Too windy today to comfortably cycle the route I had planned, so I caught a train to Hitchin and walked back the pretty way. The weather was not so bad; I was warm enough and the rain restrained itself until after I arrived home.
The going was not so much muddy as extremely wet. Although the River Hiz in the centre of Hitchin appeared no higher than usual, the fields and footpaths on the way back were saturated. In some places ditches were so full that water was flowing out of them sideways.
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| Views of Hitchin town centre |
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| Oak apples |
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| Gosmore |
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| Houses around Gosmore recreation ground |
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| St Ibbs Lodge |
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| Ippollitts Brook, above the dam |
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| Ippollitts Brook, below the dam |
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| St Ippolyts Park |
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| Little Almshoe Cottage. I love this house |
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| Sunlight on waterlogged field |
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| Footpath requiring wellies |
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| Bluebells |
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| Flooded field at Titmore Green. The water is flowing in from a ditch on the left |
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| Not the most inspiring countryside, but it could be worse. Looking north-west towards Hitchin |
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| Field of sugar-beet. One plant has bolted. |
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| This lane once ran from the Crooked Billet pub at Symonds Green. It was severed by the building of the Stevenage bypass in 1962 |
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