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Dist:0.4km north<br/>The ford crosses the River Rib just west of the curiously named Cold Christmas and is on the 141 mile Harcamlow way (It starts and finishes in HARLOW, with CAMbridge in the middle: http://www.walkingontheweb.co.uk/Defined Routes/Harcamlow Way.htm )
©Graham Hardy
Dist:0.6km east<br/>The building is a water pumping station.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.7km east<br/>One of two water board pumping stations just outside the village of Cold Christmas.
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:0.8km west<br/>This view of the ruined Church Tower is taken from the overgrown churchyard on the eastern side of the tower.
©Steve Bayley
Dist:0.8km west<br/>Pulled down in 1853 only the tower remains. It was erected in the 15th century but contains C12th & C14th elements from an earlier church. The dedication is given variously as to All Saints, or St Mary. The field in the foreground is moated on 2 sides and the overgrown churchyard to the east contains many gravestones.
©Steve Bayley
Dist:1.0km north<br/>
©Alan Kent
Dist:1.3km south<br/>
©Alan Kent
Dist:1.3km west<br/>The road was opened on 8 October 2004 to bypass the villages of Wadesmill, Thundridge, High Cross and Colliers End, and linked up with the existing bypases on the A10 around Ware to the south and Puckeridge to the north. Here the bypass sweeps across the valley of the River Rib.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.4km northwest<br/>The church of St John the Evangelist, High Cross, was built in 1847 by Lady Giles-Puller and her son Mr Christopher William Puller.
©Catherine Edwards
Dist:1.5km west<br/>Old Church Lane leads, unsurprisingly, to the ruined old Church of St Mary and All Saints. However since the construction of the A10 Wadesmill Bypass it has been truncated for public vehicle use, and the national speed limit signs beyond the gate are now somewhat redundant. Beyond the embankment to the left is the River Rib.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.5km west<br/>The hut on the right houses the Environment Agency's water level and flow rate recording and telemetry equipment.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.6km west<br/>Ermine Street is an old Roman road. Normally these are very straight but occasionally, as here, the straightness principle was abandoned in order to overcome some particular geographical obstacle, probably in this case the crossing of the River Rib. There is an interesting historical name change going on in this village too. If you look at old Ordnance Survey 6" to the mile maps the whole settlement along Ermine Street on either side of the River Rib was shown as Wadesmill, while Thundridge was the name of the much larger parish centred on the church [[117556]] at the top of the hill at the southern end of the village. Certainly this naming arrangement was recorded as recently as the map edition of 1950, where the word Thundridge can only be found by zooming out of the mapping to show the whole parish. However all the current editions of the OS mapping now refer to Thundridge as the settlement on the south side of the river while Wadesmill has migrated so that it now only covers the village on the north side. There is too a howler in the current OS 1:25,000 scale mapping which refers to Thundridge as Thunderidge.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.6km southwest<br/>The road was opened on 8 October 2004 to bypass the villages of Wadesmill, Thundridge, High Cross and Colliers End, and linked up with the existing bypases on the A10 around Ware to the south and Puckeridge to the north. Here the bypass sweeps up the hill out of the valley of the River Rib.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.6km west<br/>
©Richard Thomas
Dist:1.6km northwest<br/>
©John Salmon

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