This stroll begins with a semi-circumnavigation of Epping station’s voluminous car park. The entrance to the footpath which skirts the parking lot is almost invisible just a tad to the right of the vehicle entrance.
After a long haul around the nobby views of parked cars, the path takes a change of direction and a hike up to meet Centre Drive. Turn left here and find a road called Woodland Grove. On the opposite side to Woodland Grove’s entrance, is a small pathway which we need to take.
Follow this path until we come across a path leading to the left. Take this and it emerges onto Broadoaks – a road. Follow Broadoaks until we come across a pond. Skirt around the left of this water and we reach Bell Common.
There’s no easy way to direct you now using text. But you now need to find a way across the Common to a path which exists onto Ivy Chimneys Road, beside Ivy Chimneys Primary School.
Turn left onto Ivy Chimneys Road and find a path on the opposite side of the road and opposite the school.
This route, once taken, becomes a lot more straightforward. A couple of miles, including a bridge over the M25 and a dogleg soon after, on the same rural footpath and you reach the edge of Theydon Bois’s urban area.
Find the pathway which runs along the back of Duke’s Avenue. A fair distance along this you are able to emerge onto aforesaid Duke’s Avenue and the road it is renamed to – Forest Drive. You can follow this into the centre of Theydon Bois and find the station.