The Nickey Line is a disused railway route in Hertfordshire, England, that now serves as a popular walking and cycling path. It connects Hemel Hempstead, Redbourn, and Harpenden, providing a traffic-free green corridor through countryside and woodland.
Key Features of the Nickey Line:
Former Railway: The Nickey Line was originally the Harpenden and Hemel Hempstead Railway.
Walking and Cycling Path: It’s been repurposed as a footpath and cycleway, forming part of the National Cycle Network.
Green Corridor: It provides a scenic and traffic-free route for recreation and commuting.
Length: The line is approximately 7 miles (12 km) long.
History: It was opened as a footpath/cycleway in 1985.
Community Engagement: The Friends of the Nickey Line organization actively works to maintain, improve, and promote the line.
Future Vision: There is a vision for the future of the Nickey Line, focusing on accessibility, biodiversity, and user experience.
Educational Value: The Nickey Line offers opportunities to learn about railway history and the local environment.
[Music] and a jolly good morning to you from a rather autuminal gray overcast and drizzly Harpendon in Hertfordshire uh I’m going to go on a a little walk today that’s been uploaded by a user of the Go Jaunt the app one of my go-to apps for just walking around random places uh Harpendon’s a nice town here in Hertfordshire and uh has got lots of interesting shops cafes and such like to visit if you ever find yourself here or make a point of coming here uh it’s also um quite rural once you get outside the town itself so therefore is uh quite nice for going for some walks so I decided to have a little look uh where I can walk to today uh from this town i’ve just got off a train here at Harpendon Railway Station and uh I’m going to go and head into the town pick up a coffee and then head off on a walk uh which is called a fivemile whispering whispering wood I think hang on a sec whispering wood 5 mile in fact is how it’s been uploaded so uh I was almost right um so I’m going to head off now uh using the app and see where it takes me to it’s heading off in a direction in Harpendon that uh I don’t think I’ve really walked before so that should be interesting uh just walking down the uh station station road or station approach here down to the high street and I’m pretty sure we’re going straight ahead at the high street off towards the uh outskirts of the town and uh some countryside so that should be interesting uh the clue’s in the name I guess we’re in Harpendon um I presume we’ll be walking through some woods and uh the walk will be approximately 5 miles long so let’s go let’s see what we see sending me off in that general direction over there um but I’m going to take a little walk just a little circular extra part of the high street i know when I walk back towards the station later on I’ll be coming back um from left to right down there um across and round back up to the station but I’m just going to take a little walk down this part of the high street cuz it’s quite nice here some uh independent shops and cafes along with the usual um collection of brands and chains and so on that you would know uh but it is a nice little town in that sense that uh yeah I mean other than the big brands there’s some other places to choose from as well which is always good can’t say that about everywhere nothing to do with this video but uh might as well mention it anyway i just popped into the local library here just to uh just have a look really cuz they’re usually quite interesting uh places to have a little look around at especially if you want to look up some uh local information and things like that if you’re going for a walk around an area and uh I was just staggered at the uh uh lack of um uh how much it’s open and the fact that 3 days a week it’s only what they call library express in the morning which is most of it cordoned off and just a small area that you can go into that’s a very not not a great turn of events so I don’t know how long that’s been going on for but uh they gave me a little card of opening times and while it’s open six days a week at 9:00 in the morning one two three mornings a week it’s uh 9 till,300 the little cordoned off area only and uh one two three whole days when the library is the full library is open and two afternoons i don’t suppose it’s too bad i’ve just turned up actually it’s a Tuesday today so it’s just the express part of the library which is really only for um basic services you know and some of the stuff extra stuff they do like printing and things like that and returning books and so on um the full uh library of books if you like is not available to look at which is a shame but there you go i don’t know if that’s uh becoming a standard practice but uh it really needs to stop if it is libraries of so important anyway that’s my uh my little rant over with early in this video i’m just going to peg back around on the high street now and uh continue on the actual route as per the Go Jauntly