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From the Lea Valley Walk
©Stephen Dawson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Birch Green may only be a small village but they take obvious and loving care of their memorial to the dead of two world wars.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking across the green, the distant house dates from 1914.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The bridge carries a disused railway, which is now a public footpath.
©Robert Edwards
Dist:1.0km<br/>This hall was originally called the ‘Cowper Memorial Hall’, but it has since been renamed ‘Mayflower Place’. It was built in 1910, on the instructions of Countess Cowper (pronounced Cuper), in memory of her husband who died in 1905, by the skilled workmen from the Cole Green Estate Works. The hall was built to provide a meeting and recreation place for the families of her estate workers.
©Robert Edwards
Dist:1.0km<br/>Part of the former station site (see [[7775]]), the picnic site is shown on O.S. maps but the dense tree cover makes it invisible on aerial mapping.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:1.0km<br/>The platform face of Cole Green station, on the Lea Valley Walk along the trackbed of the Welwyn to Hertford railway.
©Stephen Dawson
Dist:1.0km north<br/>The River Mimram Valley. The osier beds can be seen by the river.
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:1.0km southwest<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:1.1km west<br/>A disused railway line, like many others now part of the National Cycle Network. The disused station platform is shown in [[7775]]. Given the 5 years that have elapsed between the two pictures and the tendency of routes like this to become overgrown very quickly, it is a tribute to Sustrans rangers that they have kept it clear.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:1.1km west<br/>Situated in Station Road, Letty Green, this former station was on the railway line between Hertford (North) and Welwyn Garden City which closed for passenger service in June, 1951. Following complete closure on the 1st August, 1962, the track was lifted in July, 1967. The station building has since been demolished and the area is now a car park for the Cole Green Way, which is part of the Lea Valley Walk. The postcode of the site is SG14 2NS.
©David Hillas
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>
©Steve Bayley
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>Grotto Wood occupies the site of a 17th or early 18th century formal garden. The garden was associated with Roxford Manor (now the site of Roxford Farm). The wood contains the rather forlorn remains of three ornamental pools and a series of mounds. The grotto itself is long gone. The site is now a nature reserve.
©Steve Bayley
Dist:1.1km southwest<br/>
©Robert Edwards
Dist:1.1km west<br/>
©Robert Edwards

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