East Hanningfield Walk

East Hanningfield is a typical country village, a neat wide green runs alongside the main road. On this are two public houses, a church and a police station. The post office has been moved to the new village hall near to the school but is still in the centre of the village, all essential to thriving village life.

Details of Walk

• Date of Walk: 28/08/2011

• Distance: 5.41 Miles

• Level of Difficulty: A Fairly Easy Walk

• Car Park: Village Hall CM3 8AE

• Refreshments: The Windmill or The Three Horses

• Photos Taken on Walk

I used to come to East Hanningfield a lot when I was young as I had a job delivering meat for Copsey's and I used to help Eric and he used to always stop at the Three Horseshoes for one or two beers and in those days there was no problem drinking and driving and I stay in the van and had a Pepsi, the van was a Volkswagen not the most popular shape but the later model. The garden in the vicarage is supposed to have the oldest well in the country, which is 480 feet deep. There are even the ruins of a medieval church a mile outside the village, but we did not come across them. The main business in the village is Cobb breeding which is a worldwide company breeding chicks and I used to drive Mr Tyson who owned the company years ago when he came to England. This walk touches on the outskirts of three villages East Hanningfield, Bicknacre and Woodham Ferrers. We went pass paddocks with racing horses in and a horses exercise machine. At Barrack lodge you have to go round the back of the house and there is a tree stump that has been made into a seat with great views. When we got back to Hanningfield we had coffee at the Windmill and while we were seating outside it started raining and we sat outside under the umbrella while everyone else had gone for shelter.

The garden in the vicarage is supposed to have the oldest well in the country, which is 480 feet deep. There are even the ruins of a medieval church a mile outside the village, but we did not come across them. The main business in the village is Cobb breeding which is a worldwide company breeding chicks and I used to drive Mr Tyson who owned the company years ago when he came to England. This walk touches on the outskirts of three villages East Hanningfield, Bicknacre and Woodham Ferrers. We went pass paddocks with racing horses in and a horses exercise machine. At Barrack lodge you have to go round the back of the house and there is a tree stump that has been made into a seat with great views. When we got back to Hanningfield we had coffee at the Windmill and while we were seating outside it started raining and we sat outside under the umbrella while everyone else had gone for shelter.