Annotated map reproduced courtesy of Googlemaps.	This way starts from Bishop's Stortford 8A and continues generally westwards to Bishop's Stortford 74 and (in Essex) Farnham 20 bridleway. We need a volunteer to photograph this route for this year’s Access and Riding Rights of Way Survey. It's easy - just take photographs (safely) when you use the path. Find out more!
If you have ridden the route, please download a user evidence form and then follow the instructions and return the form to us. It only takes a few minutes to fill in (the whole form fits on one side of a piece of A4 paper). If you have any other questions, please email us.

Legal History The numbering of paths in Bishop's Stortford before 2000 was unlike that in the rest of Hertfordshire! 2 Feb 1953: Bishop's Stortford 73 was not recorded on the original definitive map and statement, as it was in Essex at the time. DM sheet DM1-20 (Herts 23 NW). 1 Nov 2000: Bishop's Stortford 73 was not recorded on the 2000 definitive map and statement, as it was in Essex at the time. DM sheet 37. 10 Dec 2005: Bishop's Stortford 73 was recorded as a bridleway on the 2005 definitive map and statement. DM sheet 37.

Definitive Statement (4 Dec 2015) Path: [Bishop's Stortford] 73.  Status: Bridleway.  Definitive Map sheet: 34 From its junction with FP8a N of Wickham Hall in a westerly direction to the County Boundary and junction with BR20 (Farnham, Essex) Maintainability This route is maintainable at the public expense because it was a footpath or bridleway existing before 30 Apr 1959.

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