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Harlow: Walk through Tye Green Village

Difficulty Easy Access

Walking time 34 minutes

Length 1.9km / 1.2mi

Route developer: Geoff Sharman

Route checker: Joan Miller

Start location Keats House Health Centre
Route Summary A walk on roads and cycle tracks through Tye Green Village
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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 turn left to walk to the end of The Fairway at the junction with Tawneys Road.

[2] Carefully cross Tawneys Road and turn right to walk towards a bus shelter on the left. Pass the Poplar Kitten public house on the right to reach Tye Green Village on the left.

[3] Turn left into Tye Green Village and pass a children's playground on the rght, crossing Primrose Field on the left. Cross the road at a safe point and continue along Tye Green Village passing several side turnings until the road bears round to the left. After the bend, with the end of the road in sight, look for a small black post marking the start of a cycle path on the right. Hidden in the bushes is a cycle path signpost to Passmores, Staple tye and Town centre.

[4] Turn right to follow the cycle track to reach a junction  signposted Staple tye and passmores to the left and Town Centre to the right. Turn right and continue on the cycle track until reaching a footpath on the right signposted to Tye Green.

[5] Turn right to follow the footpath taking the left hand path before reaching a gate. The path then bears right with houses on the right and a fence on the left. Continue to the junction with a road.

[6] Turn right onto Rushes Mead following it as it bends round to the left and continue to the end where it meets Tawneys Road.

[7] Carefully cross Tawneys Road and turn right. Pass St. Stephen's Church on the left and then the Poplar Kitten and the Lutheran Churh of the Redeemer, both on the left. Continue to the junction with The Fairway, turn left and cross the road to return to Keats House.

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

POI information

A Children's playground

B Tye Green Village

Sir Frederick Gibberd drew up the plans for the New Town of Harlow in 1947. Tye Green was one of many villages swallowed by the development. and contains several old original houses. 

C  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.
 
Part of Harlow Sculpture Trail
http://www.visitharlow.com/places-to-visit--things-to-do/harlow-sculpture-collection/the-collection
Notes No details available.
Acknowledgements No details available.
  • Fountains Farm House in Tye Green Village
    Fountains Farm House in Tye Green Village
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  • Start of cycle track off Tye Green Village
    Start of cycle track off Tye Green Village
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  • Take left hand path after waypoint [5]
    Take left hand path after waypoint [5]
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