app you can uh if uh you’re new to the Jo Go Jauntly app you can create your own walks dependent on how long or how far you want to walk and uh just uh from wherever you’re located or an A to B walk from where you’re located to somewhere else and it will find a interesting route for you to take and uh as normal as soon as I start videoing all the services come out with their sirens blazing there’ll be some drilling going on later on I’m I’m sure um it’s like police car this morning he wants to know wants everyone to know he’s here wow sleepy Harpendon um you can almost guarantee it as soon as I start filming for the first time that’s seen been seen here for weeks anyway there you go there’s a few nice little bakeries here as well which uh will be uh receiving my custom later on but better not weigh myself down with uh too many carbs just now i said it is a that library I mentioned is only a little quite a little library it’s not one of the huge ones like you get in big towns but even so [Music] so uh originally came down there from the station just had a little walk around the high street in a bit of a circle and the app sending me across this way to what looks to be quite a swanky restaurant over there called Lusman’s heard that before i don’t know if it’s a chain or there’s uh but uh there’s going to be well known well-known restaurants or small restaurant chains that are popular in London and Harpendon is the kind of place that have a another one uh [Music] sustainable fishing grill Yeah I think there’s one in Hitchin as well i’ have seen them around so it’s not a one-off place for sure fairly high-end I should think here [Music] to be a fun fair in town over on the green there it’s normally completely cleared place for people to walk the dogs and run around and so on but it’s full of uh full of fun fair just at the moment not sure how popular that’s going to be in the middle of uh middle of September harpendon Town Council uh Park Hall built in 1850 with government funding and public subscription monies as the British school or land given in trust by Sir John Bennett Laws uh refurbished by Harpen Town Council and opened as a community hall in October 1994 very splendid it looks too still got its Christmas lights up or are they got them up early for this year still a way off yet guys lot of traffic about this morning I have to say it’s this is a quite a busy place here but uh seems to be more than there ought to be um way after school and usual work starting times so I don’t know what’s going on too many people with nothing much to do i’m guessing a bit like me really right so yeah this is uh Rothamstead rotthamstead rotamstead rothamstead rotthamstead Park uh it’s a new one on me for sure i’ve never walked I’ve been to Harpender many times never come out this way though so this is interesting and uh from the distance this looks quite a big park nice to see a water bottle refiller i’ll just take advantage of that myself if it’s working and uh good description of uh when it was turned into a park and uh where we are in that park this um uh slightly mirror looking building I guess you could say um which is a museum is uh the Eric Morham Center and uh for those of you certain age or older you’ll know exactly who that is uh for you youngsters if there are any youngsters that watch old guys wandering about [Music] i thought I had someone call my name then must be hearing things yeah if uh those of you that are a little bit younger if any of you youngsters do actually watch old guys like me wandering about amling and talking nonsense you probably haven’t got a clue who Eric Morham is but look him up absolute British legend not even from this part of the world um but had a close association with the Lutontown Football Club which isn’t very far away from here and uh this is obviously a theater as well has a museum and uh there is also the Harpend and Leisure Center over there wow i never knew this existed so I’ve discovered something new today already oh yeah what a splendid park very well kept as well um it seems to have gone down the route of Oh somebody shouting at me i’m getting paranoid today i think first I think I hear my name then I hear some lady shouting and thinking she’s shouting at me she’s not she’s just talking loudly on her phone as she runs believe it or not anyway back to the park yeah wellappointed park it’s got loads of facilities children’s playground just behind me to the left not being much used at the moment particularly due to the weather and the fact uh they should be in school or the uh not not such young ones should be in school um they seem to have gone down the route of keeping it manicured rather than the um popular idea of letting everything grow long and wild flowers and butterflies and what have you uh but there’s some woods up here that I imagine will take care of that need very nice park actually delighted uh delighted I’ve selected this walk today actually because um it uh [Music] I love it when I uh find new places in places