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This page is still being prepared. 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!

Legal History 2 Feb 1953: The route was recorded as CRF (Carriage Road used as a Footpath) on the original definitive statement. DM sheet DM2-19. 25 Nov 1969: The Welwyn Garden City (Watchmead) Public Path Diversion Order 1969 (confirmed 3 Mar 1970) affected this path. HCC reference DM2/114. 31 Dec 1977: The route was shown as part bridleway part byway on the special review draft map and statement. DM sheets SR-57 and SR-58.

Definitive Statement (4 Dec 2015) Path: [Welwyn Garden City] 10.  Status: Bridleway/Byway open to all traffic.  Definitive Map sheets: 57 and 58 Commences from Swallowfields End, thence SE along railway boundary, across same to Grid Ref: TL2502 1291 at the boundary of industrial unit D, thence south-eastwards for 3 metres to Grid Ref: TL2503 1290, thence north-eastwards for 83 metres to Watchmead (Grid Ref: TL2508 1297), thence south-eastwards along Watchmead for 47 metres to Grid Ref: TL2518 1293. Width: Minimum of 3 metres between Grid Ref: TL2502 1291 and Grid Ref: TL2518 1293 unspecified elsewhere.

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