image of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway taken in 2025 showing well defined track between woods
 PG: OBJECTS: PROMOTION: Brickendon Liberty 30 - Broxbourne Woods Route
London Orbital Bridleroute: Anti-clockwise: HCC permissive Path, Bayford 7/Brickendon Liberty 3. Clockwise: Brickendon Liberty 24.  H25 
Map showing recorded Brickendon Liberty paths
Annotated map reproduced courtesy of Googlemaps.
This route starts from Brickendon Green (public road) and continues northeastwards to a junction with the permissive route on the County Council's land, then generally northeastwards across Brickendon Liberty 14 bridleway to Brickendon Liberty 24 restricted byway, opposite Hoddesdon 73 bridleway.

At the time of the 2025 Access Survey (2 Mar 25), the path was obstructed and poorly indicated. There was no council sign at the junction with Brickendon Green (public road). Some of the surfacing on the County Council section was worn away exposing the underlying membrane. At the edge of the Council's land, there was a fallen barbed wire fence, a ditch and bund. The path is then well defined and clear save for two locations where there are locked metal gates (spaces to side) and there is a barrier at the junction with Ermine Street (Brickendon Liberty 24 restricted byway). The route needs some waymark arrows to reinforce that it is a public bridleway.

Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Junction with road
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Continuing Northeastwards
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Fence, ditch and bund
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Continuing Northeastwards
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Continuing NE; Gate
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Continuing Northeastwards
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Continuing Northeastwards
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Continuing Northeastwards
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Barrier at Ermine Street junction
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025
Photograph of Brickendon Liberty 30 bridleway
Looking SW from Ermine Street
Photo: Phil Wadey, 2 Mar 2025

Legal History
2 Feb 1953: The route was not recorded on the original definitive map and statement.
31 Dec 1977: The route was not shown on the special review draft map and statement. DM sheet SR-71.
8 Jun 2016: Application made to record the route as a bridleway. HCC reference EH/446 and EH/447.
20 Jul 2018: The Hertfordshire County Council (Hoddesdon 73 and Brickendon Liberty 30) Modification Order 2018 (confirmed 4 Sep 2024) added this route to the definitive map and statement as a bridleway. PINS reference ROW/3310191.
Application Process
Path Application Certificate Direction Inv Report Order Confirmed
EC381D 8 Jun 2016 EH/448 Submitted Not Required 31 Mar 2017 20 Jul 2018 4 Sep 2024
Inquiry Timetable
Path Start Date OMA SOC Other SOCs POEs Inquiry Result
EC381D 8 Jan 2024 4 Mar 2024 15 Apr 2024 18 Jun 2024 16-19 Jul 2024 4 Sep 2024
Definitive Statement (6 Jul 2018)
Path: [Brickendon Liberty] 30.  Status: Bridleway.  Definitive Map sheet: 71
Commences from parish boundary and junction with RB 24 and Hoddesdon BR 73 at TL 3473 0837 then runs SW along track through Highfield Wood for approx 850m to cross BR 14 at TL 3390 0818 then runs SW along track through Bramble's Wood and Cowheath Wood for approx 950m to cross FP 13 at TL 3312 0763 and continues SW along track through Broxbourne Wood for approx 315m to the S corner of car park and junction with Pembridge Lane at TL 3242 0706.
Width: 4m
Limitations: a bridle gate and gap at TL 3470 0836 and a gate at tL 3285 0741.
Maintainability
Part of this route (G to J on the order plan) is maintainable at the public expense because it was a footpath or bridleway existing before 30 Apr 1959.

© 2024 Patchetts Green Bridleways Trust. File reference: EC381. HCC reference: EH/1.

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