I’ve been to many times so yeah this is a huge park lots of football benches over there as well nice seats to sit on overlooking yeah I like it i like this park a lot very nice so we’re just heading to the kind of the exit of it what looks like to be kind of a country lane and um probably fairly quickly yeah there’s a public footpath signs there as well so not really sure where this is leading to next but we’ll follow it anyway see if we can hear some whispering in the woods too stick the signs say actually bridal Way to Harpendon Common Town Center where we’ve just come from bridal Way Hatching Green i guess we’re heading that way then oh that sign needs looking at come on guys that means I know that’s a lot of uh sap and what have you dripping off the trees that have caused that but even so [Music] this walk should take about uh 1 and 1/2 hours 1 and 3/4 it’s going to take me way over two because of uh all the stopping and starting I’ve done so far to have a look at various things including a little deviation off down the high street but uh anyway Harper and High Street certainly is a um great place to start a walk for many reasons particularly if you’d like a pub or a cafe mana Farm now then apparently we’re still there ah I see right so North Hamstead Research okay so this is interesting as well there’s a website there if you’re interested to see with the list the driveways footpaths and so on [Music] really happy it’s definitely sending me up this road [Music] a lot of people out with their dogs today it’s a nice day for a walk actually it’s um probably 14 15 Celsius it’s not cold um it’s uh and it started the sun’s starting to come out as well it was really quite dismal as you would have seen um some 30 45 minutes ago when I got got to Harpendon um but have dried up now which is good this is more like the weather I was actually expecting today field phenotyping platform guess it’s that over there uh let’s just Oh hold that bit steadier [Music] um this unique facility a world first for automated measuring of crop growth and health in the field was installed for Rotthamstead research in 2015 by Lemnitech uh the gantry supports a positionable measuring platform with multiple sensors and crops within a 10 m and 120 m area can be monitored 24 hours per day throughout the season a high degree of resolution and reproductibility not reproducibility but reproducibility with complete automation currently re the research focuses on wheat improvement for yield and quality together this technology will allow detailed monitoring of plant architecture crop health and function with unparalleled accuracy and will contribute to our food security and sustainability programs that all sounds very scientific and interesting basically it’s um taking pictures of wheat growing or any other plants I guess uh they could do um presumably in uh controlled areas of certain conditions uh obviously the weather being the number one condition but uh the um different uh uh what would you call it the different sprays and things that go on [Music] uh to help them grow and pesticides things like that I’m guessing is what they’re looking at there interesting you know I never knew this place existed absolutely fabulous great place for a walk as well there’s a road here i’ve only seen one car come up and that looked like it was an official vehicle for the uh for the farm to be heading off the roads now not red roads going left to right um public ride away to Nikki uh Nikki line 3/4 of a mile old railway line and public brideway hatching green to the left and we’re taking the one that’s uh presumably that one public footpath 9 red lane that’s the direction I’ve been sent on anyway feel got my muddy boots on today incidentally uh if you can hear me above the wind it’s quite windy across this uh uh meadow um I I’ve do quite a few walks in the Hertfordshire Bedfordshire area also in London down in Kent uh Sussex Surrey so on and so forth all in and around London uh if you’re more if you’re interested any more to do with um Hertfordshire I’ve got quite an interesting one walking a big circular walk around a St lawrence which is uh towards Welling area uh quite a few in Bedfordshire Northart’s area and Bedfordshire so check them out on my channel if you like this uh particular video please click the like and maybe subscribe if you want to find the channel and have a look for some other videos and uh allegedly if you press that um yellow bell thing it will notify you when other videos come out i usually issue a couple of new ones a week and sometimes reissue ones uh from a while ago that didn’t do particularly well maybe they got missed somehow or whatever so I pop them on there again just to uh revitalize them so it’s a mixture of old and new at the moment um for the rest of this year 2024 it’ll all be UK um I might have a couple of straddler uh uh new videos I’m talking about will be UK UK ones um overseas ones will start appearing next year uh however in the meantime there will be some repeats if