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Harlow: Walk around Tillwicks Road playing field

Difficulty Easy Access

Walking time 30 minutes

Length 1.6km / 1.0mi

Route developer: Geoff Sharman

Route checker: Joan Miller

Start location Keats House Health Centre
Route Summary A walk on roads and cycle paths with the opportunity to see three items on the Harlow Sculpture Trail
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Getting there

There is a car park with the first hour free opposite the health centre.

Buses 4, 392, 555 and E20 stop close by.

Description

[1] Leave Keats House and cross The Fairway to walk straight up the road opposite with garages on the right and the car park on the left.. Pass the Poplar Kitten public house and the Luhteran Church of the Redeemer, both on the left.

[2] At the T-junction turn left into Tilegate Road and cross the road at a safe point to reach another T-junction.

[3] Turn right and pass a row of houses on the right to reach a sign for a cycle track to the town centre.

[4] Turn Right onto the cycle track and follow it across a road after which there are some allotments on the right. Stop at the end of the allotments.  A few yards after the allotments there is a bridge over a ditch on the left leading into a housing estate, if you get to this bridge, you have gone too far.

[5] Turn right onto a footpath beside the allotments and follow it to reach a playing field with a children's playground straight ahead. Walk around the left hand edge of the fence which encloses the children's playground and continue to meet a tarmac path. Turn left on this path and continue with a fence on the left and the field on the right. This route may be unsuitable for wheelchairs ans pushchairs as it is on unpaved paths and grass. There is an alternative route on paved paths as listed below.

From waypoint [5] continue straight ahead until reaching a paved footpath on the right leading to some houses. When the path reaches a road (Church Leys) turrn right and follow the road as it turns left and left again. Look for a footpath on the right just after house number 79. follow this path up to rejoin the original route just after waypoint [6]

[6] Reach a path junction with some houses straight ahead and follow the path round to the right to cross the field.

[7] Just before the gap in the hedge at the far side of the field turn right to follow the path with the hedge on the left and the field on the right.

[8] Soon after the path passes a line of concrete bollards, it comes to a T junction near . On the far side of the car park ahead of you is an Esso Station, on the corner of Tillwicks Road and Tilegate Road. Turn right to follow the path in front of Tye Green Indoor Bowls club, with the car park on the left. Turn left to follow the edge of the car park and turn right into Tilegate Road. Walk along Tilegate Road until reaching a zebra crossing.

Visit the library to see the sculpture

[9] Cross the road and go straight ahead into the Bush Fair shopping centre. Turn right in the shopping centre, down the slope, to head towards the Co-op supermarket. Exit the shopping centre to the right of the Co-op and turn left to return to Keats House which is straight ahead.

Look for the sculptures in the shopping centre and health centre

Be aware of cyclists and always keep to the pedestrian side of cycle tracks

 

POI information

 A Children's playground

B Sculpture

Six Cubes by Shelley Fausett

Bronze

1972
Height 250 cm
Bush Fair Shopping Precinct

This column of misshapen cubes dates from 1972 and was acquired by the Trust in 1983. It is typical of Fausset's sculpture as he often created columns or shapes from modular abstract forms, some of which were interchangeable. Each of the fifteen inch square surfaces show tool marks from the rasp used to work the original plaster.

C Sculpture by Clare Guest

Cat mask (1)

Bog oak.
Carved
1996
105 x 70 x 15 cm Inside Tye Green Library, near entrance.

D Sculpture by Angela Godfrey

Grecian Urn Two Vertical Forms
Portland Stone
2000
Height 150 cm
Keats House Health Centre
Owned by the Harlow Health Centres Trust Ltd

The Health Centre is named after the poet John Keats who trained as a doctor. The Keats poem Ode to a Grecian Urn provided the artist with a starting point. The sculpture is viewed mainly from the two separate doctors' surgeries on either side of the atrium, with text from two other Keats poems carved in relief on each part, a complete quotation being visible from either surgery.
 
All the above sculptures are part of Harlow Sculpture Trail
http://www.visitharlow.com/places-to-visit--things-to-do/harlow-sculpture-collection/the-collection

 

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  • Footbridge over ditch beside cycle track
    Footbridge over ditch beside cycle track
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  • Take right hand footpath at waypoint [6]
    Take right hand footpath at waypoint [6]
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  • Tye Green Library
    Tye Green Library
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  • Bush Fair Shopping Centre
    Bush Fair Shopping Centre
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