BBC Countryfile Magazine

03 ESSEX CHAFFORD GORGES

5 miles/8km

3 hours

Moderate

122m

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Standing defiant against the infrastructure lining the M25 sits the 80-hectare Chafford Gorges Nature Park, where over 150 years of quarrying has revealed layers of chalk

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