you like of overseas ones that I’ve done over the last uh four or five years so look out for those if you’re interested uh mostly the information is still relevant um although lost to coin a phrase uh prices opening times and information weren’t correct at the time of recording there you go uh but this is firmly September 2024 uh on a really gray day quite windy now as well but it’s nice good fresh air have to watch these apps sometimes it uh I was so busy talking there i uh missed the point where I was supposed to turn off in this general direction i was heading over towards what I can see as a style or a gate over over there and uh wrongly assumed that’s where I was headed uh just when I stopped talking I had a quick look at the app to find is over this where I’ve got to go which looks far more interesting to me because we’re going into the into the woods now uh which should be less windy as well and it’s uh it’s kind of started to spit with rain again so um stay away from that as much as possible uh it’s one thing with uh going out walking in Britain make sure you take the right kit with you um and uh certain sort of spring and autumn you kind of need kit for just about every weather condition you know what it’s going to be like in the height of summer and the middle of winter but spring and autumn can be somewhat changeable and uh yeah take stuff that will dry easily if it gets wet a lot of shouting going on over there i presume there’s a can see some Oh I think it’s a sports field or a school sports field of some description i can see some rugby posts and I think uh some guys out there in the game of rugby [Music] this is very interesting actually I never even knew about this place but the uh Rottenhamstead research certainly is uh or appears at least to be doing some great work here um and uh unlike the park we’ve got a park grass meadow uh haven of wild flowers and insect biodiversity that’s what I was trying to sort of say earlier on um but uh I couldn’t think of the right words for it actually that uh this is great something really calming about walking in woods that I love um especially when it’s a on a really windy day cuz uh danger of wood falling on your head or something but uh actually that’d be nice wouldn’t they yeah i wish I could get those back for the fire bit of a trek from here though um but uh yeah gentle breeze blowing through the trees when you’re walking in the woods especially somewhere as quiet as this are quite uh we are quite close to um the M1 motorway we’re not massively close to it but I I can kind of hear it worring in the distance which is a shame but there you go uh certainly once you get into the woods here there’s uh that does dampen the sound down somewhat and you can hear much more the the birds and uh other little critters uh running around in here quite a few squirrels about uh when they haven’t run up a tree when they see someone’s dog coming and uh yeah and the sound of the wind in the tree is fantastic [Music] it’s on my map which is um the Go Ja the apps map mentions quite a few places on there that don’t ring any bells i presume they’re farm names uh bones close I think to one which is I think that one coming up ahead so I’ll see if there’s a sign when I get up there but interested to know what those what those names actually represent it doesn’t really show it as being a farm on the map but uh just as a a place name really always interesting though to get out and about these places to uh discover stuff even stuff that’s relatively on your doorstep which uh here is for me i’ve lived in this part of the world for uh well over 30 years in fact really if you include a little bit further away from here i’ve lived here for 50 years really but um not quite 30 years certainly quite close to this area i’ve never been out here before um I’ve been along the neckline walked the neckline before which can cross over it on this walk i possibly do um fantasies to sit here welcoming i don’t know i’ll find out in a minute but uh yeah amazing what you uh what you come across and uh you know you replicate all this across the entire country how much there is and how fortunate we are in this country in Britain to have all these public footpaths on our own it is uh a source of great jealousy to many walkers in other countries uh that they don’t necessarily have this uh network that we have in this country in Britain to be able to walk essentially right the way through the middle of farms and farm fields so uh again I’ve I’ve gone on about this many times and uh it’s uh you know something of great pleasure I take in the fact that we have this and great pride that this country manages to keep hold of it and not let it disappear just going to have to stop here a moment just to make sure I’m in the right direction just spoke to uh one of a friendly local just asking if she knew what uh all these place names were all about and uh she was slightly beused herself she she knew the names um I I think almost as though the fields have been