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Ooh! I got quite lost in Trumpton heaven there for a while!

Loving this ...

I also quite enjoyed Griff's show last night, but I'm seeing a bit too much of that Smoked Salmon factory on the BBC. They lingered over-long there last night - I'm beginning to suspect nepotism.

Whenever I used to go and stay with my Nan in Cheshunt, we'd go across the Kingsmead Viaduct. I always used to look down at the meandering ribbon of water and the single railway line passing below us.

Loving it too.
Will definitely head for Hertford +Ware. Until this series of posts I had thought of Hertfordshire as fairly characterless "Home Counties"

Re Myddleton - ah now I know why there is a Myddleton Square, Myddleton Street and a Myddleton Passage in Islington. I guess they were grateful!

The second map link for walking along the Lea between Hertford and Ware is broken. (It has an extra "http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com" in front of a link to a PDF on www.hertsdirect.org.)

dg writes: Ah, I'd missed an "http" out.
Fixed now, thanks.


@Dave Of course, the railway line underneath the Kingsmead Viaduct (and the A10) is now double tracked. It's the line which runs to Hertford East from Liverpool Street, via. Tottenham Hale, Cheshunt and Broxbourne.

Hertford's a decent county town, and is certainly less dominated by the chains which are so dominant elsewhere. I've had a fair few evenings out there!

This series of posts is certainly fascinating, especially as the Lea Valley has long been my stomping ground.

Ah, Andrew, I knew I'd eventually get somewhere you've been

On the New River: I do enjoy all the signs which point out that it's neither new nor a river. In fact, it's something with which I often bore my friends.

I've been looking forward to this section, as I lived in the flats on the opposite bank from the Gazebos when I was doing my uni placement with Glaxo. So many pubs in Ware, a student's dream!

Ware to Liverpool street on the train was always fun for gazing out of the window, as you see a lot of this route.

BTW - it's the Glaxo R&D and manufacturing site in Ware, the HQ building is in Uxbridge (or was when I worked there)

The intervening 14 years have not been very kind to Hertford town centre. Very little Trumpton vibe left as much has been demolished and is currently being rebuilt, the chain outlets are very much in evidence and very many residential boxes have been inserted around the near edges. The walk to Ware remains a delight though.










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