Hiking routes around Chelmsford

Essex Way passes through Chelmsford: 3 sections with 132 km mapped in all, 43 km of them within 15 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Three Forests Way, 97 km long. Regional routes account for the largest share: 131 of the 173 km of waymarked route within 15 km. Most of the 10 local routes are short walks: 8 of them are under 10 km.

• Essex WayRegional · 3 sections43 km within 15 km · 132 km in all
• St Peter's WayRegional39 km within 15 km · 67 km in all
• Centenary CircleRegional33 km within 15 km
• Admiral McHardy WayLocal14 km within 15 km
• Three Forests WayRegional13 km within 15 km · 97 km in all
• John Ray WalkLocal8.1 km within 15 km · about 16 km in all
• Lingwood Common to Blakes Wood Walk, DanburyLocal5.4 km within 15 km
• Repton's WalkLocal2.9 km within 15 km
• Blakes Wood to Lingwood Common Walk, DanburyLocal2.5 km within 15 km
• Danbury Common to Lingwood Common Walk, DanburyLocal2.5 km within 15 km
• Hylands Estate Boundary WalkLocal2.3 km within 15 km
• The Saffron TrailRegional1.8 km within 15 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
• Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
• Lengths within 15 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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