given names or the pastures have been given names uh if it’s part of this research uh place I’m guessing uh the field will be given a specific name as they’re quite clearly There’s um research going on in this field here in that center bit there sort of marked off with white poles and so on i have a feeling that’s probably what it is what I hope it isn’t is uh where someone’s stuck their flag in the ground to turn it into a housing development because that would be a terrible shame if this part of the world was dug up and turned into a generic housing estate but uh you never know you never know this day and age what they’re going to allow but I don’t think it is that it’s called not wood i’m going to be walking around that maybe through it as well in the moment that’s bone’s close right in front of us i’m absolutely no idea i said there is a kind of a fenced off area over there which is all part of this uh research so I’m pretty sure that’s what it is different areas where different part research is going on we take a left here uh we’ll carry on in a straight line where those ladies there are coming from um to walk towards not wood which I’m guessing is one uh if not all of the woods that uh they’re referred to in the whispering part of this uh uploaded walk [Music] feeling I might be coming back around that way at some point but uh the app is sending me this way this is the way I’m going to be going this is uh this is a great walk i’m absolutely thrown to bits with this um yeah i mean dependent on the type of walking you like to do some of my walks on the channel are around cities and towns which are okay as well countryside’s best although there tends to be less attractions if you like or things to see buildings and what have you but gives you a great idea of uh how easy it is to get out into the countryside get some good exercise get some steps in and some fresh air and uh a uh certain level of peace and tranquility at least in the uh southern half of the UK you’re uh never too far away from a busy road and traffic but uh you can get away to a certain extent if you want to if you want to um find something a little bit more tranquil and really away from it then head up into places like the Darbishop Peak District uh the Welsh Hills and Mountains um I would say the Lake District but that can get pretty busy too um and of course Scotland the Highlands of Scotland and you’ll find your own pieces of space in all of those places even at the busiest times but uh yeah on your local doorstep too you can find relative calm and peace and tranquility and uh get out and enjoy it it’s good for the soul believe you me and the spirit as we curve back towards Harpendon um along here another I don’t know quarter of a mile or so I’m going to go onto the Nikki line now the Nikki line uh which is officially known as the uh Harpendon and Heml Hemstead Railway is a Dissues railway line now closed many years ago probably a beaching cut not really certain on that but uh certainly uh it’s been a long time since any trains ran along it now a um cycle track part of the national cycle network and footpath as well obviously and uh I have walked it from Heml Hemstead to Harpendon on previous occasion i didn’t make a video of it this was quite a few years ago now um before I started making videos in fact but uh I went out for a walk with a couple of friends and it was lovely really nice walk so going to be uh revisiting part of that today only a small section of it though uh which will be interesting and uh if you follow that I’m not sure if this uh this walk actually follows it all the way back into Harpendon itself completely or uh veers off at some point before we get to Harpendon and takes another route back into the town i don’t know until I come to it on this app but uh if you’re lost you can just follow that straight in and come to uh the sort of north part of Harpendon I guess where it used to come where it comes into the town so many of these old railway lines now cycle tracks and uh foot paths and so on it’s always nice when you walk down them if uh some of the old infrastructure is still there some of the bridges occasionally some tunnels and uh other such things i’m not sure if there is on this but we’ll soon find out well there certainly are whispering woods especially on a day like today with a bit of a breeze in the air and uh so this walk is certainly doing what it says on the tin and uh we’re just coming up to the Nikki line now already I can see the uh track alignment there and the the bank as uh it makes it way way makes its way through undulating land obviously trains uh don’t like going up and downhill very much so have to keep them at a reasonably flat level with not too many big gradients and this uh this part of Hertfordshire is just on the edge of the Chilton Hills so it’s uh while it’s not uh huge mountains or anything like that uh it is quite undulating can probably hear the sound of the motorway in the background there and uh here’s a sign um obviously the walk