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On the River Lea at Stanstead Abbotts heading for Roydon Mill.
©Hazel
These boats are moored at Stanstead Abbotts on the River Lea. The centre boat belonged to my parents.
©Hazel
Sited a mile away from its village, St James’ was the parish church for at least 700 years until St Andrew’s, nearer the centre, replaced it in 1882. Picturesque on its hilltop and largely ignored by the Victorians, it is a marvellously atmospheric church. The building dates from the 12th to the 16th centuries and the 15th century timbered porch is notable. Inside are unusually high Georgian box pews, a three-decker pulpit, texts, hatchments, old glass and monuments of many periods.
©Catherine Edwards
Dist:0.4km<br/>A shortcut to Cat's Hill. And yes, I did see a cat near here.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.4km<br/>The A414 is a link road between the A10 and M11. At peak times it would be very busy but was quiet on a Saturday afternoon. Looking north-east.
©Stephen Craven
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©Brian Johnson
Dist:0.4km<br/>A fast narrow B road with blind bends and summits and no side refuges, coupled with horse riders, is an accident waiting to happen.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Downhill to Hunsford on the B180, or uphill to Roydon on the B181.
©Colin Bell
Dist:0.5km<br/>The almshouses on Roydon Road were endowed under the terms of the will of Sir Edward Baesh in 1653. The almshouses and their forecourt wall are Grade II* Listed. The English Heritage Listed Building website describes them as follows:- "Red brick in English-bond with a long steep old red tiled roof. A single storey row of 3 handed pairs of almshouses facing NW. Each pair has 2 plank doors together, in a heavy chamfered wooden frame, a 3-light ovolo-moulded casement window with ironcentral opening light for each house, a gable over the door with a single small 2-light ovolo-moulded window with leaded lattice glazing, and a shared central chimney with a pair of diagonally set shafts. Toothed corbel course below the eaves and low plastered plinth. Modern single-storey small additions at rear and each end. Red brick wall around elongated forecourt garden, taller at ends, reduced at front but with heavy sloped brick coping reinstated. Square gatepiers with stone caps and C20 wrought iron gate. A landmark at a bend in the road at the S end of the village." The Listed Buildings website also describes them as The Baish Almshouses.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>One of a pair of angel corbels on the surround of the west door of St James's [[1447154]]. This one is the less badly weathered of the two.
©Stephen Craven
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.6km<br/>The church is now redundant, looked after by the Churches Conservation trust http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/findachurch/st-james-stanstead-abbotts/?region=Hertfordshire and only open to the public on Sunday afternoons in summer. For other views see [[116412]] and [[364556]].
©Stephen Craven
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.7km<br/>Taken from the B181 road
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:0.8km<br/>Newlands is at the start of the Public Footpath that leads to Little Briggens.
©Melvyn Cousins

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