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Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Now part of a Hotel.
©John Salmon
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Originally a Jacobean style mansion built in 1890 by Edmond Hanbury, it then became a convent, and is now a Five Star Hotel & Country Club with an eighteen hole Golf Course.
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:0.6km east<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:0.6km east<br/>
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:0.8km north<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:0.8km north<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:0.8km northwest<br/>Like so many tarmac'd farm roads there is a healthy growth of grass up the middle. The crop on the right awaits harvesting (though the perimeter has been cut). On the left the ground has been tilled and left to the weeds. Whilst checking the map in the car after taking this photo, three large trucks drove down this road; Shame, they would have given some life to the scene.
©Martin Addison
Dist:0.8km north<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:0.8km north<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:0.8km north<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:0.8km south<br/>The photograph shows the Athletics track and the main Sports Hall at The Wodson Park sports centre in Ware
©Chris Hunt
Dist:0.9km northwest<br/>A Hertfordshire Constabulary warning notice has been attached to the Public Bridleway signpost stating that hare coursers will be prosecuted and that their vehicles may be seized in accordance with the Police Reform Act of 2002.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.9km north<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

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