can continue that way uh but the one that I’m following today is along the Nikki line and if you go that way you will eventually get to Hamilton Hemstead and uh we’re going this way and we will eventually get back to Harpendon interestingly talking about uh trains not liking going up hills this is uh for a railway line at least quite a quite a steep gradient i mean it’s not massively steep but uh I can imagine the steam trains that used to come along here would be huffing and puffing over this section uh up to the top over there um I’ve noticed a slight difference since I turned on to this uh I’m not huffing and puffing though not as such anyway it’s a good quality track actually seems to be kept I seem to remember this from when I came down here before it’s excuse me kept in good nick [Music] and ideal for walking and cycling along along [Music] heat hey hey hey [Music] nothing major infrastructure wise old railway in in that sense um there’s some uh very old fences to each side which presumably were the fences between the railway and the farmer’s fields of years ago of course the trees and hedges and so on have built up all around that since obviously they don’t need to be kept cut back quite the same as they used to [Music] all these overhanging branches that would have got uh indeed quite in the way and um indeed would have been a fire hazard uh in steam train days [Music] just looking ahead on the instructions for this walk um yeah it is only a short visit to the Nikki line uh the top of this hill where it carries on curling round back towards Harpend and North um uh we’re going to peel off back onto public footpaths back towards the town that way through the woods so that’ll be interesting but it’s been nice to revisit just a small section of this uh former railway line today and perhaps uh perhaps I’ll go back and redo the walk in the not too distant future uh and record it this time all the way from Heml Hemstead [Music] so many out walking their dogs this morning it’s quite incredible um it’s uh Tuesday Tuesday morning so yeah plenty have got time on the hands to do that as as of course I have before you all say it and uh it’s good people are finding time to get out here lovely lovely place to walk this really is i’m very impressed with this i certainly should be coming here again um when I’m won’t be videoing and just uh enjoying more the surroundings i think I’m going to be taking a right turn just at the top of the hill there with some steps and a dust bin uh maybe something interesting to look at before I veer off the railway line or former railway line I should say so going to turn off the Nikki Nikki line now um it does actually signpost it to Harpendon 34 of a mile which is what um just over 2 km um you can go left here to Luton Lane whatever that is and uh the app is sending me back a right turn back towards Roamstead Park threequarters of a mile so uh broken the back of this walk by the sounds of things if it’s only 3/4 of a mile back to there and then probably another 3/4 of a mile back to the station so uh can’t be more than a mile and a half to go now so feels about right but uh yeah the uh Nikki line continues on over there on the other side of that tree line and where you can see the almost inevitable uh telegraph cables so again interestingly walking away from the line as a Yeah I would say that would bring you into Harpendon a little bit too far north uh to keep this walk down to 5 miles it probably add another mile on going over that in that direction i would have thought uh not my mind but uh when I find these walks on the app I do like to follow them uh someone’s took the time to upload them and uh so I try and follow them because they’ve uploaded them for a reason could have brought a little uh bowl to collect blackberries there’s been plenty of those available this morning so busy uh contemplating life and nearly took a wrong turn again just suddenly spotted those signs in the corner but I thought better just double check with the app and sure enough turn right down here continuing in the direction of the Rotthamstead Park to be reaching some uh civilization now houses probably the edge of Harpendon [Music] this has been a great walk actually cuz the temperature is just right perfect for walking just bit a shame there’s just not a touch more sunshine [Music] bit of chalk in the soil here but uh it’s not as chalky as it is as you get further into the children’s we come out towards the Rockhamstead Park shortly and uh essentially just going to be walking back through it on the opposite side to the side I walked up in the first place and back down into Harpendon and uh a little little jaunt along the high street again uh which will be ideal to pick up a couple of provisions and um back to the station uh luckily I’ve got plenty of time on my hands today i’m going to go off and uh visit somewhere else today it won’t involve a video but um it will uh there’s no great hurry i’m going to go and uh go down into London and uh take care