prehistory, history and nostalgia combine to

make an exciting day out. The Toy M

useum

contains one of the largest toy collection in the world.

STAN

STED M

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ET WIN

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ILLCM

24 8BL Limited opening tim

es. www.stanstedm

ountfitchetwindmill.co.uk

Part of the village skyline since 1787 and donated to the people of Stansted in 1935. Its cap is “live”, constantly facing into the wind, and its sails can still be turned.

HATFIELD

FOREST, TA

KELEY

CM22 6NE Tel 01279 870678

www.nationaltrust.org.ukRelax in the beautiful woodland of Hatfield Forest near Takeley. Ideal for walking with a num

ber of nature trails and an ornamental

lake.

GIBBERD

GA

RDEN

, HA

RLOW

CM17 0NA Tel 01279 442112

www.thegibberdgarden.co.ukAn inspirational gallery and Grade II listed garden created by Sir Frederick Gibberd, an uncom

promising M

odernist architect and the m

aster-planner of Harlow New Town, who acquired the site in 1957 and rem

odelled the house and garden.

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arket Square, CM23 3UU

Tel 01279 715001tic@bishopsstortford.orgwww.bishopsstortford.org

TOILETS

Market Square

Bishop’s Stortford. CM23 3UU

East Herts Council O

ffices Charringtons House. CM

23 2EN

BUSES

Tel 0871 200 2233 www.interlink.org.uk

TRAIN

SNational Rail Enquiries08457 484950 www.nationalrail.co.uk

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ounter Service). Please use telephone outside. Non em

ergency 101 from any phone

Emergency 999 from

any phone

MA

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Thursday & Saturday from 8.30

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onth 9.30 – 1.30

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LINK ROAD A1250

A1250

HOCKERILL STREET

THE CAUSEWAY

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LONDON ROAD

DANE STREET

STATIO N ROAD

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Windhill

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South Street

South Street

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North Street

Apton Road

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Portland Road

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Trinity Street

Bartho lomew

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Castle Street

Firlands

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HaversLane

C em etery Road

Nursery R oad

Nursery Road

Jervis Ro ad

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Trinity Cl

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W renbrook Rd

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Basbow Lane

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Old RiverLane

Half Acres

Chantry Road

Kings Court

Kingsbridge Rd

Heron Court

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Footbridge

Footbridge

Footbridge

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MethodistChurch

United ReformChurch

St. Michaels̓Church

Herts &Essex Mosque

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CommunityChurch

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War

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