{"id":214,"date":"2008-10-24T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-10-24T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:18:00","slug":"a-borehamwood-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-borehamwood-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Borehamwood walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we went for an 12 mile walk along the &#8216;Timberland Trail&#8217; runing from Borehamwood to the hamlet of Smallford. The walk should have been around 10 miles, but we took a few wrong turns in our search for a bus home.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f7f7f7;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photos of Borehamwood, southern Hertfordshire, England UK\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/borehamwood-photos-04.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/borehamwood-hertfordshire.html\">Borehamwood<\/a> was a right dump &#8211; totally faceless and modernised into blandness.It was a relief to get out of the town and into the countryside.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watling Chase Timberland Trail, an 11 mile walk from Borehamwood towards St Albans, Hertfordshire\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/watling-chase-07.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watling Chase Timberland Trail, an 11 mile walk from Borehamwood towards St Albans, Hertfordshire\" border=\"0\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/watling-chase-33.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watling Chase Timberland Trail, an 11 mile walk from Borehamwood towards St Albans, Hertfordshire\" border=\"0\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/watling-chase-37.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watling Chase Timberland Trail, an 11 mile walk from Borehamwood towards St Albans, Hertfordshire\" border=\"0\" height=\"319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/watling-chase-46.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The walk ends at the closed station of Smallford, right next to Sleapshyde &#8211; a town that seems to have more road signs than inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watling Chase Timberland Trail, an 11 mile walk from Borehamwood towards St Albans, Hertfordshire\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/walks\/images\/watling-chase-41.jpg\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we went for an 12 mile walk along the &#8216;Timberland Trail&#8217; runing from Borehamwood to the hamlet of Smallford. 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