of a few matters there and uh all’s great ideal way to spend the morning so yeah very pleased to have seen the Nikki line again I have to say um when I looked at the initial I selected the particular walk when I put Harpendon into the app and it came up with a 5 miles thought that’s perfect for the amount of time I’ve got and um and the direction it was heading off i thought perfect again it’s not a particular direction I’ve been in before uh but it might head out towards the Nikki line and so it did which is fantastic [Music] and uh as you uh get back towards the town you can see how much more these paths are being used than further back there um obviously some people either don’t want to walk as far as that or can’t walk as far as that um but the nearer you get to the town the more evidence of people there is including unfortunately sometimes litter although I have to say this walk and Harpendon in general is uh very litter-free which is excellent uh unfortunately we can’t say that for uh all our towns in the UK um saddens me to see rubbish just dumped into hedges and bushes and on the floor where you could just take it home and put it in a bin i really don’t understand why someone would just throw things on the floor like that but there you go people do uh fortunately it doesn’t appear to be an issue around here i’m not sure if it’s uh cuz uh this part of the world is uh quite affluent to say the least or it’s education combination of the two or or what it is i really don’t know i wouldn’t like to speculate really either because I might get myself into trouble there but um there’s something that causes certain and I I I also think that certain councils don’t help matters either by having insufficient numbers of dust bins or uh street cleaners and things like that but you shouldn’t really need street cleaners should you really in a way uh I know stuff can end up blowing out of bins and rubbish can end up on the floor accidentally but uh really and truly on the whole it shouldn’t really need street cleaners but there you go we do um anyway I said I wouldn’t have another rant today and I’ve just gone and done one so apologies for that [Music] and here we are as if by magic back to Rotthamstead Park and uh the Harpendon Town Council area and uh as I mentioned earlier on oh there’s a load of football pitches over there we’re over here now where those football pitches are also a cricket pitch there normally you’d expect uh especially as winter’s coming around the cricket wicket to be uh kind of fenced off to stop people walking across it or um things like that but uh this isn’t strangely it would make perfect sense to uh not going to stop dogs and animals and people going in if they want to it’s just uh if you cordon it off a little bit um just reminds people that that’s a cricket wicket and not a football pitch and uh as such you know try and keep off it cuz it needs to be kept nice and smooth and and uh rolled and fit for purpose certainly seen a few games this season i can tell by the creases there on the pitch uh probably be no more there this year [Music] i was walking right by that tree line in the distance the far distance earlier on at the start of this walk i’m going to head back down to the town down down down this way on the other side of the Eric Morham Center and uh my homestead uh leisure center and so on done well to avoid that sort of noise today [Music] usually uh every time I start speaking someone fires one up as we head back down into the valley uh where the town is going past some lovely lovely lovely old houses here and uh cones and signs saying you can’t park out here and what have you we’ve got a giant great big drive so I don’t know why you’d be bothered by that but anyway um presumably because it’s so near to the park and uh people get access to the park and the football pitches by coming up these roads so I sort of understand in a way but yeah some lovely lovely houses here uh as is uh mostly the case here in Harpendon in general just coming towards the St orin’s Road uh Leighton Green I think this is called uh yeah [Music] quite a pleasant little part of Harpendon uh just going to walk through there back towards the high street and uh wind my way back towards the station um I think you’ve seen everything that needs to be seen now um Harpendon is uh a lovely little town quite uh quite affluent and uh full of interesting places to uh see and visit and a lot of uh independent shops cafes and restaurants that sort of thing so worthy of a visit if you’re ever in the area uh I will say now thank you for watching i hope you enjoyed this uh little 5mile walk around the outskirts of Harpendon and the Nikki line and the countryside that surrounds this part of the world and uh hope you’ll have a little look on my channel to see some more um from this part of the world and other parts of the world too Europe and beyond so enjoy that uh thank you for watching and I’ll see you in the next one cheers for now bye-bye [Music] [Music] heat heat [Music]